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A mother thinks that putting her baby in a stimulating environment will help it develop strong cognitive skills while the father thinks that the baby's intelligence will probably be based on how smart him and the mother are. What is this a sign of? correct answers the nature/nurture debate Which psychological school of thought sought to understand how the operations of the mind help people adapt to environmental demands correct answers functionalism which phenomenon is difficult for behav...

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Perceptual Organization correct answers determine what stimuli go together to form an object. Performed by the perceptual system Psychology correct answers is the science that seeks to understand behavior and mental processes and to apply that understanding of human welfare, stems from research, it's the foundation personal reality correct answers each individual's sense actively shape information about the outside world EMDR correct answers Francine Shapiro asked clients to think abo...

Definition of personality correct answers Relatively stable patterns of behavior, thoughts, and emotional reactions Freud's Psychodynamic Theory correct answers Our personalities are based on unconscious conflicts Id correct answers Operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification Ego correct answers Operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id's desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain Super-ego correct answers Operates a...

everything you do depends on... correct answers sensory/perceptual processing (e.g. walking, obtaining food, interacting socially) sensory processing correct answers fast & accurate; needs to be for survival what are the various human senses? correct answers vision hearing touch taste smell balance correct answers vestibular sense kinesthesis correct answers limb position & movement, temperature, and pain; body awareness somatosensation correct answers (touch) touch, temperatu...

Memory correct answers information-processing system that works to encode, store and retrieve information Information-processing model correct answers cognitive understanding of memory which emphasizes how info is changed when it is encoded, stored, and retrieved Encoding correct answers - Selection and identification of stimulus from vast array of input - Conversion of the stimuli to fit the preferred format for the memory system Storage correct answers Retention of encoded material ...

Divided Attention correct answers People can also divide their attention and deal with a great deal of high level information concurrently Stroop interference effect correct answers An example of a perceptual skill that has become automatic (to the point of being obligatory 0 with practice→ reading Cell phones and driving correct answers Talking on cell phones (hand free or not) while driving is as dangerous as driving while intoxicated due to inattention to the driving task (attention i...

What is Psychology? correct answers The scientific study of behavior and the human mind What two words are the meaning of psychology when combined? correct answers Soul (psyche) and Study (ology) What determines human behavior? correct answers Genetics, Culture, Personal Experience, and Cultural Environment The principles of psychology are similar to what other principles? correct answers The principles of physics What is the need for Psychological Science? correct answers Many peopl...

As Stacie drives on a main road, she approaches a traffic light that turns from red to green. In a process called transduction, A. the green light is a physical stimulus. B. the light waves are detected by Stacie's eyes. C. Stacie's sensory receptors translate the light into signals for the brain. D. Stacie's brain constructs a representation of the green light, which means "go." correct answers C Jack is camping with a friend in the woods. While stargazing, Jack notices a very faint...

Representing verbal info correct answers retain gist/ meaning vs. exact wording when told a story people retain the gist of the story not the exact wording Visual-spatial information correct answers stored as propositions (verbal statements) or as visual images ( a visual representation that preserves spatial and form information) Evidence for a visual-spatial format correct answers 3 ways: 1) Scanning experiments 2)mental rotation experiments 3) eidetic imagery Scanning experiment...