OLDROYD PSYCHOLOGY 1010 FINAL EXAM UNIVERSITY OF UTAH NEWEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
Psychology - (answer) the science of behavior and mental processes
Neuroscience perspective - (answer) how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory
experiences
-Might study brain circuits that cause us to be red in the face and 'hot under the collar'
Evolutionary perspective - (answer) -how the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of
genes
-Analyze how anger facilitated the survival of our ancestors' genes
Behavior genetics perspective - (answer) -how our genes and our environment influence our individual
differences
-Studies how heredity and experience influence our individual differences in temperament
psychodynamic perspective - (answer) -how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts,
modern freed
-Might view an outburst ass an outlet for unconscious hostility
Behavioral perspective - (answer) -how we learn and observable responses
-Might attempt to determine what triggers angry responses or aggressive acts
Social cultural perspective - (answer) -how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures,
the government and racism effects behavior, community effects behavior
-Might explore how expressions of anger vary across cultural contexts
nurture-nature debate - (answer) what extent particular aspects of our behavior are inherited and
what is acquired. Inherited would be genetics and acquired would be the environment you grow up in
selection effect - (answer) bias or preference that makes an individual not achieve randomness
- if you dont smoke and you hate being around it, you wont hang out with people who smoke
, OLDROYD PSYCHOLOGY 1010 FINAL EXAM UNIVERSITY OF UTAH NEWEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
- 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
Sensorimotor stage - (answer) -0-2, babies take in their world through their senses and actions,
through looking, hearing, touching, and grasping.
-Object permanence, stranger anxiety
Preoperational stage - (answer) -2-7, stage where a child learns to use language but does not yet
comprehend concrete logic
The thing where you pour water in different sized cups but it's the same amount of water and the kids
think that one cup has more or less water
-Do you have a brother?
Yes
-What's his name?
Jim
-Does Jim have a brother?
No
-Pretend play, egocentrism
Concrete operational stage - (answer) -7-11, children gain the mental operations that enabled them to
think logically about concrete operational events
-Conservation, mathematical transformations
Formal operational stage - (answer) -12-adulthood, during which people begin to think logically about
abstract concepts
-Abstract logic, potential for mature moral reasoning
Conservation - (answer) the principle that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape
Egocentrism - (answer) child's difficulty taking another persons point of view
Psychology - (answer) the science of behavior and mental processes
Neuroscience perspective - (answer) how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory
experiences
-Might study brain circuits that cause us to be red in the face and 'hot under the collar'
Evolutionary perspective - (answer) -how the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of
genes
-Analyze how anger facilitated the survival of our ancestors' genes
Behavior genetics perspective - (answer) -how our genes and our environment influence our individual
differences
-Studies how heredity and experience influence our individual differences in temperament
psychodynamic perspective - (answer) -how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts,
modern freed
-Might view an outburst ass an outlet for unconscious hostility
Behavioral perspective - (answer) -how we learn and observable responses
-Might attempt to determine what triggers angry responses or aggressive acts
Social cultural perspective - (answer) -how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures,
the government and racism effects behavior, community effects behavior
-Might explore how expressions of anger vary across cultural contexts
nurture-nature debate - (answer) what extent particular aspects of our behavior are inherited and
what is acquired. Inherited would be genetics and acquired would be the environment you grow up in
selection effect - (answer) bias or preference that makes an individual not achieve randomness
- if you dont smoke and you hate being around it, you wont hang out with people who smoke
, OLDROYD PSYCHOLOGY 1010 FINAL EXAM UNIVERSITY OF UTAH NEWEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
- 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
Sensorimotor stage - (answer) -0-2, babies take in their world through their senses and actions,
through looking, hearing, touching, and grasping.
-Object permanence, stranger anxiety
Preoperational stage - (answer) -2-7, stage where a child learns to use language but does not yet
comprehend concrete logic
The thing where you pour water in different sized cups but it's the same amount of water and the kids
think that one cup has more or less water
-Do you have a brother?
Yes
-What's his name?
Jim
-Does Jim have a brother?
No
-Pretend play, egocentrism
Concrete operational stage - (answer) -7-11, children gain the mental operations that enabled them to
think logically about concrete operational events
-Conservation, mathematical transformations
Formal operational stage - (answer) -12-adulthood, during which people begin to think logically about
abstract concepts
-Abstract logic, potential for mature moral reasoning
Conservation - (answer) the principle that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape
Egocentrism - (answer) child's difficulty taking another persons point of view
