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What is psychology? - correct answers The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior What does psychology reflect the influences of? - correct answers • Biological processes • Individual differences (gender, pain) • Time and culture (we continue to learn more) What are the four goals of psychology? - correct answers • Describe how people and animals behave • Understand and explain the causes of behavior • Predict behaviors/reactions across situations • Con...

Memory - correct answers Active system that receives information from the senses, puts it into a usable form, organizes it, stores it away, and then retrieves it from storage. 3 Processes of Memory - correct answers Encoding: putting it in Storage: Keeping it Retrieval: Getting it out 3 Models of Memory - correct answers Information-Processing Model - step by step Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) - at the same time Levels-of-Processing Model - deeper processing = longer retained ...

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The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to - correct answers believe that they would have foreseen the outcome of past events. How many connections are there in the brain? - correct answers 1 quadrillion Suppose the correlation between the physical weight and reading ability of elementary schoolchildren is +0.85. This means that - correct answers better reading ability is associated with greater physical weight among elementary schoolchildren. Correlation refers to the extent to...

PSYCH 111 EXAM 1 RBS LATEST 2023- 2024 Empericism - CORRECT ANSWER-John Locke Blank slate Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER-Body vs soul Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER-Wundt Understand basic elements/structures of mind Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER-William James Mind and behavior adapt/evolve based on darwinism Behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER-Skinner: Operant conditioning John Watson: Classical conditioning little Albert Science of behavior: you are what you do Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWER...

Personality - correct answers an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving projective test - correct answers tests designed to reveal inner aspects of individuals' personalities by analysis of their responses to a standard series of ambiguous stimuli Types of Projective tests: - correct answers Thematic Apperception Test & Rorschach Inkblot Test Thematic Apperception test - correct answers a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and...

behavior/behaviorism - correct answers Discovered by John Watson. The school of psychology that holds that psychology should limit itself to the study of overt, observable behavior. What did Plato and Descarte have in common? - correct answers They were dualists, thought the mind and body was separate What did Greek philosophers attribute observations - correct answers naturalistic explanation Who is the father of structuralism - correct answers Wilhelm Wundt Who was the first psycho...

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