PSY121 Exam 1 MSU McNew
questions and answers passed
Elaborative Rehearsal - ANS ✔moves info from working memory to long-term memory
Psychology - ANS ✔the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Goals of Psychology - ANS ✔control, predict, describe, explain
Descriptive Methods: Naturalistic - ANS ✔watching, natural environment, lack of control
Descriptive Methods: Lab Observation - ANS ✔watching, controlled situations
Descriptive Methods: Case Studies - ANS ✔one subject, cannot generalized, detailed
information about single individual
Descriptive Methods: Surveys - ANS ✔standardized questions, large groups of people
representing population, may not tell truth or remember information correctly
Relationship Correlation - ANS ✔
Scientific Method - ANS ✔Identify problem, background research, hypothesis, test hypothesis,
analyze results, record results
Cause and Effect Relationships - ANS ✔relationships in which something happens (cause) to
produce a result (effect)
questions and answers passed
Elaborative Rehearsal - ANS ✔moves info from working memory to long-term memory
Psychology - ANS ✔the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Goals of Psychology - ANS ✔control, predict, describe, explain
Descriptive Methods: Naturalistic - ANS ✔watching, natural environment, lack of control
Descriptive Methods: Lab Observation - ANS ✔watching, controlled situations
Descriptive Methods: Case Studies - ANS ✔one subject, cannot generalized, detailed
information about single individual
Descriptive Methods: Surveys - ANS ✔standardized questions, large groups of people
representing population, may not tell truth or remember information correctly
Relationship Correlation - ANS ✔
Scientific Method - ANS ✔Identify problem, background research, hypothesis, test hypothesis,
analyze results, record results
Cause and Effect Relationships - ANS ✔relationships in which something happens (cause) to
produce a result (effect)
