Introduction to Psychology
Who was the father of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
Jolene is carefree and not as ambitious as some of her coworkers. Instead, Jolene likes to relax whenever possible. Jolene is most likely a Type ___ Personality
B
Phobia
Fixed ratio
Normal loss of memory due to the passage of time
Decay
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Psychology
Candice believes that fate will help her find the right man with whom to live her life. She likely has an external:
Locus of control
Refers to an individual's ability to separate what is real and what is fantasy
Pyschotic
The reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred
Spontaneous recovery
________ memory includes what people can do or demonstrate, whereas ________ memory is about what people know and can report
Declarative, nondeclarative
Psychological perspective that focuses on observable behavior only
Behaviorism
The level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories, and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness
Unconscious mind
The study of abnormal behavior and psychological dysfunction
Psychopathology
An involuntary response to a naturally occurring stimulus
Conditioned response
Everything that can be seen at one time is known as
Iconic memory
Psychological perspective that focuses on the biological bases of universal mental characteristics that all humans share.
Evolutionary Perspective
Albert Bandura considers _________ as a person's expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance.
Self-efficacy
Any pattern of behavior or thinking that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harms their ability to function in everyday life
Psychological disorder
The basic units of sound in a language are known as
Phonemes
What type of memory best explains the "What?" phenomenon?
Echoic memory
Two early schools of thought in psychology that have opposing ideas about the purpose of psychology. ________ focuses on the structure of the mind and consciousness through introspection, while ________ focuses on how the mind allows people to adapt, work, live, and play
Structuralism, functionalism
Jung's name for the memories shared by all members of the human species
Severe disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, hallucinations, and inability to distinguish reality from fiction
Schizophrenia
Positive reinforcement results in ________ in the target behavior and negative reinforcement results in ________ in the target behavior. (increase/decrease)
An increase, an increase
The tendency to remember information at the end of a body of information better than the information at the beginning
Recency effect