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GRE SUBJECT TEST- PSYCHOLOGY STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS Id - instincts Who's theory is based on Id, Ego, and Superego? - Freud What is behaviorism? - study of observable behavior Watson's learning theory - classical conditioning classical conditioning - a type of learning in...

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GRE SUBJECT TEST- PSYCHOLOGY
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Id - ✔✔instincts


Who's theory is based on Id, Ego, and Superego? - ✔✔Freud


What is behaviorism? - ✔✔study of observable behavior


Watson's learning theory - ✔✔classical conditioning


classical conditioning - ✔✔a type of learning in which one learns to link two or more

stimuli and anticipate events


operant conditioning - ✔✔the learning of voluntary behavior through the effects of

pleasant and unpleasant consequences to responses


B.F. Skinner - ✔✔Behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning by

training pigeons and rats


Skinner's Reinforcement Theory - ✔✔-Positive reinforcement




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,-Avoidance learning = Negative reinforcement


-Punishment


-Extinction


social cognitive theory - ✔✔Bandura's theory of personality that emphasizes both

cognition and learning as sources of individual differences in personality


Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory - ✔✔behavior, environment, and cognition are the

key factors in development


Vgotsky - ✔✔developed "zone of proximal development" theory. Must work at

appropriate development level- not to hard or to easy- in order to learn


Vgotsky's Sociocultural Theory - ✔✔emphasizes how cognitive development proceeds

as a result of social interactions between members of a culture


Piaget's stages of cognitive development - ✔✔1. sensorimotor


2. preoperational


3. concrete operational


4. formal operational


Qualitative vs. Quantitative - ✔✔- number/statistics vs. descriptions from "being in the

field" (observations). qualitative- descriptive. quantitative- researchable




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, Behavorial epigenetics - ✔✔life experiences, especially early in life, have long-lasting

effects on behavior


Teratogens - ✔✔Agents that damage the process of development, such as drugs and

viruses


two hemispheres - ✔✔right and left


What does the right hemisphere control? - ✔✔left side of the body


spatial orientation, creativity, facial recognition, music, dream imagery, philosophy and

intuition


What does the left hemisphere control? - ✔✔right side of body


math, logic, analytical processing


broca's area (all speech)


occipital lobe - ✔✔visual processing


temporal lobe - ✔✔A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for hearing and language.


parietal lobe - ✔✔receives sensory input for touch and body position


frontal lobe - ✔✔The lobe at the front of the brain associated with movement, speech,

and impulsive behavior.




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