CNS/Psych

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...

Why to use scientific method - Answer Reduces Various bias (puts distance between researcher and participant) and helps to provide better theories (can be rested against and holds strong ) Hindsight bias - Answer - "I knew it all along" - Make sense of anything with info we already have - Know what happens after it happens present/present bias - Answer We only consider the evidence that is currently present and not anything that isn't Ex: someone stops in the middle of the inte...

In order for 5 year old Zane to learn to read Japanese, he must have an awareness that the language moves: a) top to bottom b) bottom to top c) left to right d) right to left - Answer top to bottom June is trying to read her psychology text, and finds that she cannot tune out background noise of the library, the way the chair is uncomfortable on various parts of her body, the hum of the heating vents, pencil scribbles on the desk, the light on the computer plug that flashes, the whir of...

What is psychology? - Answer Science that studies behaviour and the physiological and cognitive processes that underly it. It is the profession that applies the knowledge found from this science to practical problems. Where are psychologists employed? - Answer Private practice, Universities, Hospitals and clinics, School counselling, Businesses What are the major research areas in psychology? - Answer Cognitive, Develepmental, Social, Experimental, Physiological, Personality, Psychom...

What is the most common mental illness among US adults? A. depression B. bipolar disorder C. anxiety disorders D. PTSD - C What is the leading cause of disability worldwide (according to WHO)? A. anxiety B. depression C. heart disease D. arthritis - B T/F Psychosis is an illness - F classic manic depressive disorder, with the exception that neither a depressive episode nor psychosis has to be present for diagnosis A. bipolar 1 disorder B. bipolar 2 disorder C. cyclothymic disorder - A defined by...

What is the most common mental illness among US adults? A. depression B. bipolar disorder C. anxiety disorders D. PTSD - C What is the leading cause of disability worldwide (according to WHO)? A. anxiety B. depression C. heart disease D. arthritis - B T/F Psychosis is an illness - F classic manic depressive disorder, with the exception that neither a depressive episode nor psychosis has to be present for diagnosis A. bipolar 1 disorder B. bipolar 2 disorder C. cyclothymic disorder - A defined by...