Major Perspectives
of Psychology
Research Methods
Types of Memory
Retrieval
Mystery
100
Human behavior is strongly influenced by unconscious sexual and aggressive conflicts. (School of Psych & Psychologist responsible)
What is Psychoanalysis. Who is Sigmund Freud.
100
Fake sugar capsules that were identical in appearance to the actual medicine capsules.
What is a placebo.
100
What are the 2 types of sensory memory and their duration.
What is Visual sensory memory (or iconic) - .3 seconds
What is Auditory sensory memory (or echoic) - 2-4 seconds
100
What term describes the sensation of knowing that specific information is stored in LTM, but being temporarily unable to retrieve it.
What is Tip-of-the-Tongue experience.
100
The first psychology lab was opened in what year?
What is 1879
200
Psychology should scientifically investigate observable behaviors that can be measured objectively and should not study consciousness or mental processes. (School of Psych & Psychologist responsible)
What is Behaviorism. Who is John Watson.
200
A psychologist discovers that as negative life events increase, episodes of depression also increase. The psychologist concludes that there is a __________ between negative life events and episodes of depression.
What is a positive correlation.
200
What is the capacity and duration of STM?
What is 7 items plus/minus 2; 20 seconds
200
Which term describes a phenomenon in which a given mood tends to evoke memories that are consistent with that mood.
What is mood congruence.
200
Who is the founding father of Psychology?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
300
Psychology should emphasize each person's unique potential for psychological growth and self-directedness. (School of Psych & Psychologist responsible)
What is Humanistic Psychology. Who is Carl Rogers.
300
Researchers have found that the more credit cards people have, the less money they tend to have in their savings accounts. These researchers have discovered a _________ between the number of credit cards and the amount of savings.
What is a negative correlation.
300
What are the 2 types of explicit memory.
What is Semantic memory & Episodic memory.
300
On average, how many TOT experiences do people have each week?
What is One TOT experience.
300
How do you move information from the sensory memory to the STM?
What is Attention.
400
Psychology should study how behavior and mental processes allow organisms to adapt to their environments. (School of Psych & Psychologist responsible)
What is Functionalism. Who is William James
400
A psychologist is interested in what hospital staff members say about their patients in public. His research assistants spend four hours riding elevators in various hospitals and unobtrusively recording the public conversations. This psychologist is using _____________.
What is naturalistic observation.
400
What are the 3 major components of the Baddeley Model of Working Memory.
What is Phonological Loop – the aspect of memory that is specialized for verbal material such as lists of numbers or words.

Visuospatial sketchpad – the aspect of memory that is specialized for spatial or visual material, such as remembering the layout of a room or city.

Central executive – the aspect of memory that controls attention, integrates information, and manages the activities of the other 2
400
The tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than items in the middle is what?
What is the Serial Position Effect
400
What is the term that means to remember an item at the end of a list?
What is the Recency Effect.
500
Psychology should focus on the elements on conscious experiences, using the method of introspection. (School of Psych & Psychologist responsible)
What is Structuralism. Who is Edward Titchener.
500
The fact that neither, the participants nor the researchers who interacted with them, knew which participants received the real medicine and which received the fake pill. This research style is called ______________.
What is the double-blind technique.
500
What is needed for information to travel from STM to LTM.
What is Encoding and Storage through Elaborative Rehearsal to move information from STM to LTM.
500
What is the term associated with the Serial Position Effect that mean the tendency to remember items at the beginning of a list?
What is the Primacy Effect.
500
Which psychologist became interested in (and even obsessed with) the paranormal because his son passed away?
Who is William James.
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