Psychology Exam and answers
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psychology - ANS✅✅the scientific study of mind and behavior
mind - ANS✅✅our private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings
behavior - ANS✅✅observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals
stimulus - ANS✅✅sensory input from the environment
Gestalt psychology - ANS✅✅a psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the
whole rather than the sum of the parts
cognitive psychology - ANS✅✅the scientific study of mental processes, including perception,
thought, memory, and reasoning
evolutionary psychology - ANS✅✅explains mind and behavior in tens of the adaptive value of
abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection
social psychology - ANS✅✅a subfield of psychology that studies that causes and consequences of
interpersonal behavior
cultural psychology - ANS✅✅the study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological
processes of their members
validity - ANS✅✅the extent to which a measurement and a property are conceptually related
reliability - ANS✅✅the tendency for a measure to produce the same measurement whenever it is
used to measure the same thing
power - ANS✅✅the ability of a measure to detect the concrete conditions specified in the
operational definition
, demand characteristics - ANS✅✅those aspects of an observational setting that cause people to
behave as they think they should
double blind - ANS✅✅an observation whose true purpose is hidden from both the observer and
the person being observed
correlation coefficient - ANS✅✅a measure of the direction and strength of a correlation which is
signified by the letter r: ranges form -1 to 1
random assignment - ANS✅✅a procedure that uses a random event to assign people to the
experimental or control group
parsimony - ANS✅✅explaining results using the simplest assumptions
blind study - ANS✅✅observer does not know the true purpose of the experiment
placebo - ANS✅✅an inactive subject (sugar pill)
neurons - ANS✅✅cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to perform
information- processing tasks : responsible for communication between the body and the brain
sensory neurons - ANS✅✅neurons that receive information for the external world and convey this
info to the brain via spinal cord
motor neurons - ANS✅✅neurons that carry signals from the spinal cord to the muscles to produce
movement
interneurons - ANS✅✅carry messages between neurons
cell body (soma) - ANS✅✅the part of the neuron that coordinated information-processing tasks
and keeps the cell alive
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psychology - ANS✅✅the scientific study of mind and behavior
mind - ANS✅✅our private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings
behavior - ANS✅✅observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals
stimulus - ANS✅✅sensory input from the environment
Gestalt psychology - ANS✅✅a psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the
whole rather than the sum of the parts
cognitive psychology - ANS✅✅the scientific study of mental processes, including perception,
thought, memory, and reasoning
evolutionary psychology - ANS✅✅explains mind and behavior in tens of the adaptive value of
abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection
social psychology - ANS✅✅a subfield of psychology that studies that causes and consequences of
interpersonal behavior
cultural psychology - ANS✅✅the study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological
processes of their members
validity - ANS✅✅the extent to which a measurement and a property are conceptually related
reliability - ANS✅✅the tendency for a measure to produce the same measurement whenever it is
used to measure the same thing
power - ANS✅✅the ability of a measure to detect the concrete conditions specified in the
operational definition
, demand characteristics - ANS✅✅those aspects of an observational setting that cause people to
behave as they think they should
double blind - ANS✅✅an observation whose true purpose is hidden from both the observer and
the person being observed
correlation coefficient - ANS✅✅a measure of the direction and strength of a correlation which is
signified by the letter r: ranges form -1 to 1
random assignment - ANS✅✅a procedure that uses a random event to assign people to the
experimental or control group
parsimony - ANS✅✅explaining results using the simplest assumptions
blind study - ANS✅✅observer does not know the true purpose of the experiment
placebo - ANS✅✅an inactive subject (sugar pill)
neurons - ANS✅✅cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to perform
information- processing tasks : responsible for communication between the body and the brain
sensory neurons - ANS✅✅neurons that receive information for the external world and convey this
info to the brain via spinal cord
motor neurons - ANS✅✅neurons that carry signals from the spinal cord to the muscles to produce
movement
interneurons - ANS✅✅carry messages between neurons
cell body (soma) - ANS✅✅the part of the neuron that coordinated information-processing tasks
and keeps the cell alive
