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Question 1

what are the three processes of memory?

Answer 1

semantic, acoustic and visual

Question 2

three stages of memory? explain each

Answer 2

sensory - remember by senses
short - term
long - term

Question 3

what are false memories + examples.

Answer 3

Confabulation, is when there’s a gap in the memory and to feel it you make a fake memory.

Question 4

why are eye witness accounts bad

Answer 4

inaccurate/ they forget details over time

Question 5

4 ways to improve memory

Answer 5

1. repetition 2. revising 3. flash cards 4. chunking

Question 6

define psychology

Answer 6

The study of behavior and mental processes.

Question 7

Applied psychology

Answer 7

directly applies to help people with their problems

Question 8

research psychology

Answer 8

studying the origins/causes of a behavior

Question 9

developmental psychology

Answer 9

studies physical, cognitive and social changes throughout life

Question 10

clinical psychology

Answer 10

studies chronological problems “ depression, anxiety, etc

Question 11

experimental psychology

Answer 11

experiments to study the nervous system. neurological study

Question 12

Who is Willhelm Wundt + why is he known?

Answer 12

He was a psychologist, also known was the father of psychology

Question 13

What branch of psychology did Sigmund Freud found?

Answer 13

Psychoanalysis

Question 14

Who was a Harvard professor and wrote the first psychology textbook?

Answer 14

William James

Question 15

What branch of psychology is motivated by trying to meet social rules/expectations?

Answer 15

sociocultural

Question 16

what branch of psychology is the result of learned responses.

Answer 16

Learning/behavioral

Question 17

what branch of psychology is motivated by us trying to be good people

Answer 17

humanistic

Question 18

what branch of psychology says our actions are based on unconscious attempt to act out repressed sexual and aggressive impulses.

Answer 18

psychoanalytic

Question 19

what branch of psychology suggests our behavior is a result of biological meanings.

Answer 19

biological

Question 20

this branch of psychology suggests behavior is a result of mental thought processes

Answer 20

cognitive

Question 21

In the scientific method, what is the first step in an experiment.

Answer 21

hypothesis

Question 22

in scientific method, what is the name of the statement that describes the expected end results?

Answer 22

operational definitions

Question 23

A factor being measured in an experiment that may change depending on independent variable.

Answer 23

dependent variable

Question 24

What is the factor that researchers try to control to determine its effect?

Answer 24

independent variable

Question 25

What is placebo effect?

Answer 25

Gaslighting/ convincing someone of something that didn’t actually happen

Question 26

Method of research that asks a subject an array of questions

Answer 26

survey

Question 27

Method of research that studies one person in depth to make assumptions about general society.

Answer 27

case study

Question 28

A research method that observes a subject using a non-biased test : IQ, personality etc

Answer 28

psychological tests

Question 29

Experiment where participants don’t know whether they are experimental or control group

Answer 29

single-blind study

Question 30

Experiment where neither the participant or instructor know which group they are in

Answer 30

double-blind study

Question 31

The group that does not receive the testing

Answer 31

Control group

Question 32

The group that does receive the testing

Answer 32

experimental group