PSY 331 Exam Elaborations Bundle 2024

authoritative parenting - Correct Answer encourages children to be independent but still places limits and controls on their actions -best type of parenting, gives child most freedom & access to self-actualizatio permissive parenting - Correct Answer style of parenting in which parent makes few,...

Describe the parts of the health belief model - Correct AnswerPerceived susceptibility = i worry about skin cancer Perceived severity of health threat = I enjoy being outdoors, so developing skin cancer is a very real possibility for me Perceived benefits of prevention minus perceived barriers = w...

Dictionary definition: Personality - Correct Answer State of being a person, characteristics and qualities that form a persons distinctive character, sum of persons physical, mental, emotional and social characteristics Psychological definition: Personality - Correct Answer Unique & relatively en...

Descriptive Statistics - Correct Answer Describe, summarize, and tabulate the data Frequency Distribution - Correct Answer An arrangement of data that indicates how often a particular score or observation occurs. Cumulative Frequency - Correct Answer a running total of frequencies Apparent ...

projective test - Correct Answer a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics objective test - Correct Answer unambiguous self-reports Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) - Correct Answer a projective tes...

Stress - Correct Answer organism's internal biological and psychological responses to external demands A by-product of poor coping Stress Factors - Correct Answer Children are extremely vulnerable genetic makeup exposure to early childhood stressors individual stress tolerance stressful exp...

Hans Eysenck - Correct Answer personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes, used introversion/extroversion What are the three basic personality dimensions? - Correct Answer 1. extraversion-introversion 2. neuroticism 3. psychoticism Extraversion - Correct An...

What are the basic concepts in Cognitive Development? cognition and development Structure refers to the mental processes happening within, which determines a particular function to occur function of mental structures promotes them to change cognition is a mental process used to think and solve pr...

Perception - Correct Answer Process of organizing and interpreting our senses perceptual set - Correct Answer What we expect to see based on our past experiences imperfect memory - Correct Answer Distortion of data: use of imagination to fill in the blanks How is truth found - Correct Answe...

Valuing process in infants and adults - Correct Answer Infants: Organismic valuing process. Signals from the body, self-reliance, internal frame of reference. Adults: More complex (Roger's Theory) Fully Functioning Persons - Correct Answer Self actualizing people. Characteristics include: ...

Social Cognition - Correct Answer -thought suppression -how we think about the social world 2 Ways of social processing - Correct Answer Explicit and Implicit Explicit processing - Correct Answer -conscious -typically effortful -typically intentional -ex: complex math problem Implicit p...

Explain: Characteristics of anorexia nervosa. - Correct Answer - Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to a significantly low body weight in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health - Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat or persistent...

Variable - Correct Answer Class of outcomes that can take on more than one value dependent variable - Correct Answer Measure of behavior that reflects the effects of the independent variable (the outcomes of a research study) Frequency - Correct Answer Number of times that a behavior is perfor...

What factors influence consumer behavior? - 1. Cultural 2. Social 3. Personal 4. Psychological Cultural Factor - Come from society as a whole / the culture in which we live (ex. - United States, California, Orange County, Fullerton) Includes Cultural, Subcultural, and Social Class influenc...