Psychology

What has been a concern since the first meeting of the APA? Answer Misconceptions of psychology What percentage of people believe scientific approach benefits understanding of human behavior? Answer 50% What is the good news of misconceptions of psychology? Answer There is an increased recognition of psychology as a science What is the public paradox of psychology Answer People want psychology to answer the "big questions" such as "am I normal?" or "how do I find true love?...

Thinking Definition - Answer any mental activity or processing of information, including learning, remembering, perceiving, communicating, believing, and deciding What is cognitive economy? - Answer The use of heuristics to reduce mental effort while still getting things right most of the time What are heuristics? - Answer Mental shortcuts, drawn from inferences, to increase thinking efficiency Can fast and frugal thinking be better than exhaustive analysis? - Answer Yes What is cogn...

What is the medical model correct answer: This model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. Diagnosis correct answer: involves distinguishing one illness from another. Etiology correct answer: Refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis correct answer: A forecast about the probable course of an illness. Deviance correct answer: people are often said to have a disorder because their behavior deviates from wha...

Activation Synthesis Theory - The theory suggesting that we turn random neural signals into dreams is _____ theory. a. Freudian b. the information processing c. the preserving neural pathways d. the activation synthesis information processing - Hahn tells his friends that he needs to go to sleep after their study session rather than studying all night because sleeping will help to consolidate his memory of what he learned. Hahn is a proponent of the _____ theory of sleep. a. evolutionar...

A-level PSYCHOLOGY 7182/1 Paper 1 Introductory topics in psychology Mark scheme June 2021 Version: 1.0 Final Mark Scheme Level of response marking instructions Level of response mark schemes are broken down into levels, each of which has a descriptor. The descriptor for the level shows the average performance for the level. There are marks in each level. Before you apply the mark scheme to a student’s answer read through the answer and annotate it (as instructed) to show the quali...