Fechner - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The JND is a constant fraction of the stimulus. - ️️•JND / I = K I= intensity of the standard K = a constant that is characteristic of the task ("Weber fraction") conditions: - ️️-cataract - an opaque (or less transparent) area in the lens•some caused by UV in sunlight; common in aged•cured by removing lens, use glasses instead (but...) perception - ️️conscious experience of objects and their relationships (resulting from psychological processes in which meaning, r...

Psychology - Answer-the scientific (empirical) study of behavior and mental processes Psychology seeks to: - Answer-Describe behavior and mental processes Understand Predict Modify Subdisciplines of Psych - Answer-Human Developmental/Family Cognitive/Psycholinguistics Developmental/Child Industrial/Organizational Personality-Social Clinical and counseling psych are very similar in their day to day. Psychological Disciplines Learning: - Answer-rewards and consequences Psychological D...

PSYC 230 UIUC EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Perception - Answer-the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events Are there really 5 senses? - Answer-No, there are from 7-12 different senses neural transduction - Answer-receptors, transduction and neural response Sensation - Answer-activation of sensory receptors due to a stimulus in the environment (physical stimulus---->neural signal) Phenomenology - Answer-internal ...

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...

PSYC 319 Exam 2 | Questions with complete solutions The book "Principles of Physiological Psychology" was published in 1973 False Wilhelm Wundt is credited as the founder of Psychology. True Wundt believed the mind actively organizes the content of consciousness True Wundt used the term "elements" to suggest psychology was like the natural sciences True The subject matter of Wundt's psychology was consciousness True Wilhelm Wundt is the ____ of psychology as a discipline. a. Originator b....

c) it demonstrated that specific mental functions were mediated by different anatomical structures The Bell-Magendie law was significant because: a) it solved the mind-body problem b) it confirmed Hartley's view of nerve conduction c) it demonstrated that specific mental functions were mediated by different anatomical structures d) it allowed the individual differences in reaction times among astronomers to be equated a) kinesthesis Weber found that subjects detect much smaller weight differe...

PSYC 331 Sensation & Perception Exam 1 2024 detect - Correct Answer determining sensitivity of the perceptual system; signal present or absent in a quiet room or in noise (of varying types and levels) determine - Correct Answer determining sensitivity to stimulus differences identify/categorize - Correct Answer tends to involve complex stimuli that belong to different classes; it requires experience or expensive training When are you asking participants to do when measuring perception?...

Psychology The science of processes and behaviors What are the values of Psychology? 1. empirical evidence 2. critical thinking 3. systematic research methods What are the goals of Psychology? 1. description 2. explanation 3. prediction 4. facilitating changes (therapy) Aristotle Lived from 384 to 322. Believed that knowledge was acquired through experience Nature Vs. Nurture Are a persons characteristics mostly inborn or learned? Four Laws of Association 1. Law of Similarity 2. Law o...

GRE Psychology Questions & Answers Exam Review 2023 estrus - ANS-a recurring period of sexual receptivity and fertility in many female mammals; heat. G. Stanley Hall - ANS-founder of developmental psychology; American psychologist who established the first psychology research laboratory in the United States and founded the American Psychological Association There is no correlation between z scores and t scores. - ANS-Each of the following is true about z scores except: a. the mean of a...

Psychology correct answers The science of processes and behaviors What are the values of Psychology? correct answers 1. empirical evidence 2. critical thinking 3. systematic research methods What are the goals of Psychology? correct answers 1. description 2. explanation 3. prediction 4. facilitating changes (therapy) Aristotle correct answers Lived from 384 to 322. Believed that knowledge was acquired through experience Nature Vs. Nurture correct answers Are a persons characteri...