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PSYC 104 Questions And Correct Answers Latest Version
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- PSYC 104
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PSYC 104 Questions And Correct AnswersLatest Version
social psychology ANS✔✔ The scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and
behaviors of individuals in social situations
Explaining behavior is the goal of social psychology.
personality psychology ANS✔✔ Focuses on how differences between
individuals(e.g., traits) can influence their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
cognitive psychology ANS✔✔ focuses on how people perceive, think about,
and remember aspects of the world
sociology ANS✔✔ Focuses on behaviors of communities and groups, not on
individuals' behaviors
phenomenology ANS✔✔ attempts to systematically explore and describe
how ordinary people say they experience the world
channel factor "nudges" ANS✔✔ situational circumstances that appear
unimportant on the surface but that can have strong effects on behavior—
facilitating it, blocking it, or guiding it in a particular direction.
naive psychology ANS✔✔ what people's "common sense" ideas about each
other are
elemental approach ANS✔✔ breaks scientific problems down into pieces and
analyzes the pieces in separate detail before combining them.
, holistic approach ANS✔✔ analyzes the pieces in the context of other pieces
and focuses on the entire configuration of relationships among them.
algebraic model ANS✔✔ takes each individual trait, evaluates it in isolation,
and combines the evaluations into a summary evaluation.
Configural model ANS✔✔ hypothesizes that people form a unified overall
impression of other people; the unifying forces shape individual elements to
bring them in line with the overall impression.
automatic thinking ANS✔✔ unintentional, uncontrollable, involuntary,
unconscious (outside awareness), efficient, autonomous, and fast responses.
chronic accesability ANS✔✔ habitual processing by particular categories or
concepts, as if chronically primed
-depends on person (role, personality, culture, practice)
proceduralization ANS✔✔ the development of automaticity that occurs
through practice
subliminal priming ANS✔✔ occurs when a concept is activated by the
environment, but at exposure times below conscious awareness.
working self-concept ANS✔✔ The aspect of self that influences ongoing
thought and behavior in a given moment in a certain context (e.g. daughter,
wife, mom, friend, researcher, graduate student... )
trait self-esteem ANS✔✔ A person's enduring level of self-regard across time
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