Psyc 305 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The concept of ________ is a characteristic of ______ theories correct answers Stage; discontinuous A researcher had planned to examine children's memories for traumatic events by showing his participants a videotape of a violent crime, but his project was rejected by his university's ethics committee. The committee MOST likely rejected this study because it violated which od the following research rights? correct answers Protection from harm Which of the following research methods c...

Self-regulation correct answers the ability to control ourselves, to exert control over our own acts and inner processes. Self-direct correct answers allows us to modify our behavior to gain desirable outcomes. (EX: we can change the topic to avoid boring a friend/we stop drinking to avoid getting drunk) Skilled self-control correct answers the execution of an effective coping strategy to deal with temptation through prior planning and management of the situation Self-control fatigue co...

emotions correct answers 1. have distinct subjective feelings associated w them 2. accompanied by bodily changes (nerve sys, heart rate, etc) 3. accompanied by distinct action tendances, or increases probability of certain behaviours. action tendencies correct answers ex: to flee or flight when experiencing fear functional analysis correct answers proposed by charles darwin the "why" of emotions ex: dog growling= likely to attack emotional states correct answers transition...

nature vs nurture correct answers -ability to learn (nurture) is affected by gentic makeup (nature) of the individual -nature or nurture is not possible you need both -genetic factors can directly affect learning by affecting structure and function of nervous system -genetic factros also indirectly affect learning, because people differ in their sensitivitity to various stimuli, their intensity of reaction, or their level of emotionality heredity combines with environment correct answers ...

psychic energy correct answers energy within motivating human activity (Freud) instincts (2 from freud later changed to one- like instinct) correct answers self preservation instincts and sexual instincts libido correct answers life instinct thanatos correct answers urge to destroy, harm or aggress toward others to oneself death instinct preconscious correct answers easy retrievable information (what had for breakfast) blindsight correct answers injury/stroke cases blindness b...

psyche correct answers the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious, not physiology or physical aspects, the abstract Sigmund Freud correct answers an Austrian neurologist and professor and later psychotherapist, father of psychoanalysis, focus on unconscious processes, early childhood experiences, defence mechanisms C.G. Jung correct answers a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who worked with Freud, but later founded analytical psychology, focus on collective unconscious...

Plato believed that much of our knowledge is innate.True Which of the following would most likely involve activity in the amygdala?Wilma is frightened when the horse she is riding rears up. Imagery was rejected as an area of study by behaviorists in the twentieth century because images are ______.subjective, and cannot be measured directly _____ is a cross-disciplinary approach that uses ideas and methods from cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, AI, philosophy, linguistics, an...

Define culture. correct answers the connected set of ideas, practices, and social institutions that coordinate the behaviours of a culture's members Most research in personality psychology is done the United States, is this a problem? correct answers No, if there is cross-cultural universality, which is the idea that data found in the US applies everywhere else. Example: prosocial spending increases happiness around the world Yes, if there is cross-cultural specificity, which is the i...

Descriptive statisticsCentral tendency, variation, shape QualitativeNominal and ordinal QuantitativeInterval and ratio NominalNamed variables, order doesn't matter OrdinalNamed variables, order matters IntervalNumbered variables, no true zero, contains negative values RatioNumbered variables, absolute zero, does not contain negative values MeanThe average, sum of values divided by sample size

The concept of ________ is a characteristic of ______ theoriesStage; discontinuous A researcher had planned to examine children's memories for traumatic events by showing his participants a videotape of a violent crime, but his project was rejected by his university's ethics committee. The committee MOST likely rejected this study because it violated which od the following research rights?Protection from harm Which of the following research methods can be used to test a cause-and-effec...