Complete and Comprehensive PSYCH 3010 Q&A Bundle

For her masters thesis, LaTonya is planning to observe middle school students during their lunch breaks. The school is allowing LaTonya to observe the students while she is in an office overlooking the cafeteria, and students will not be aware that LaTonya is observing them. This is study is Disguis...

Professor Smarties is interested in studying the social psychological principle of anonymity in children. To accomplish this goal, a camera is set up at the front door of a house. During Halloween, a bowl of candy is placed outside of a house with a note instructing trick-or-treaters to take one pie...

A child wakes suddenly after sleeping for a couple of hours, is terrified and shows significant autonomic activity, such as a racing heart rate and dilated pupils. When questioned, the child cannot remember what frightened her. It is likely the child has just woken from _______ sleep. stage 3 Becau...

Direction of a relationship tells us (a) the strength of a relationship and (b) the direction of a relationship Strength of a relationship Small r = .10 to .30 Medium r = .30 to .50 Large r = .50 to 1.00 Range restriction Correlations became artificially weak (attenuates) if there is little variat...

Learning Long-term change in mental representations or associations due to experience. Cognitive Psychology a large body of research that addresses various mental phenomena that underlie human behavior, including perception, memory, forgetting, and reasoning. Cognitive processes the specific thing...

Individual differences variations among people in their thinking, emotion, personality, and behavior; in different domains, intelligence, cognitive styles, and dispositions Differentiated Instruction instruction that is tailored to align with each student's current knowledge, skills, and needs In...

Red-green colorblindness is most common in Males All of the following cranial nerves move the eyes except vestibulocochlear According to the McGill Pain Questionnaire, describing a "shooting" pain in your arm uses which dimension(s) of pain? Sensory-discriminative Which body part is not highly ...

Sarah heard a report on the national news that eggs are bad for one's health. Because the news station seemed to be a credible source, she concluded that this must be true and began to tell her family and friends not to eat eggs. Sarah's knowledge was based on? Authority Thomas accidentally put o...

Conditional Y values are normally distributed around the regression line Homoscedasticity: variance of Y values are constant across different values of Ŷ (homogeneity of variance) No linear relationship between Ŷ and errors of prediction Independence of errors assumptions of multiple regression - ...

A researcher examined the release of endorphins in the brain as a function of chocolate consumption (X1), genuine compliments (X2), and the interaction between these two continuous variables (X1X2). She expects that the beneficial effect of chocolate will be evident for those individuals who are pro...

Social Cognitive Theory -Learning occurs as a result of social interaction. -rooted in behaviorism -adds cognitive processes - reasoning, motivation Social Cognitive View of Reinforcement and Punishment Expectations -Must expect punishment or reinforcement -Response-reinforcement contingency Vicar...

Attrition threat in a repeated-measures experiment or quasi-experiment, a threat to internal validity that occurs when a systematic type of participant drops out of a study before it ends Ceiling effects an experimental design problem in which independent variable groups score almost the same on a ...

What percent of children and adolescents have an anxiety disorder? 8-29% What do the anxiety disorders of young children look like? behavioral and somatic rather than cognitive. Symptoms such as clinging, sleep difficulties and stomach pains What % of children have Separation Anxiety Disorder? 4-1...

What are marginal means? Marginal means for one factor are the means for that factor averaged across all levels of the other factor What are cell means? Means for a factor across all levels of the other factor In a graph of a 2-way factorial ANOVA how would you identify the simple effects of each ...

Abnormal Psychology The scientific study of abnormal behavior in an effort to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning. Clinical scientists gather information and clinical practitioners asses and treat. Defining abnormality Many definitions have been proposed and none...

Conceptual definitions how you define a concept Operational definitions defining concepts according to the operations used to attain or measure them Three common types of measures: self-report measure Observational (behavioral) measure Physiological measure Categorical (qualitative, nominal) meas...

Hypothesis or prediction: a statement of the specific relationship between a study's variables that the researcher expects to observe if a theory is accurat Theory a statement or set of statements that describes general principles about how variables relate to one another Data a set of observatio...

Behavioral neuroscience the field that relates behavior to bodily processes Localization of function (example) concept that different brain regions specialize in specific behaviors, paul broca noted that damage to a particular region of the left side of the brain causes problems with speech produ...

Trait-Descriptive Adjectives Words that describe traits, attributes of a person that are reasonably characteristic of the individual and potentially last over long periods of time Personality Set of psychological traits and mechanisms within an individual that are organized, relatively enduring, an...

Quantitative Research Research yielding information that is inherently numerical in nature and can easily be reduced to numbers. Examples of Quantitative Research Might provide information about students' scores on achievement tests, students' responses to rating-scale questionnaires, or school d...