PSYC 1101 Exam Questions and Correct Answers

What is psychology? the study of the mind through the study of behavior Explain how experimental design is crucial to the study of psychology through the physics test example. Just because a person does well on a physics test doe snot mean they actually understood the material. There could have been multiple ways that the could have modeled the right behavior(cheating, electrical signals to the brain, etc). We make inferences on the behavior that we observe thus experimental design is crucial because it allows us to understand the reasoning behind certain behaviors. What are electrically triggered images? surgeons stimulating parts of the brain so that patient began seeing images that are not there. What influences behavior? what influences your behavior is anything that previously happened leading upon to the behavior as well as your distant past. Difference between slow wave sleep and rem sleep slow wave(longer wave lengths) is the restorative sleep that heals the body and stops someone from being physically tired. Rem sleep heals the mind and keeps a person from being psychotic or irritable. What are the three things that influence dreams? the effects of culture, internal conflict, and individual differences. Give an example of the effects of dreams on culture aboriginals never have dreams about being naked because wearing minimal clothing in their culture is normal. Also people of western Ghana having drams of being chased by a cow because of the spiritual significance cow have in their culture. Explain Freud's take on internal conflict in dreams. Freud argued that we have an id ego and superego. And during the dream state the id takes over because during the day the id (animalistic nature) is repressed by the ego and superego. Thus is the explanation behind weird dreams like having sexual relations with your mother or your father dying. Because the ego is not fully present in the dreaming state. Explain the concept of individual differences in dreaming. the theory that we dream about things that are common in our everyday life for example an engineer having a dream about building a bridge