Psy 252 Exam Questions and Answer | Latest Update 2024/2025

Operant conditioning (instrumental conditioning) ~~> Skinner Social Psychology ~~> the scientific study of how we feel about, and behave toward the people around us and how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are influenced by those people Kurt Lewin ~~> Father of Social Psycholo...

Which of the following is true of the distinction between neuroscience and cognitive psychology? A. Neuroscience is analagous to a computer expert describing a computer at the level of the electronic components, cognitive psychology is analagous to a computer expert describing a computer at t...

Cognition ~~> mental activity that includes the perception, acquisition, storage, transformation, and use of information Cognitive Psychology ~~> theoretical approach to psychology that focuses on studying individuals thought process and knowledge Cognitive Science ~~> interdiscipl...

Functional Approach ~~> What if the purpose of ______? (ex: vision) What did it evolve to do? Structural Approach ~~> looking at body parts (eyeball, ear, brain) Error-based Approach ~~> When does it make mistakes? What does this tell us about how it works? (Ex: vision) Why is perce...

Actor-observer bias: ~~> Diff in attribution based on who is making the casual assessment: the actor who is relatively inclined to make situational attributions or the observer who is relatively inclined to make dispositional attributions BIRGing ~~> Basking in reflected glory People g...

motor signal or image displacement signal? ~~> image displacement signal Detecting Motion: Say you are studying in the quiet area on campus and a person walks by you but your eyes stay stationary looking at your computer in front of you. You're still aware that somebody did just walk by bu...

Which of the following is the preferred method used by cognitive psychologists to study the mind? Experiments Naturalistic observation Case studies Intuition and personal insight ~~> Experiments True or False: Provided that an event is detected by our sensory receptors, it will be id...