HPS111 Exam Questions And Accurate Answers psychology - Answer the scientific study of behaviour behaviour - Answer organisms observable actions and responses to the en vironment - not exclusively human science - Answer an incremental process for knowledge aquisitio n based on measurement and testing scientific method - Answer a method of procedure consisting in sys tematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testin g, and modification of hypotheses behavioural psychologist - Answer focused on observable behaviou rs and their relationship with environmental factors cognitive psychologist - Answer interested in mental processes - t hinking, attention and memory social psychology - Answer concerned with how we influence one anot her and operate in societies - norms, culture and conflict psychology and health - Answer behavioral processes in health, illn ess, and healthcare - concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, an d cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness educational psychology - Answer working in education study the so cial, emotional and cognitive processes involved in learning and apply their findings t o improve the learning process automatic responses - Answer reflexes and instincts - allow individuals t o respond to stimuli - move away from hot things, avoid dark areas at night reflex - Answer simple, automatic and near instantaneous reaction to stimuli - one stimulus, one simple response instinct - Answer tendency of an organism to show more complex behaviours (or patterns of behaviour) in response to stimuli fight, flight, freeze - Answer increased heart rate, shaking, sweating and tunnel vision, response to stress or fear - automatic nervous system floods bo dy with adrenaline, prepares the body to fight or flee, can also cause a freeze comparative psychology - Answer study of animals in order to compa re with humans diving reflex - Answer makes babies hold their breath underwater a nd slows heart rate, very reliable reflex, seen also in sheep, rabbits, rats and aquatic anima ls rooting reflex - Answer baby turns to face and object that brushe s its cheeck sucking reflex - Answer babies sucking on anything that touche s the roof of their mouth theory - Answer an idea based around relevant knowledge th at is not yet proven correct or incorrect natural selection - Answer theory of evolution that ancestors who su rvive pass on reflexes that they had, as they 'aided' in their survival selection pressure - Answer where the environment is biased in fa vour of one characteristic, dark moth blending into dark moss therefore t he light moths die evolution backwards looking - Answer species adapt to what was b est for their predecessors, not whats best for current surviv al elements of emotion - Answer ABC - activation, behaviour, cognitio n -psychological activation = energy -behavioural response to environment -cognitive appraisal = determine feeling expressive behaviour - Answer signal the behaviour being felt - fr owning, smiling - representation of internal feelings instrumental behaviour - Answer doing something about the emo tion being felt - honking the horn, yelling affect - Answer current feelinfs mood - Answer feelings over a longer period of time - week, d ays emotions are primitive - Answer considered so because theyre innate an d consistent across cultures cultural display rules - Answer dictate the show of emotions, whet her the emotions are encouraged / discouraged based on cultural teaching and belief s - taught through modelling and rewarding / punishing shows basic drives - Answer innate pressure to do something, find foo d, survive, pass on genetics general purpose of emotion - Answer -physiologically adaptive - fear, open eyes wide, let in more light, see better, get more info -social signalling - disgust, screw face up, signals to others to do th e same, your family, tribe, friends men jealousy - Answer couldnt be sure baby was theirs and would l ook for signs of cheating, maximise reproductive outcomes, pass on your kid women jealousy - Answer look for clues of emotional infidelity, don t want to be left raising a child alone, maximise outcomes by ensuring you and ba by survive disgust and morality connection - Answer disgust sensitivity - quic ker a person responds to disgust, higher morality, possibly linked to incest and maint aining genetic variety fast fear - Answer in response to a stimulus, generally panic respo nse, immediate, sensory information goes from the thalamus to the amygdala slow fear - Answer become alarmed after thinking about the fea r, sensory information goes from the thalamus to the cortex then to the amygdala, co rtex allows for thinking / processing james-lange theory of emotions - Answer emotions come last, you have the increased heart rate, and then label the emotion, theorists argue you wouldnt experience the emotion without the expressive behaviour canon-bard theory of emotions - Answer argue that bodily reac tions arent that fast, cut nerves of animals and they were still able to feel, suggests theres a process which initiates both the physiological reaction and cognitive response arrousal - Answer = physiological response appraisal - Answer = cognitive labelling