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Psychology 1101 Exam -1 Questions And Answers 2024 Update
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Psychology 1101 Exam #1 Questions And Answers 2024Update
psychology ANS✔✔ the scientific study of mind and behavior
mind ANS✔✔ our private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings
behavior ANS✔✔ observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals
stimulus ANS✔✔ sensory input from the environment
Gestalt psychology ANS✔✔ a psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the whole
rather than the sum of the parts
cognitive psychology ANS✔✔ the scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought,
memory, and reasoning
evolutionary psychology ANS✔✔ explains mind and behavior in tens of the adaptive value of abilities
that are preserved over time by natural selection
social psychology ANS✔✔ a subfield of psychology that studies that causes and consequences of
interpersonal behavior
cultural psychology ANS✔✔ the study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of
their members
validity ANS✔✔ the extent to which a measurement and a property are conceptually related
, reliability ANS✔✔ the tendency for a measure to produce the same measurement whenever it is used
to measure the same thing
power ANS✔✔ the ability of a measure to detect the concrete conditions specified in the operational
definition
demand characteristics ANS✔✔ those aspects of an observational setting that cause people to behave
as they think they should
double blind ANS✔✔ an observation whose true purpose is hidden from both the observer and the
person being observed
correlation coefficient ANS✔✔ a measure of the direction and strength of a correlation which is signified
by the letter r: ranges form -1 to 1
random assignment ANS✔✔ a procedure that uses a random event to assign people to the experimental
or control group
parsimony ANS✔✔ explaining results using the simplest assumptions
blind study ANS✔✔ observer does not know the true purpose of the experiment
placebo ANS✔✔ an inactive subject (sugar pill)
neurons ANS✔✔ cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to perform
information- processing tasks : responsible for communication between the body and the brain
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