University of Connecticut

Natural science - Answer Study of the physical environment and the world which we live in Social sciences - Answer Study of the social environment and the interactions of humans in society Behavior - Answer The actions or reactions of a person or things in response to external or internal stimuli. (Observable, objective, may help understand mental/cognitive processes) operational definition - Answer a concrete and measurable description of how researchers measure...

American Psychological Association - Answer professional organization representing psychologists in the United States behaviorism - Answer focus on observing and controlling behavior biopsychology - Answer study of how biology influences behavior biopsychosocial model - Answer perspective that asserts that biology, psychology, and social factors interact to determine an individual's health clinical psychology - Answer area of psychology that focuses o...

4 Definitions of Psychology - Answer 1. The Science of Mind and Behavior 2. The Science of Experimental Epistemology 3. The Science of Knowing and Experiencing 4. The Science of Things that Move Around on Their Own Wilhelm Wundt - Answer 1879 Leipzig, Germany Founded the first lab dedicated to psychology (separated psychology from philosophy) John Broadus - Answer 1913 Declares that to be a science, psychology must only study the observable and science must be a beh...

US - Answer Unconditioned Stimulus (food in mouth), input to a reflex UR - Answer Unconditioned Response (Salivation to food) Output of reflex CS - Answer Conditioned Stimulus- (A bell) CR - Answer Conditioned Response, A response to the bell Operant Conditioning - Answer Trial and error or incremental learning, a response is strengthened by a reinforcement Classical Conditioning - Answer Pairing two stimuli together that eventually makes the re...

Define sensation and perception. How do they relate to one another? - Answer Sensation: "How do we come to be aware of the world?"/Using our senses Perception: How we make sense of our senses, how we interpret Contrast bottom-up and top-down effects on perception. Provide examples of each. - Answer Bottom-up: no filter, information given. goals; perceptions are built from sensory input (ex. figuring out how a dude can handstand with one arm by just looking at him) T...

long term memory (duration and storage capacity) - Answer duration: permanent storage capacity: infinite (hypothetically) short term memory (duration and storage capacity) - Answer duration: seconds to minutes storage capacity: 7+/- 2 chunks working memory - Answer short term memory chunks - Answer organized packets of info in STM 3 aspects of memory process - Answer acquisition storage retrieval acquisition - Answer In order to rememb...

Dualism vs. Materialism - Answer Dualism-body and the mind are separate things (Descartes) Materialism-the mind is what the brain does, all mental processes can be reduced to physical processes (Hobbes) Realism vs Idealism - Answer Realism-perception is entirely based on sensory organs (Locke) Idealism-the mind uses sensory information and knowledge of the world to produce perception (Kant) Nativism vs. Empiricism - Answer Nativism: Belief that we are born with the abil...

stage theory (types of memory, length + storage capacity) - Answer long term and short-term memory LT: Relatively permanent, infinite storage ST: Seconds to minutes, there are 7 (+/- 2) chunks/packets of information What is the flow of information in memory? - Answer Stimulus --> STM --> rehearsal --> LTM What are the kinds of rehearsal in memory? - Answer maintenance: holds info in the ST memory elaborative: moves info into the LT memory. serial posi...

UConn Journalism 1002 Final Exam questions well answered to pass

ENGR 1166 Exam #1 (UCONN) questions with correct answers