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The Psychological Perspective (Chapter 1)
Research Methods (Chapter 1)
Memory (Chapter 5)
Thinking Critically
Miscellaneous
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Renee Descartes and Charles Darwin were essential towards developing this specific psychological perspective which is described as "The psychological perspective that searches for the cases of behavior in the functioning of genes, the brain and nervous system, and the endocrine (hormone) system.
What is the biological perspective?
100
This component of the scientific method is defined as "A statement predicting the outcome of a scientific study; a statement predicting the relationship among variables in a study". An example of this would be, "Sugar causes children to become hyperactive"
What is a hypothesis?
100
This term is defined as "a system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information"
What is Memory?
100
Why would scientists want to replicate an experiment that has already been done?
To make sure that their experiment has accurate results
100
This medical field is oftentimes confused with Psychology because it *treats* mental disorders--when in reality, the two fields can be very different.
What is psychiatry?
200
Which psychological perspective encompasses the interaction of heredity and the environment, thus unfolding predictable patterns through the lifespan? (founded by Mary Ainsworth and Jean Piaget)
What is the Developmental Perspective?
200
If you were to experiment to try and prove that "sugar causes hyperactivity", what would be your independent variable? Your dependent variable?
Independent: sugar/no sugar, what you manipulate Dependent: the children's activity level, what the outcome would be that you would *measure*
200
This form of inference discusses that it is easier to remember the first and last items of a sequence rather than the middle. (EG: go to a party, only remember the 1st and last person's names that you met and no one else)
What is the Serial Position effect?
200
The behavioral research perspective is similar to the sociocultural research perspective because both focus on how behavior and mental processes are explained by __________________?
The external Environment
200
This field of study is defined as "the science of behavior and mental processes".
What is Psychology?
300
Which psychological perspective deals with Psychodynamics (processes in our unconscious mind), the humanistic approach (innate needs to grow and fulfill our best potential), and trait/temperament (personality traits consistent over-time and across situations)? (*Hint, Freud is very key in developing this perspective)
What is the "Whole-person perspective" (or the psychodynamic)?
300
This process is defined as "a process used to assign individuals to various experimental conditions by chance alone"--also the best solution to avoid biased results.
What is random assignment?
300
This memory error is described as being "when memories are retrieved but are associated with the wrong time, place, or person" (EG: A woman watching a man being interviewed on TV an hour before she is robbed--describes robber to match characteristics of person on TV due to stress of situation)
What is misattribution?
300
Describe the three different stages of memory? Where does memory start out and end up?
Sensory: holds 12-16 visual items for a second or two. Working" smallest storage capacity with a duration of 20-30 seconds. Chunking and rehearsal help. Long-term: Apparently unlimited storage capacity and duration.
300
This is the favorite color of Megan.
What is red?
400
The development of the computer promoted the forming of this psychological perspective defined by having "an emphasis on mental processes, such as learning, memory, perception and thinking, as forms of information processing"
What is the cognitive perspective
400
This type of correlation occurs (within a correlational study) when both variables under research go the same direction, or both increase.
What is a positive correlation, eg: Increased soda consumption is positively correlated with increased obesity.
400
This memory strategy is defined as a "technique for improving memory, especially by making connections between new material and information already present in long-term memory"
What is a mnemonic strategy or device?
400
You were attempting to retrieve a memory, but were unable to do so. What did you just experience?
Blocking. (page 198)
400
This is the best school in Utah?
What is Utah State University
500
Which perspective deals with the stimuli in our environment, and the previous consequences of our behaviors? (*Hint, BF Skinner and the different forms of reinforcement are discussed within this perspective)
What is the Behavioral Perspective?
500
This type of research method is defined as "a method that focuses in depth on only one or a few individuals, usually with rare problems, or unusual talents"
What is a case study?
500
When you attend a class, have dinner at a restaurant, or make a phone call, you know what to expect because each of these events involve familiar scenarios. This is because your mind forms clusters of knowledge to give us a context for understanding these events. What are those clusters of knowledge called?
Schemas (bottom of pg 185)
500
10 years from now, let's say you randomly recall the memory of the first time you & Megan kissed. What would that memory be called?
What is a flashbulb memory? pg 189