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Spreading Activation: correct answers False memories of words that are semantically or associatively related to studied words.
Recency Effect: correct answers Better memory of things that happened most recently.
Proactive Interference: correct answers The interference of information from long...
HB - MCAT - Psychological, Social, and Biological
Foundations of Behavior || Already Graded A+.
Spreading Activation: correct answers False memories of words that are semantically or
associatively related to studied words.
Recency Effect: correct answers Better memory of things that happened most recently.
Proactive Interference: correct answers The interference of information from long term memory
with new information.
Social Reproduction: correct answers The perpetuation of inequalities through social institutions
such as education or the economy.
Meritocracy correct answers Reward according to individual talent or effort.
Social stratification: correct answers objective hierarchy in a society, often more specifically
addresses the class-biased hierarchy.
Cultural relativism correct answers evaluation of another culture based on that cultures standards
From the perspective of conflict theory, which pair of factors would be assumed to have the
greatest impact on patients relationships with their doctors?
A) Norms and Rituals
B) Power and Status
C) Aggression and attachment
D) conformity and assimilation. correct answers B) Power and Status.
Conflict theory: Capital, power, and status are the driving forces in society.
Anomie correct answers A lack of social norms, which leads to a breakdown int he connection
between and individual and their community.
Observational Learning correct answers Learning through imitation
Operant conditioning correct answers learning through consequences of responses
Classical Conditioning correct answers associating reflexes with previously neutral stimuli.
Latent Learning correct answers Learning without an explicit change in behavior.
How would the James-Lange theory of emotion explain the aggressive emotions experienced by
the participants in the experimental condition? Participants experience physiological arousal
from watching violent programs and: correct answers This arousal is followed by aggressive
emotions.
, James-Lange theory of emotion suggests that physiological arousal preceded the experiencing of
emotions.
Canon-Bard Theory states that: correct answers Physiological arousal and emotions are
experienced simultaneously.
Helping to instill norms and values related to violence and violent behavior, media exposure is
an aspect of what process? correct answers Socialization
Popular media is an agent of socialization for norms and values.
Assimilation is the process through which: correct answers immigrants or minority groups take
up aspects of the mainstream culture.
Stratification correct answers Objective position within social hierarchy.
Between 5-6 vs. 8-9 year olds, what concept do the 8-9 year olds have but the 5-6 year olds do
not have, according to an experiment developed by Piaget. correct answers 5-6 year olds have
not developed the concept of conservation.
Ie: Piaget found this by asking 5-6 years olds to decide whether a given quantity of a liquid
changes if it is poured from a narrow container to a wide container.
In the World Systems Theory, what characterizes a core nation? correct answers In the World
Systems Theory, a CORE nation is more economically developed with strong governments and
institutions
In the World Systems Theory, what characterizes a periphery nation? correct answers In the
World Systems Theory, Periphery Nations are less economically developed with weak
governments and institutions.
According to Mead, the spontaneous and autonomous part of the unified self is the: correct
answers I.
The me is the part of the self that is formed in the interaction with others and the general social
environment. the Id and the Ego are terms used by Freud, not Mead.
Stimulus Generalization: correct answers generalizing an attribute about a particular situation as
if that is the main component of the situation.
IE: fearing all confined spaces because a traumatic experience happened in a subway car.
Unconditioned response: correct answers The response to an event that is naturally fear arousing.
(IE: not conditioned/learned)
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