Psychology 105 Tests Bundle

What has been a concern since the first meeting of the APA? Answer Misconceptions of psychology What percentage of people believe scientific approach benefits understanding of human behavior? Answer 50% What is the good news of misconceptions of psychology? Answer There is an increased r...

What is counseling psychology? - Answer a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being How is counseling psychology different to clinical? - Answer Counseling psychology focuses on career/voca...

Sense of self: - Answer unique sense of identity influenced by social, cultural, and psychological experiences. 1. Social cognition: - Answer refers to how we form impressions of other people, how we interpret the meaning of other people's behavior, and how our behavior is affected by our at...

What is the takeaway from the baby head-turning experiment? - Answer Babies turned their neck, working harder to see a face on a paddle over random designs. Suggests babies have a preference for human faces, are ready to form relationships What is the still-face paradigm? - Answer -Mom's do...

what is the nature vs nurture debate? - Answer nature was is the idea that knowledge is present at birth (created by Plato) nurture is the idea that knowledge is gained through experience (Aristotle) what is the moral definition of nature vs nurture? - Answer Rousseau says that people are bo...

Basic human emotions - Answer (5) Fear, sadness, happiness, anger, disgust Natural Observation - Answer -Non laboratory setting, but many important behaviors are infrequent -behavior may also be affected by the presence of the observer -Requires RATER AGREEMENT Emotional Expression in In...

what do all babies have in common? - Answer caregivers social and cultural network - Answer where learning happens- connected to various people through social relationships children's general abilities when born include: - Answer ability to form relationships, preference for human speec...

By the end of the first year, what might we expect to see in terms of body growth (height and weight)? - Answer Height- 32 in. -9 months: "baby fat" peaks- helps maintain body temp. -Cephalocaudal trend: head develops more rapidly than the lower part of the body What about by the end of the...

Research suggests that stress-producing events are? - Answer - Universal _______ is the term used to describe physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are threatening or challenging. - Answer - Stress The tendency to overestimate people's fragility and under...

Psychology - Answer The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Aristotle - Answer The first Western thinker to study psychological topics. He combined the logic of philosophy and empirical observation. De Anima is regarded as the first systematic treatise on psychology. Its topics...

When people rely on mental shortcuts to reach a conclusion or make a decision, they often fail to take into account how common a behaviour or characteristic is in general. This kind of information is called the __________ by psychological scientists. a) schematome b) base rate c) ground level ...

Developmental psychology - Answer The study of how behaviour changes over an individual's lifespan Post Hoc Fallacy - Answer (A then B) != (A causes B) Bidirectional Influences - Answer Development influences experiences, experiences influence development Cohort Effect - Answer Dif...

Psychology - Answer the scientific study of behavior and mental processes Origins - Answer trace back to philosophy and physiology Origins: Aristotle - Answer wrote about dreams, memory, sleep Nature vs. Nurture - Answer Do your genes or environment have a bigger impact on you Re...

The most commonly used IQ test in the United States is the: - Answer Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV. Approximately _____ of the population have an IQ score between 85 and 115. - Answer 68% Higher intelligence is related to the thickness of the _____. - Answer cerebral cortex Below ...