Psy 228 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

individual differences - correct answer Branch of psychology devoted to studying the factors that make people unique individuals Correlation coefficient - correct answer Index of association or relationship between two variables. Range: -1.0 . . . . -0.5 . . . . 0.0 . . . . 0.5 . . . . 1.0 Positive correlation: - correct answer As variable A increase...

What is a schema? - a cognitive structure that organizes knowledge, experience, & expectations about one's environment. Ppl have schemas for most every concept in their experience. What is a script? - a schema that guides behavior in social situations. Exs: How to behave at a restaurant. What happens at a meeting. What to do in an emergency. Specifies the roles and actions of all participants. How do schemas and scripts pertain to personality theory? - Everyone's schema's and scripts...

PSY 228 Final Exam with Questions and Answers Describe Martin Seligman's research on learned helplessness ANSWER -Martin Seligman discovered that administrating shocks to restrained dogs lead to the dogs acting helpless. -It is not the shock that makes the dogs helpless, it is the restraint that makes the dogs helpless. - the dogs learn that they have no control over the situation AKA Learned Helplessness Describe how Learned Helplessness relates to optimism and pessimism ANSWER -Optimi...

Chapter 5: - correct answer Cognitive Development in Infancy (138) 1) Piaget's Theory of Infant Development (140) - correct answer includes what infants know. he saught to discover how children at different points in their development think about the world and how systematic changes in their thinking occur. Cognitive processes (141) - correct answer ...

Personality meaning - correct answer a unique pattern of psychological and behavioral characteristics. How we respond to our personal and social environment personality is reflected by - correct answer consistency in behavioral reactions across situations personality predictions - correct answer through personality psych we can use self reports to...

Walter Mischel - correct answer examined size of relationships btw traits and behaviors in specific situations Criticism of Mischel - correct answer Behavior is multiply determined Behavior doesn't cease it varies Small correlations aren't unimportant Describes general behavior Aggregate - correct answer average data Vogel, Seem, and Clark - c...

The Trait Approach - correct answer Study of Personality that is based on meaningful adjectives that describe human behavior. These adjectives are then represented as a dimension along which people vary. Ppl are then scaled along that trait dimension. Raymond Cattell - correct answer Took thousands of adjectives that describe behavior. Had a large number of people rated on those dimensions. fact...

Personality - correct answer Branch of psychology that studies factors that make people unique (individual differences) Fudamental questions - correct answer What does it mean to be a person? How do we understand people as unique individuals? What is the nature of the "self"? 8 basic aspects of personality - correct answer -Unconscious aspects -Ego...

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