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PY101 FINAL EXAM CHAP 11 Question and answers 100% correct PY101 FINAL EXAM CHAP 11-15 What is personality? (Chapter 11) - correct answer A person's pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving. What are the 2 main ways to measure personality? (Chapter 11) - correct answer Personality inventories: (people answer questions about themselves) Projective techniques: (people verbally respond to ambiguous stimuli) What is a personality inventory? (Chapter 11) - correct answer People ...

PY101 Questions with complete solution PY101 -- Exam #1 When Dawn brushes her teeth each morning, she gets a sticker. Behavior increase or decrease? Operant principle? Her brushing behavior is being _______? - correct answer Behavior is increased. Positively reinforced. Joel, the convict, was behaving so well that the prison guard removed his leg irons. Behavior increase or decrease? Operant principle? The convict's good behavior was _________. - correct answer Behavior is incr...

PY101 UAB Rothrock Question and answers rated A+ PY101 UAB Rothrock developmental psychology - correct answer study of physical, mental, social changes throughout ones lifetime. Research mostly on children Teratogens - correct answer agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm Stages of prenatal development in order - correct answer zygote 2wks, embryo 3-8wks, fetus 9-38wks Reflexes - correct answer un...

Py101 Question and answers rated A+ Py101 True/False Psychology's forerunners relied heavily on empirical evidence - correct answer false Credit for founding modern scientific psychology usually goes to ________ - correct answer Wilhem Wudnt Early psychologists who emphasized how behavior helps an organism adapt to its environment were known as ____________ - correct answer functionalists Anxious people often think about the future in distorted ways - correct answer co...

Dobias PY101 Final Exam Study Guide Question and answers rated A+ Dobias PY101 Final Exam Study Guide What are Absolute Thresholds? - correct answer Minimum intensity needed to detect a stimulus What are Binet and Simon Early Intelligence Tests? - correct answer First standardized intelligence test. What are Binocular and Monocular Depth Cues? - correct answer Cues for depth perception using both eyes vs one eye What are current Intelligence Tests WISC and WAIS? - correct ans...

UAB PY101 CH 8 Thinking and Intelligence Questions with complete solution UAB PY101 CH 8 Thinking and Intelligence thinking - correct answer the manipulation of mental representations of information we encounter in our environments. analogical representation - correct answer mental representations that have some of the physical characteristics of objects; usually refers to images (picture of the violin) symbolic representation - correct answer abstract mental representations th...

Chapter 6 PY101 Question with complete solution Chapter 6 PY101 In Pavlov's demonstration of classical conditioning, what was the neutral stimulus? - correct answer The tone During Pavlov's research on digestion, what spurred his interest and led to the discovery of classical conditioning? - correct answer Dogs would salivate before the meat powder was presented Pavlov demonstrated how learned associations were formed by: - correct answer demonstrating events in the organ...

PY101 Chapter Three Question and answers verified to pass PY101 Chapter Three Consciousness - correct answer A person's moment-by-moment awareness of your experiences both in the world around you and inside your own head Objective - correct answer This is when you consider information as an object that exists apart from your opinion on it. Meaning you can experience information for itself, by being unbiased and free of thoughts or feelings about the information—others experienc...

PY101 Test 1 Questions with complete solution PY101 Test 1 In the scientific method, a specific, testable prediction about a theory is called ________ - correct answer a hypothesis A set of interconnected ideas that psychologists use to explain prior research findings and to make predictions about the future is called (a)n _____ - correct answer a theory What recent advances have helped scientists to better understand the functions of the brain? - correct answer improved scannin...

PY101 Exam 1 UAB Question and answers correctly solved PY101 Exam 1 UAB What is psychology? - correct answer the scientific study of mind and behavior (basic and applied science) What is the mind? - correct answer the private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories and feelings Descartes and dualism - correct answer French philosopher who argued that body and mind are fundamentally different things. How mental activity can be reconciled and coordinated with physical ...