PSYC 1010 Q&A Bundle

Accommodation developed by psychologist Jean Piaget to describe what occurs when new information or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas. Rather than make the new information fit into an existing schema, you change the schema in order to accommodate the new information. Agreeablene...

Functionalism Studies how consciousness changes according to the environment. - William James Gestalt psychology the study of how people preceive information (hear,see,etc) Behaviorism (theory) study that all behavior is received through conditioning. Cognitive approach deals with mental processe...

When talking with my friend recently, he told me about how last weekend he saw his son take his toys and put them in two groups. In one group were the things that were "alive" (like dolls, stuffed animals etc.) and in the other group were things that were not alive (ping pong rackets, toy furnitur...

Is known as the father of psychology Wilhelm Wundt Mary Cover Jones achieved counterconditioning with "Little Peter" by using food The belief that every experience can be broken down into its individual emotions and sensations is known as structuralism Freud proposed that there is a(n) _____ mi...

Dr. Wolfe spent the last year studying a man named Jeremy. Jeremy had a stroke that destroyed a part of his brain called the hippocampus. Since his injury, Jeremy cannot create new memories of anything that has happened to him. The type of research Dr. Wolfe is engaged in is a(n) a. experiment. b. s...

Introspection refers to a process by which someone examines ________ as objectively as possible. her own conscious experience Psychoanalytic theory focuses on ________ and early childhood experiences. a person's unconscious According to William James, the purpose of psychology was to ________. st...

Correlation equals causation. TRUE/FALSE False Correlation: ice cream sales and robberies Causation: heat You are a horrible multitasker. True or False True -Your have to have 100% focus on something in order to fully comprehend it negative correlation indicates that one variable negatively impact...

Social psychology focuses on ___ in predicting human behavior. situational factors Making internal attributions for your successes and making external attributions for your failures. self-serving bias Collectivist cultures are to __ as individualistic cultures are to ___. situational; dispositiona...

Psychology science of the mind and behavior Dualism the idea that the world is composed if 2 distinct categories of substance: mental substance (the should) and physical substance (the body) Descartes - own model of dualism - animals have no soul, so much behavior does not require a soul - body ca...

Refractory Period When the ions of a neuron are imbalanced, the neuron cannot initiate another action potential, and is in a False When you feel something more intensely it is because the neurons are firing more intensely Endocrine System The body's means of chemical communication is the Selecti...

_______ is the technique used to try to extract the structure of intelligence from a set of correlations. Factor analysis If you give your dog a biscuit every fifth time he plays dead, what reinforcement schedule is he on? Fixed ratio Edward Thorndike conducted an experiment which involved putting...

Recall type of retrieval that requires you to produce an item from memory in response to a cue or question Recognition type of retrieval that requires you to judge whether you have encountered a stimulus previously Acquisition the processes of gaining new information and placing it in memory, enco...

Three roadblocks to critical thinking hindsight bias, overconfidence, perceiving patterns in random events This _______ ______ (also known as the i-knew-it-all-along phenomenon) is easy to demonstrate by giving half the members of a group some purported psychological finding, and giving the other h...

In Watson's classic studies with a baby, rats became conditioned stimuli for fear A psychologist wants to see how much caffeine benefits students who have not slept well. She gives some students strong coffee and other students decaffeinated coffee (but doesn't tell them which they get!). After a...

What is Psychology? The science of BEHAVIOR and MENTAL PROCESSES -scientific method -critcally thinking Observable behavior (OVERT) Behaviors that can be obviously seen by others (speech and physical movement) Internal mental processes (COVERT) hidden/hard to find, cannot be directly observed (...

What is abnormal behavior? deviant, MALADAPTIVE, or personally distressful over a long period of time What is maladaptive behavior? interferes with one's ability to function effectively What is the psychological approach? emphasizes the contributions of experiences, thoughts, emotions, and person...