Holistic approach to prior learning
Psychology into your personal life
Psychology across all disciplines
Psychology into career and educational decisions
Personal learning theorys
100
What is the Holistic approach t prior learning
What is psychology?
100
Psychodynamic perspective Behavioral perspective Humanistic Perspective Biopsychological Perspective Cognitive perspective Sociocultural perspective Evolutionary Perspective
What are the 7 modern perspectives?
100
These are _______________: 1. Observation 2. Case Study 3. Experimentation 4. Archival/ Correlational 5. Near or Quasi-experiments 6. Surveys
What are the major methods of research in psychology?
100
_________ is a measure of the relationship between 2 variables.
What is correlation?
100
_______ is making reasoned judgement about claims/
What is critical thinking?
200
Description: What happening? Understanding: Why is it happening? Prediction: When will it happen again? Control: How can it be changed?
What is the psychology's goals?
200
Which of the following pairs represents the two psychology perspective that were also part of historical beginnings of psychology? a) humanism and behavorial b)behavorial and psychodynamics c) psychodynamics and humanism d) cognitive psychology and psychodynamics
What is behavioral and psychodynamics?
200
Advantage: -Appropriate for studying rare psychological disorders or brain damage Disadvantage: -Cannot identify the cause of behavior –Potential for bias –Results can lack generalizability
What is case study?
200
__________ is the variable in an experiment that is manipulated by the experimenter and _________is a variable in an experiment that represents the measurable response or behavior of the subjects in the experiment.
What is the difference between independent and dependent variable?
200
These are ______ ________ criteria: 1. There are very few "truths" that do not need to be subjected to testing. 2. All evidence is not equal in quality. 3. Just because someone is considered to be an authority or to have a lot of expertise does not make everything that person claims automatically true. 4. Critical thinking requires an open mind.
What is critical thinking?
300
the process of examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities
What is objective introspection?
300
Which perspective is known as the "third force" in psychology? a) psychoanalysis b) behaviorism c) cognitive psychology d) humanism
What is humanism?
300
_________is the observation of behavior in its natural setting, without attempting to influence it. _________is the studying behavior in a laboratory setting –This allows more control and more precise measurement of responses
What is naturalistic and laboratory?
300
In an experiment to test the effects of alcohol on memory, the experimenter gives volka mixed in orange juice to one group of subjects and orange juice with no volka to the other group. She then measures the memory skills of both groups by means of a memory test. In this study, the independent variabel would be ______________. a) scores on the memory test b) the presence or absence of volka in the orange juice c) intelligence d) a placebo
What is "b" the presence or absence of volka in the orange juice?
300
Critical thinking means making judgements based on _______. a) emotional issues b) keeping a closed mind c) reason and logical evaluation d) autority and expertise
What is "c"-reason and logical evaluation?
400
________ is the focus on structure or basic elements of the mind and __________ is how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play.
What is the difference between structuralism and functionalism?
400
Which perspective would a researcher be taking if she were studying the way children store and retrieve information? a) psychoanalysis b) behavorism c) cognitive psychology d) evolutionary perspective
What is cognitive psychology?
400
_______ is a randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger population of subjects and ____________ is the entire group of people or animals in which the researcher is interested.
What is representative smaple and population?
400
In that experiment, the control group is the one that gets________. a) only one drink of orange juice with vodka b) a fake test of memory c) only something to eat d) the orange juice without vodka
What is "d"-the orange juice without vodka?
400
_________ is a systems of explaining human behavior that are not based on or consistent with scientific evidence.
What is psuedopsychologies?
500
___________ is the study of sensation and perception and ___________ is the theory and therapy based on Freud's work.
What is the difference between gestalt and psychoanalysis?
500
_______ studied not only classical conditioning but developed a theory of how voluntary behavior is learned which is called operant conditoning.
What is Skinner?
500
Which of the following is the BEST example of a represenative sample? a) You ask your fellow students to be participants in a study of adult memory. b) You ask people form your church to participate in a study of family values. c) You choose people shopping in an expensive store in the mall to respond to your survey. d) You choose people randomly for the telephone book to respond to your survey.
What is "d"- You choose people randomly for the telephone book to respond to your survey?
500
_________is a study in which the subject do not know if they ar in the experimental or control group and ___________ is a study in which neither the experimenter nor the subjects know if the subject are in experimental or control group.
What is single-blind study and double-blind study?
500
Which pseudopsychology claims to understand personality through a study of the bumps on one's skull? a) phrenology b) palmistry c) graphology d) astrology
What is "a"- phrenology?
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