Psych 105 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The most commonly used IQ test in the United States is the: - Answer Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV. Approximately _____ of the population have an IQ score between 85 and 115. - Answer 68% Higher intelligence is related to the thickness of the _____. - Answer cerebral cortex Below are several statements about the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. Which statement is CORRECTLY identified as false? - Answer The same items are used for test-takers of different ages - False Con...

Which of the following is true about mental images? - Answer- They are representations in the mind of an object or event A prototype is: - Answer- the most typical or highly representative example of a concept. _____ is the process by which information is used to draw conclusions and make decisions. - Answer- reasoning Syllogisms are used to study: - Answer- reasoning Formal reasoning in which people draw a conclusion from a set of assumptions is known as _____ reasoning. - Answer- s...

The term culture is typically used in everyday language to refer to all of the following except - Answer genetic determinants of behavior. The textbook defines culture as the values, beliefs, and practices of a group of people, shared through symbols - Answer and passed down from generation to generation. Most people use the term culture to refer to someone's race, ethnicity, or country of origin. This is known as a ________ definition of culture. - Answer narrow _________ is det...

William james - Answer-founded functionalism G. stanley Hall - Answer-founded first psych research lab in the US sigmund freud - Answer-founded psychoanaysis john b. watson - Answer-founded behaviorism b.f. skinner - Answer-behaviorist carl rogers - Answer-founded humanistic psych abraham maslow - Answer-developed theory of motivation karl wernicke - Answer-left temporal lobe

The most commonly used IQ test in the United States is the: - Answer- Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV. Approximately _____ of the population have an IQ score between 85 and 115. - Answer- 68% Higher intelligence is related to the thickness of the _____. - Answer- cerebral cortex Below are several statements about the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. Which statement is CORRECTLY identified as false? - Answer- The same items are used for test-takers of different ages - False Con...

What is psychology? - Answer Science that studies behaviour and the physiological and cognitive processes that underly it. It is the profession that applies the knowledge found from this science to practical problems. Where are psychologists employed? - Answer Private practice, Universities, Hospitals and clinics, School counselling, Businesses What are the major research areas in psychology? - Answer Cognitive, Develepmental, Social, Experimental, Physiological, Personality, Psychom...

Retrieval environment - Answer- New environments inhibit recognition. (Correct answer) short-term memory - Answer- memory storage system that briefly holds a limited amount of information in awareness long-term memory - Answer- relatively permanent storage of information encoding - Answer- processing of information so that it can be stored storage - Answer- retention of encoded representations retrieval - Answer- act of recalling or remembering stored information when it is needed...

In order for 5 year old Zane to learn to read Japanese, he must have an awareness that the language moves: a) top to bottom b) bottom to top c) left to right d) right to left - Answer top to bottom June is trying to read her psychology text, and finds that she cannot tune out background noise of the library, the way the chair is uncomfortable on various parts of her body, the hum of the heating vents, pencil scribbles on the desk, the light on the computer plug that flashes, the whir of...

Why to use scientific method - Answer Reduces Various bias (puts distance between researcher and participant) and helps to provide better theories (can be rested against and holds strong ) Hindsight bias - Answer - "I knew it all along" - Make sense of anything with info we already have - Know what happens after it happens present/present bias - Answer We only consider the evidence that is currently present and not anything that isn't Ex: someone stops in the middle of the inte...

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