OLDROYD PSYCHOLOGY 1010 FINAL EXAM
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
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Psychology the science of behavior and mental processes
how the body and brain enable emotions, memories,
and sensory experiences
Neuroscience perspective
-Might study brain circuits that cause us to be red in
the face and 'hot under the collar'
-how the natural selection of traits has promoted the
survival of genes
Evolutionary perspective
-Analyze how anger facilitated the survival of our
ancestors' genes
-how our genes and our environment influence our
Behavior genetics individual differences
perspective -Studies how heredity and experience influence our
individual differences in temperament
-how behavior springs from unconscious drives and
psychodynamic conflicts, modern freed
perspective -Might view an outburst ass an outlet for unconscious
hostility
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-how we learn and observable responses
Behavioral perspective -Might attempt to determine what triggers angry
responses or aggressive acts
-how behavior and thinking vary across situations and
cultures, the government and racism effects behavior,
Social cultural perspective community effects behavior
-Might explore how expressions of anger vary across
cultural contexts
what extent particular aspects of our behavior are
inherited and what is acquired. Inherited would be
nurture-nature debate
genetics and acquired would be the environment you
grow up in
bias or preference that makes an individual not
achieve randomness
- if you dont smoke and you hate being around it, you
selection effect wont hang out with people who smoke
- if you played a lot of sports at a young age and
were around sports a lot, chances are you will grow
up to be sporty
-0-2, babies take in their world through their senses
and actions, through looking, hearing, touching, and
Sensorimotor stage
grasping.
-Object permanence, stranger anxiety
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