PSY 211 (PSY211)

Define in-group bias - Answer The tendency to favor one's own group Describe the different types of parenting style - Answer - Authoritarian: Impose rules & expect obedience - Permissive: Submit to children's demand, ask little, & rarely punishes bad behavior - Authoritative: Demanding but responsive to their children Describe the Cannon-Bard Theory - Answer The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subject...

What do psychologists do? - Answer Bring about positive change in behavior as professionals in a profession What is ethics? - Answer It is concerned with human wellbeing, perspective and moral justification What are the five normative ethical principles? - Answer 1. Autonomy 2. Beneficence 3. Non-malificence 4. Justice 5. Veracity How long does it take to become a registered psychologist? - Answer 6 years What are the requirements to become a psychologist in a special...

According to the National Science Foundation (2013), what percentage of all psychology doctoral degrees awarded in the U.S. were in clinical and counseling psychology combined? - Answer 48% Currently, only two states allow clinical and counseling psychologists to prescribe medications. Which two? (CHECK TWO BELOW) - Answer -New Mexico -Louisiana This term is used to describe activities that involve providing direct services to patients. - Answer practice However, if you'd l...

After each chapter in Dr. Woldt's Psychology of Abnormal Behavior class several students tell him about their symptoms that match disorders studied that week. The students are experiencing - Answer medical student syndrome Symptom recognition is determined by individual differences in - Answer ALL OF THESE (attention to one's body and situational factors, tolerance of physical symptoms and access to medical care, and physical reactivity and situational factors). Illness schemas...

episodic memory - Answer memory for a specific time and place (episode) semantic memory - Answer memory for general knowledge and facts about the world that has no info about learning context explicit memory - Answer conscious recollection and declarative knowledge includes episodic & semantic memory tasks: recall and recognition implicit memory - Answer memory without conscious recollection; involves skills and routine procedures that are automatically performed tasks: ...

Cognitive Psychology - Answer scientific study of the mind and mental process, like how we: acquire and use knowledge to govern our actions and feelings cognitive Psychology approach - Answer Infer what is happening inside the mind biggest challenge in cognitive psychology - Answer The mind is unobservable behaviorist view - Answer observable behavior provides the only valid data for psychology Methodological behaviorism - Answer We cannot observe mental processes, so...

What are the 4 main goals of attention? What research is associated with these goals? - Answer Explain dichotic listening & shadowing. What is the purpose of shadowing? What factors allow effective shadowing? What do people remember about unattended info? - Answer Dichotic Listening - Test for selective attention within the auditory system Shadowing - is used to guarantee that the person pays full attention to the designed channel Shadowing errors reveal factors affecting selecti...

T or F: An applicant who is notified that he or she has failed the examination for licensure a second time must terminate the practice of psychology - Answer TRUE T or F: After making application for licensure, applicants must take the first examination to which they are admitted by the Board. - Answer TRUE T or F: Members of the Board receive compensation for their services, in addition to their necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duties - Answer FALSE T or F: On...

A major change in American health is that 100 years ago, death was caused most often by _____. a. chronic illnesses b. accidental injuries c. viral illnesses d. bacterial illnesses - Answer bacterial illnesses What was the prevalent attitude of Americans a century ago if they caught infectious diseases? a. They felt great responsibility because they had exposed themselves to contagion. b. They felt little responsibility because those diseases could not be controlled. c. They felt li...

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