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1
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Our memories change over time because they are pliable

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True

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Memories have been implanted in research experiments meaning it may be possible for someone to have a memory they believe is true when it’s not

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True

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The memory of facts and experiences that no one can consciously know and declare is _____ memory (also known as declarative memory)

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Explicit

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Memory independent of conscious recollection is _____ memory (also known as non-declarative)

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Implicit

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Matching

  1. Your first day of school
  2. Fear of dogs because I was once bitten
  3. The name of things
  4. How to ride a bike
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Answers

  1. Episode Memory
  2. Priming
  3. Semantic Memory
  4. Procedural Memory
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Matching

  1. Retrieve
  2. Encode
  3. Store
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  1. get information out of storage
  2. Get information into storage
  3. Retain over time
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Put the stages of memory formation in proper order

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  1. Event occurs
  2. Perception by Sensory Register (5 senses)
  3. Encoded to Sensory Memory
  4. Encoded to Short-Term Memory
  5. Encoded to Long-Term Memory
  6. Retrieved to Short-Term Memory
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There are three levels of encoding: Match them

  1. The word was an acronym for “The United States of America”
  2. The letters of the word were blue
  3. The stove is hot!
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  1. Deep processing
  2. Shallow processing
  3. Automatic processing
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What is the “big question” of developmental psychology? What makes us who/what we are:
____vs.____ (genes vs experience)

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Nature vs Nurture

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Nature vs Nurture: 
Prenatal Chemical Factors 
Genetics
Individual Experiential Factors 
Postnatal Chemical Factors 
Traumatic Factors
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  1. Nurture
  2. Nature
  3. Nurture
  4. Nurture
  5. Nurture
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Match the BEST nature/nurture factor with each example

  1. I was addicted to smoking cigarettes by age 12
  2. My dad was a famous football athlete
  3. People growing up in North America in 1930s lived during the great depression
  4. Received the red hair gene from father
  5. Mom took drugs while pregnant
  6. I was in a car accident and was paralyzed
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Answers:

  1. Postnatal Chemical Factor
  2. Individual Experiential Factor
  3. General Experiential Factor
  4. Genetics
  5. Prenatal Chemical Factor
  6. Traumatic Factor
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12
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Which Psychologist theorized that humans go through specific stages of cognitive development similar to our specific stages of physical development?

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Jean Piaget

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13
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Match the words with its definition
Accommodation
Maturation
Assimilation

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Answers:
Adjusting to new experiences
Biological growth process that enables orderly changes in behavior
Interpreting experiences through existing schemas

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14
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Put the four stages of development in proper order

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  1. Sensorimotor
  2. Pre-operational
  3. Concrete operational
  4. Former operational
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Match each item with the developmental stage in which it typically occurs

  1. Experience the world primary through the senses
  2. Ego-centrism (All about me)
  3. Gains theory of mind ( starts seeing from others perspective)
  4. Gains an understanding of conservation
  5. Starts thinking logically
  6. Animism: animating inanimate objects
  7. Starts abstract reasoning, problem solving, hypothetical questions
  8. Lack object permanence (if I don’t see it, it doesn’t exist)
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  1. Sensorimotor
  2. Pre-Operational
  3. Concrete Operational
  4. Pre-Operational
  5. Concrete Operational
  6. Pre-Operational
  7. Formal Operational
  8. Sensorimotor
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16
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Universal primary emotions are easily expressed and discerned by facial expressions

17
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Why do we have emotion? What is their primary purpose?

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Relationships

18
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Secondary emotions are experienced BEFORE we process our primary emotion

19
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Give an example of self-conscious emotion

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Greed, Embarrassment, Shame, Guilt,Pride,Jealousy,Envy

20
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At what age are self-conscious emotions typically FIRST experienced?

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2-3 yrs old

21
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Self-conscious emotions are typically easily expressed and easily discerned by facial expressions

22
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Match each item with one of the components of emotion 1. Increased Respiration (Breathing)

  1. Give a hug
  2. Run away
  3. Increased Heart Rate
  4. Related Memories
  5. Subjective Feelings
  6. Punch the Wall
  7. Interpretation of Event
  8. Perspiring
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Answers

  1. Physiological Arousal
  2. Expressive Behavior
  3. Expressive Behavior
  4. Physiological Arousal
  5. Conscious Experience
  6. Conscious Experience
  7. Expressive Behavior
  8. Conscious Experience
  9. Physiological Arousal
23
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Match the psychologists with their interpretation of how emotions work.

  1. I tremble because I feel afraid
  2. I feel afraid because I tremble
  3. When my subconscious interprets something to be scary, i tremble and I feel afraid
  4. I label my trembling as fear because i label the situation as dangerous
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  1. Common Sense
  2. James-Lange
  3. Cannon- Bard
  4. Schactor
24
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Our feelings and the behaviors they can produce will affect our minds, bodies, ans health

25
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According to the facial feedback hypothesis, what we do with our faces and bodies can influence our emotions

26
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Which is not a stressor?

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None of the above

27
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Stress is bad for our health due to lifestyle factors, social factors, and biological factors. Match the following

  1. Don’t eat well because I feel sad
  2. Isolate because of depression
  3. Increased inflammatory proteins released in body due to stress
  4. Refuse help because I am angry
  5. Don’t exercise because I am unhappy
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Answers

  1. Lifestyle factor
  2. Social Factor
  3. Biological Factor
  4. Social Factor
  5. Lifestyle Factor
28
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Match each word to it’s definition

  1. Social influence by demand
  2. The process of explaining events, or inferring their causes
  3. The idea that we comply in order to fuel our need to be liked or belong
  4. Describes how we adjust our behavior or thinking to follow the behavior or rules we belong to:
  5. Changing a behavior in response to a direct request
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Answers:

  1. Obedience
  2. Attribution
  3. Normative Social Influence
  4. Conformity
  5. Compliance
29
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According to Attribution Theory, we attribute events and behaviors to what?

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Disposition and/ or Situation

30
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According to Fundamental Attribution Error, we tend to underestimate the impact of the ____ when analyzing (judging) other’s behavior

31
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According to Self-Serving Bias, we tend to view POSITIVE outcomes as resulting from external factors and NEGATIVE outcomes as resulting from internal (our own effort or ability) factors

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