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PSYCHOLOGY 1101 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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psychology - ANSWER the scientific study of mind and behaviormind - ANSWER our private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts,
memories, and feelings
behaviour - ANSWER observable actions of human beings and nonhuman
animals
stimulus - ANSWER sensory input from the environment
Gestalt psychology is a psychological approach that emphasizes that we often
perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts
cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes, including
perception, thought, memory, and reasoning
evolutionary psychology explains mind and behavior in tens of the adaptive
value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection
social psychology - ANSWER a subfield of psychology that studies that causes
and consequences of interpersonal behavior
cultural psychology - ANSWER the study of how cultures reflect and shape the
psychological processes of their members
, validity - ANSWER the extent to which a measurement and a property are
conceptually related
reliability - ANSWER the tendency for a measure to produce the same
measurement whenever it is used to measure the same thing
power - ANSWER the ability of a measure to detect the concrete conditions
specified in the operational definition
demand characteristics - ANSWER those aspects of an observational setting
that cause people to behave as they think they should
double blind - ANSWER an observation whose true purpose is concealed from
both the observer and the person being observed
correlation coefficient - ANSWER the direction and strength of a correlation
which is signified by the letter r: ranges form -1 to 1
random assignment - ANSWER a procedure that uses a chance event to assign
participants to the experimental group or to the control group
parsimony - ANSWER describing results using the fewest number of
assumptions
blind study - ANSWER observer does not know actual purpose of experiment
placebo - ANSWER an inactive subject-sugar pill
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