Psychology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Personality - answer-A person's internally based characteristic ways of acting and thinking. Unique psychological qualities that influence a variety of characteristic patterns of behaviour and ways of thinking that determines a person's adjustment to the environment. Conscious mind - answer-Freud's term for what you are presently aware of Preconscious mind - answer-Freud's term for what is stored in your memory that you are not presently aware of but can access Unconscious mind - a...

Psychology - answer-the scientific study of behavior and mental processes Applied Research - answer-designed to solve specific problems Basic Research - answer-pure science, used to find new information Fields of Psychology - answer-clinical, consumer, rehabilitation, health, organizational (industrial) Clinical Psychology - answer-most common psychological career; clinical psychologists use their skills to promote health in groups and individuals Consumer Psychology - answer-stud...

infant visual preferences - answer-habituation amphetamine are to ______ as barbiturates are to _________ - answer-stimulants, depressants grandma is moving to her daughters house - answer-Li, because her cultural understanding of gender roles, marriage, and family ties outer limits of sleep established by - answer-cases of fatal familial insomnia belief that adult personality is completely determined in early childhood - answer-stability vs change release of epinephrine into bloo...

infant visual preferences - answer-habituation amphetamine are to ______ as barbiturates are to _________ - answer-stimulants, depressants grandma is moving to her daughters house - answer-Li, because her cultural understanding of gender roles, marriage, and family ties outer limits of sleep established by - answer-cases of fatal familial insomnia belief that adult personality is completely determined in early childhood - answer-stability vs change release of epinephrine into bloo...

infant visual preferences - answer-habituation amphetamine are to ______ as barbiturates are to _________ - answer-stimulants, depressants grandma is moving to her daughters house - answer-Li, because her cultural understanding of gender roles, marriage, and family ties outer limits of sleep established by - answer-cases of fatal familial insomnia belief that adult personality is completely determined in early childhood - answer-stability vs change release of epinephrine into bloo...

Correlation is a measure of the extent to which two factors - answer-Very together Olivia understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Olivia is clearly in Piagets _______ stage. - answer-Sensorimotor According to Piagets, schemas are - answer-Peoples conceptual ways of coming to terms with their sexuality The motor cortex is located in the ______ lobes. - answer-Temporal Both the researchers and the participants in a memory study are ignorant abo...

To what email address should every single email regarding Psych 101 be sent? - What branch of psychology would be most likely to study memory? - answer-Cognitive Psychology If I wanted to find out whether feelings of life satisfaction increase after eating a big meal, what would be the best research technique to use? - answer-Experiment William James is to Functionalism what Edward Titchner is to _________________? - answer-Structuralism What led to the decline of Behaviorism? - ans...

In the definition of psychology, the term 'behavior' means _______. - answer-overt actions and reactions A psychologist is interested in finding out why married couples seemingly begin to look like each other after several years of marriage. This psychologists is most interested in the goal of _____. - answer-explanation Who is considered to be the father os African American Psychology? - answer-Francis Cecil Sumner Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis focused on ______. - answer-introspec...

according to the nature through nurture perspective - answer-behavior is the result of constant interaction between biology and experience John locke, John Watson and B.F Skinner would agree that - answer-nurture is more important than nature which of the following is true of the ethical guidelines for doing psychological research with animals? - answer-animals can be used, by should be treated humanely True statement regarding enriched environments: - answer-multiple research studies s...

Psychology is the study of a.) mental illness b.) the brain c.) behavior and mental processes d.) observable behavior in humans and animals - answer-C The followers of ____________ argue that there is a close relationship between animal behavior and human behavior. a.) Jean Jacques Rousseau b.) Charles Darwin c.) John Locke d.) Rene Descartes - answer-B The year 1879 might be thought of as the beginning of psychology as a science because that is the year: a.) Margaret Floy Wash...