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Psyc 100 - Winter Term Exam Questions
And Answers
Linguistics - Answers✔study of language
Morphemes - Answers✔The smallest units of meaning in a language.
Priming - Answers✔the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory
social brain hypothesis - Answers✔The hypothesis that the human brain has evolved, so that humans
can maintain larger ingroups.
linguistic intergroup bias - Answers✔A tendency for people to characterize positive things about their
ingroup using more abstract expressions, but negative things about their outgroups using more abstract
expressions.
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - Answers✔Language that people use determines their thoughts
levels of language (LSSR) - Answers✔Lexicon, syntax, speech, rate
theory of mind - Answers✔ability to reason about what other people know or believe
family resemblance theory - Answers✔members of a category have features that appear to be
characteristic of category members but may not be possessed by every member
prototype theory - Answers✔When learning a category, you learn general description that applies to the
category as a whole. Typical category members have more highly weighted features.
fuzzy categories - Answers✔borderline defined items that shift over time (ex. is an olive a fruit?)
category prototype - Answers✔most typical (obvious) category member
psychological essentialism - Answers✔The belief that members of a category have an unseen property
that causes them to be in the category and to have the properties associated with it.
Piaget's stages of cognitive development (4) - Answers✔sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete
operational, formal operational
socioculture theory - Answers✔focuses on how culture - the values, beliefs, customs, and skills of a
social group - is transmitted to the next generation
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information processing theory - Answers✔describe cognitive process that underlies thinking at any age
and growth over time
object permanence - Answers✔the knowledge that an object exists even when it is not in sight
phonetic awareness - Answers✔awareness of sound. crucial for reading
social perception - Answers✔the process of interpreting information about another person
social brain - Answers✔The set of neuroanatomical structures that allows us to understand the actions
and intentions of other people.
Social brain includes (4) - Answers✔amygdala, orbital frontal cortex (OFC), fusiform gyrus (FG), posterior
superior temporal sulcus (STS)
endophenotypes - Answers✔not immediately available to observation but reflect underlying genetic
liability for disease.
parenting styles (4) - Answers✔authoritative, authoritarian, uninvolved, permissive
authoritative parenting style - Answers✔high (but reasonable) expectations, high warmth, good
communication, reasoning > coercion
authoritarian parenting style - Answers✔high expectations, low warmth
uninvolved parenting style - Answers✔low expectations, low warmth
permissive parenting style - Answers✔low expectations, high warmth
family stress model - Answers✔Negative effects of family financial difficulty on child adjustment through
the effects of economic stress on parents' depressed mood. Increased marital problems & poor
parenting.
social referencing - Answers✔child look to mothers face to respond to events that are ambiguous or
uncertain
Explicit mental state inference - Answers✔Requires separating what we want, feel and know from what
the other person is likely to want, feel and know
False Belief Test (FBT) - Answers✔Evaluate children's ability to understand that someone else believes
something they know to be wrong
Temperament (personality) - Answers✔Early emerging differences in reactivity and self-regulation,
which constitutes a foundation for personality development
goodness of fit - Answers✔The match between a child's temperament and characteristics of parental
care that contributes to positive or negative personality development.
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Psyc 100 - Winter Term Exam Questions
And Answers
Linguistics - Answers✔study of language
Morphemes - Answers✔The smallest units of meaning in a language.
Priming - Answers✔the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory
social brain hypothesis - Answers✔The hypothesis that the human brain has evolved, so that humans
can maintain larger ingroups.
linguistic intergroup bias - Answers✔A tendency for people to characterize positive things about their
ingroup using more abstract expressions, but negative things about their outgroups using more abstract
expressions.
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - Answers✔Language that people use determines their thoughts
levels of language (LSSR) - Answers✔Lexicon, syntax, speech, rate
theory of mind - Answers✔ability to reason about what other people know or believe
family resemblance theory - Answers✔members of a category have features that appear to be
characteristic of category members but may not be possessed by every member
prototype theory - Answers✔When learning a category, you learn general description that applies to the
category as a whole. Typical category members have more highly weighted features.
fuzzy categories - Answers✔borderline defined items that shift over time (ex. is an olive a fruit?)
category prototype - Answers✔most typical (obvious) category member
psychological essentialism - Answers✔The belief that members of a category have an unseen property
that causes them to be in the category and to have the properties associated with it.
Piaget's stages of cognitive development (4) - Answers✔sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete
operational, formal operational
socioculture theory - Answers✔focuses on how culture - the values, beliefs, customs, and skills of a
social group - is transmitted to the next generation
, ©SIRJOEL EXAM SOLUTIONS 2024/2025
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
information processing theory - Answers✔describe cognitive process that underlies thinking at any age
and growth over time
object permanence - Answers✔the knowledge that an object exists even when it is not in sight
phonetic awareness - Answers✔awareness of sound. crucial for reading
social perception - Answers✔the process of interpreting information about another person
social brain - Answers✔The set of neuroanatomical structures that allows us to understand the actions
and intentions of other people.
Social brain includes (4) - Answers✔amygdala, orbital frontal cortex (OFC), fusiform gyrus (FG), posterior
superior temporal sulcus (STS)
endophenotypes - Answers✔not immediately available to observation but reflect underlying genetic
liability for disease.
parenting styles (4) - Answers✔authoritative, authoritarian, uninvolved, permissive
authoritative parenting style - Answers✔high (but reasonable) expectations, high warmth, good
communication, reasoning > coercion
authoritarian parenting style - Answers✔high expectations, low warmth
uninvolved parenting style - Answers✔low expectations, low warmth
permissive parenting style - Answers✔low expectations, high warmth
family stress model - Answers✔Negative effects of family financial difficulty on child adjustment through
the effects of economic stress on parents' depressed mood. Increased marital problems & poor
parenting.
social referencing - Answers✔child look to mothers face to respond to events that are ambiguous or
uncertain
Explicit mental state inference - Answers✔Requires separating what we want, feel and know from what
the other person is likely to want, feel and know
False Belief Test (FBT) - Answers✔Evaluate children's ability to understand that someone else believes
something they know to be wrong
Temperament (personality) - Answers✔Early emerging differences in reactivity and self-regulation,
which constitutes a foundation for personality development
goodness of fit - Answers✔The match between a child's temperament and characteristics of parental
care that contributes to positive or negative personality development.
