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the most common cause of wrongful convictions - eyewitness error the 3 stages of memory - encoding, storage, retrieval how does distance affect encoding? - the farther witnesses are from the target, the less accurate they are are identifying the target how does emotional state (stress in particular) affect encoding? - high stress = less accuracy in identifying people weapon-focus effect - tendency for the presence of a weapon to draw attention to itself, impairing a witness's abilit...

1. Which glial are responsible for maintaining the integrity of the extracellular fluid that surrounds neurons? A) Oligodendrocytes B) Astrocytes C) Microglial cells D) Stellate cells - B) Astrocytes 2. At what point do the sensory axons from the periphery enter the spinal cord? A) Central nuclei B) Ventral nuclei C) Dorsal root ganglia D) Ventral white matter - C) Dorsal root ganglia 3. Some neurons have long axons that stretch from one part of the CNS to another. What are these c...

Main psychoanalytic psychologists/main themes - -Freud and Erikson -continuity and discontinuity -individual differences -nature and nurture Psychoanalytic Theories - child goes through stages, driven by biological maturation Freud - -behavior is driven by the need to satisfy basic drives -emphasis on the unconscious -emphasis on importance of early experience for later development Psychosexual theory - -at each stage, children encounter conflicts related to different erogenous z...

Patient H.M. (Henry Molaison) - A patient who, because of damage to medial temporal lobe structures, was unable to encode new declarative memories. But his skill learning was intact. Has anterograde amnesia where he cannot learn new information in long-term memory but still remembers older information learned prior to the damage. Medial temporal lobe - A region in the cortex that includes the hippocampus and plays a central role in memory processing. Anterograde amnesia - An inabilit...

How is Dichotic Listening studied? - by asking people to wear earphones; one message is presented to the left ear, and a different message is presented to the right ear. Summarize Kosslyn's classic research on distances in mental images and scanning times. Summarize Paivio's research using mental clocks and the angles formed by the two clock hands. Do these findings support the analog position or the propositional position? - Kosslyn -seems like ppl use analog code for simple figures, and ...

Children who do not fit into Ainsworth's three original categories now are typically classified as: - disorganized secure avoidant resistant disorganized In Bowlby's attachment theory, the secure base refers to: - a special setting developed for needy, dependent infants a comfortable and safe home setting the evolutionary roots of how children become attached to caregivers the haven of safety a caretaker provides that allows a child to explore the environment the haven of safety...

Developmental Psychology - - the scientific study of physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span - is the scientific study of age-related changes in behaviours, thinking, emotion, and personality. Domains of Development - 1) Physical Domain: includes changes in the size, shape, and characteristics of the body. 2: Cognitive Domain: includes changes in thinking, memory, problem-solving, and other intellectual skills. 3) Social/Emotional Domain: involves variables that are...

*Chapter 11: Interpersonal Attraction and Close Relationships* - What is the evidence for a good complexion being universally attractive? - having a good complexion is associated with having good health What kinds of faces are found to be universally attractive? (3 things) - 1. good complexion 2. bilateral symmetry 3. average sized facial features What is the evidence for bilateral symmetry being universally attractive? - having a symmetrical face and body indicates developmental stabi...

Weapon-focus effect - the tendency for the presence of a weapon to draw attention and impair a witness's ability to identify the culprit Cross-race identification bias - the tendency for people to be more accurate at recognizing members of their own racial group than of other groups Misinformation effect - the tendency for false postevent misinformation to become integrated into people's memory of an event Polygraph - a mechanical instrument that records psychological arousal from mul...

Unit 1 - In what year was the term software engineering coined by a NATO study group? - 1967 Why is so much of today's software not considered to have been engineered? - What is the life cycle of software engineering? - A life-cycle model is a description of the steps that should be performed when building a software product. What is the relationship between computer science and software engineering? - Name some of the problems resulting from team programming. - Interfacing pr...