PSYC 100 Week 1 - Intro to Psych exam review
and all updated answers
The study of behaviour - answers✔✔Behaviourism
the study of mental processes - answers✔✔Cognitive Psychology
Awareness of ourselves and our environment. - answers✔✔Consciousness
The belief that knowledge comes from experience. - answers✔✔Empiricism
The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits - answers✔✔Eugenics
A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event. - answers✔✔Flashbulb
memory
A school of American psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness -
answers✔✔Functionalism
An attempt to study unity of experience - answers✔✔Gestalt psychology
Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development. -
answers✔✔Individual differences
, A method of focusing on internal processes. - answers✔✔Introspection
An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate. - answers✔✔Neural impulse
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice. -
answers✔✔practioner-scholar model
Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli. -
answers✔✔Psychophysics
A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the
external world. - answers✔✔Realism
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both
research and clinical skills. - answers✔✔Scientist practitioner model
A school of American psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience.
- answers✔✔Structuralism
The inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that that word is
available. - answers✔✔tip of the tongue phenomenon
A piece of biased evidence, usually drawn from personal experience, used to support a
conclusion that may or may not be correct. - answers✔✔Anecdotal evidence
In research, , the determination that one variable causes—is responsible for—an effect. -
answers✔✔casuality
In statistics, the measure of relatedness of two or more variables. - answers✔✔Correlation
and all updated answers
The study of behaviour - answers✔✔Behaviourism
the study of mental processes - answers✔✔Cognitive Psychology
Awareness of ourselves and our environment. - answers✔✔Consciousness
The belief that knowledge comes from experience. - answers✔✔Empiricism
The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits - answers✔✔Eugenics
A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event. - answers✔✔Flashbulb
memory
A school of American psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness -
answers✔✔Functionalism
An attempt to study unity of experience - answers✔✔Gestalt psychology
Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development. -
answers✔✔Individual differences
, A method of focusing on internal processes. - answers✔✔Introspection
An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate. - answers✔✔Neural impulse
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice. -
answers✔✔practioner-scholar model
Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli. -
answers✔✔Psychophysics
A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the
external world. - answers✔✔Realism
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both
research and clinical skills. - answers✔✔Scientist practitioner model
A school of American psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience.
- answers✔✔Structuralism
The inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that that word is
available. - answers✔✔tip of the tongue phenomenon
A piece of biased evidence, usually drawn from personal experience, used to support a
conclusion that may or may not be correct. - answers✔✔Anecdotal evidence
In research, , the determination that one variable causes—is responsible for—an effect. -
answers✔✔casuality
In statistics, the measure of relatedness of two or more variables. - answers✔✔Correlation
