Intro to Psych
What is Psychology?
What is the scientific study of mind and behavior?
What is Cognition?
What is mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is processing information?
What is Social Psychology?
What is examines how people effect one another and how power effects the situation?
What is stress?
What is individuals perception and responces to stressors seen as threatening their well being?
What is an Independent Variable?
What is the variable in an experiment that is manipulated and altered in order to make a conclusion?
Where do Psychologist typically publish research?
What is journals?
What is Metacognition?
What is the knowledge and skills people to monitor and control their own mind?
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
What is the tendency people have to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in judging others' behavior?
What are stressors?
What are life changing, traumatic and situational events that cause pressure and discomfort in one's life?
What is a dependent variable?
What is the variable that changes as a result of the manipulation of the independent variable?
What are the 3 components of the Empirical Method?
What is the processes and organizing data, and drawling conclusions about the data?
What is confirmation bias?
What is the tendency to search for evidence that fits ones beliefs while ignoring evidence that does not fit their beliefs?
What is conformity?
What is the change in a persons behavior to go along with the group, even if they do not agree?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
What is preparing the body for stressful events by slowing unnecessary body functions such as digestion?
What is the difference between sample and population in a research study?
What is population is the whole group and the sample is the group that is selected for the experiment. (Example; Students at AACC (Population) Students in Psy111 (sample))
What are the 7 modern perspectives of psychology today?
What are Psychodynamic, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, sociocultural, biopsychological and evolutionary perspectives?
What is the difference between sensory, short term and long term memory?
What is sensory is where the information enters the nervous system and short term and long term is where memories are stored for a short period of time and long term is where memories are stored for a longer period of time?
What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?
What is prejudice is a negative attitude towards a person based on their membership. Discrimination is negative actions towards an individual as a result of one's membership?
What is a true experimental manipulates the independent variable and a quasi experiment discovers a link between 2 variables but does not manipulate the independent variable?
What are the 3 types of experimental design?
What is the pre experimental, true experimental and quasi experimental?
What are examples secondary resources?
What are magazines, newspapers and textbooks?
What are false memories?
What is memories are altered each time that new memories are retrieved?
What is cognitive dissonance?
What is the state of having inconsistent thoughts beliefs or attitudes relating to behavioral or attitude changes?
How would you describe correlational research?
What is defining a statistical relationship between two variables without influencing the intendant variable?
What are the steps to the scientific method?
What is ask a question, do research, make a hypothesis, perform experiment, analyze the data, draw a conclusion?