PSY 201 EXAM 1 UO QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Learning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"Cells that fire together wire
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together"
This is the basis for long term memories
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Psychological science - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the study, through
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research, of mind, brain, and behavior
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Amiable Skepticism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Openness to new ideas but
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wariness to new "scientific findings"
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Confirmation bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a tendency to search for
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information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort
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contradictory evidence |
Seeing relationships that do not exist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Misperception that two simultaneous events must somehow be related
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,accepting after-the-fact explanations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-coming
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up with explanations as to why things happened (even with inadequate
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or incomplete information) hindsight bias
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hindsight bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the tendency to believe, after
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learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it
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Taking mental shortcuts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-people follow simple
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rules, called heuristics, to make decisions
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Dualism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The idea that there are 2 kinds of
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substance, mental substance (the soul) and physical substance (the
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body)
Monism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The idea that conscious
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thought/experience can be explained by one category of substance
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Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Formalized an argument for dualism
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Hobbes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Argued for a type of monism called
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materialism
Aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The heart is the seat of emotions, the
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brain just a "cooling organ"
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, Nurture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Human knowledge/thought comes
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from physical experience
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Nature - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Thought and ideas are innate; we are
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born with knowledge
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Localization of function - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Idea that specific parts
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of the brain serve specific functions in the control of experience and
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behavior
Darwin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-natural selection and evolution
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German Experimentalists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Studied simplest
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kinds of mental processes- simple sensations, memories, and
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judgments... sensation |
-Wilhelm Wundt |
-Reasoned that mental events take time, and these can be measured
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-Red light green light example in class
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Psychophysics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Studied relationship between
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conscious sensory experience and physical stimuli... perceived intensity
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and physical intensity
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CORRECT ANSWERS
Learning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"Cells that fire together wire
| | | | | | | |
together"
This is the basis for long term memories
| | | | | | |
Psychological science - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the study, through
| | | | | | |
research, of mind, brain, and behavior
| | | | |
Amiable Skepticism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Openness to new ideas but
| | | | | | | |
wariness to new "scientific findings"
| | | | |
Confirmation bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a tendency to search for
| | | | | | | | |
information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort
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contradictory evidence |
Seeing relationships that do not exist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Misperception that two simultaneous events must somehow be related
| | | | | | | |
,accepting after-the-fact explanations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-coming
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up with explanations as to why things happened (even with inadequate
| | | | | | | | | | |
or incomplete information) hindsight bias
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hindsight bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the tendency to believe, after
| | | | | | | | |
learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it
| | | | | | | |
Taking mental shortcuts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-people follow simple
| | | | | | | |
rules, called heuristics, to make decisions
| | | | |
Dualism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The idea that there are 2 kinds of
| | | | | | | | | | |
substance, mental substance (the soul) and physical substance (the
| | | | | | | | |
body)
Monism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The idea that conscious
| | | | | |
thought/experience can be explained by one category of substance
| | | | | | | | |
Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Formalized an argument for dualism
| | | | | | |
Hobbes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Argued for a type of monism called
| | | | | | | | | |
materialism
Aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The heart is the seat of emotions, the
| | | | | | | | | | |
brain just a "cooling organ"
| | | |
, Nurture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Human knowledge/thought comes
| | | | | |
from physical experience
| |
Nature - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Thought and ideas are innate; we are
| | | | | | | | | |
born with knowledge
| |
Localization of function - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Idea that specific parts
| | | | | | | | |
of the brain serve specific functions in the control of experience and
| | | | | | | | | | | |
behavior
Darwin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-natural selection and evolution
| | | | | |
German Experimentalists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Studied simplest
| | | | | |
kinds of mental processes- simple sensations, memories, and
| | | | | | | |
judgments... sensation |
-Wilhelm Wundt |
-Reasoned that mental events take time, and these can be measured
| | | | | | | | | | |
-Red light green light example in class
| | | | | |
Psychophysics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Studied relationship between
| | | | | |
conscious sensory experience and physical stimuli... perceived intensity
| | | | | | | |
and physical intensity
| |
