Psyc 2000 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PSYC 2000 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ What is subliminal perception? - Answer-stimuli acting on our unconscious mind to influence our behavior What is habituation? - Answer-the tendency of the brain to stop attending to constant, unchanging information What is sensory adaptation? - Answer-the tendency of sensory receptors to become less responsive to a stimulus that is unchanging What is the difference between habituation and sensory adaptation? - Answer-habituati...

Awareness of everything around you and inside of your head at any given moment - ANSWER consciousness consciousness is used to organize your ______, _____, _____, and _____ - ANSWER behavior, thoughts, sensations and feelings 2 types of consciousness? - ANSWER waking, altered state waking consciousness? - ANSWER thoughts, feeling sensations when we are awake; generally clear and organized altered consciousness? - ANSWER shifts in the quality in or pattern of mental activity (Daydreaming,...

Personality - The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel and behave is called ___. Character - Value judgments of a person's moral and ethical behavior is called ___. Temperament - The enduring chatacteristics with which each person is born is called ___. Psychodynamic Psychology - A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders; Freud Preconscio...

the scientific study of behavior and mental processes - ANSWER Psychology -Behavior (any action) -Mental Processes (perceptions, thoughts, feelings) -Scientific - ANSWER 3 Aspects of Psychology -Describe -Explain -Predict -Control - ANSWER Goals of Psycholog

clinical psychology - ANSWER study, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders sensation & perception - ANSWER study of the processing of stimuli (sight, sound, touch, etc) rom the environment evolutionary psychology - ANSWER study of how behavior is a result of adaptations over time which help people function/survive in their enviornment

Asch used a set of comparison lines and a standard line to experiment with conformity, finding that - ANSWER subjects conformed to group opinion about one third of the time, increased as the number of confederates rose to four, and decreased if just one confederate gave the answer Cross cultural research has found that - ANSWER collectivistic cultures show more conformity than individualistic cultures Gender differences do not exist in conformity unless - ANSWER the response is not private...

LSU PSYC 2000 -EXAM TEST BANK WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS During conditioning (classical) - Answer-Neutral stimulus + Unconditioned stimulus (paired repeatedly) -> Unconditioned response (Bell + Food -> Salivation) After conditioning (classical) - Answer-(neutral stimulus becomes conditioned stimulus) Conditioned stimulus -> Conditioned response (Bell -> Salivation) Unconditioned stimulus - Answer-stimulus that elicits a reflexive response (food) U...

Psychology - ANSWER The scientific study of behavior and mental processes Wilheim Wundt - ANSWER father of psychology, first attempt to bring objectivity/measurements in psychology, founded the 1st experimental psychology lab, work involved objective introspection Edward Titchener - ANSWER student of Wundt, founder of structuralism structuralism - ANSWER study consciousness by trying to understand its smallest, most basic elements William James - ANSWER founder of functionalism Functiona...

How people think - ANSWER Cognition is a mental activity that occurs in the brain when information is being organized, stored, communicated, or processed. How mental images are involved in the process of thinking - ANSWER Mental images represent objects or events and have a picture-like quality Concepts - ANSWER ideas that represent a class of events, objects, or activities Prototypes - ANSWER examples of a concept that more closely match the defining characteristics of that concept

Study of diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders - ANSWER Clinical psychology study of how genes/genetics makeup influences behavior - ANSWER behavioral genetics study of how behavior is a result of adaptations over time which help people function/survive in their environment - ANSWER evolutionary psychology application of psychology to workplace settings - ANSWER industrial-organizational psychology The scientific study of behavior and mental processes - ANSWER psychology field...