Final Flashcards
Define Psych.
The discipline concerned with behaviour and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism’s physical state, mental state, and external environment
Who is considered father of psych, and established the first psychological lab?
Wilhelm Wundt
What does empircial evidence mean?
Numbers
What was the ancient pseudoscientific practice believed that specific personality traits could be “read” from bumps on the skulls called?
Phrenology
Who is associated with pschoanalytics theory and the emphasis on the unconscious mind?
Sigmund Freud
What % of humans mind is conscious at any one time?
2-10%
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In psych research, mental processes are measured using_________ ______________.
Operational Definition
When conducting an experiment what do psychologist manipulate?
have control over
Indpendent Variable
In an experiment investigating the effect of eating junk food on weight gain, what would be the dependent variable?
Weight
In an experiment investigating the effect of eating junk food on weight gain, what would be the experimental condition?
Junk Food Group
Assigning partipants to different groups by drawing numbers out of a hat is an examples of what important research practice?
Random assignment
What is the median?
Middle number in a set
Feeling a boost of energy after drinking a decaf coffe is called what type of effect?
Placebo
True or false
Correlation proves causation.
FALSE
What is it called when a memory is tied to a very strong emotion and feel very accurate?
Flashbulb Memories
What are the three processes of memory that describe how memory “get in” “stay in” and “get out” of our minds?
Encoding, Storage and Retrival
What type of encoding is when you remember words by imagining them?
Visual Imagery encoding
What is millers magic number for the capacity of Short term memory?
7 +/-2 pieces of info
What type of memories are stored for longer than 30 sec in the human brain?
Long term memory
True or False
Eyewitness testomonies are an ideal form of evidence for police and lawyers to use because humans have SUPERIOR memory for faces.
False
Knowing how to swim would be considered which type of long-term memory?
Procedural memory
What is a memory trick or technique used to help remember?
Mnemonic Device
What type of long-term memory has been impaired, after a severe car accident and a patient can’t remember general factes, 2+2=4 and birds can fly?
Semantic Memory
What term describes the basic registration f light,sound,touch,odour or taste as the body interacts with physical world?
Sensation
What is the term for the weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response?
Extinction
What was the neutral stimulus that became conditioned stimulus that “Little Albert” was classically conditioned to be scared of?
White Rat
What type of reinforcement involves adding something pleasant to increase likelihood of a behavior reocurring?
Positive Reinforcement
Students with perfect attendance for the entire semester are exempt from writing the final exam. What form of operant conditioning is being applied to increase the behavior of attending class?
Negative Reinforcement
How many pairings are needed to establish taste aversion according to classical conditioning principles?
1
True or Flase
Receiving money as a reward can be considered a type of primary reinforcment.
False
Money is a secondary reinforcer
What is the best schedule to decrease undesirable behavior?
Continuous Punishment
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__________ is the process by which organisms organize,identify,intrepret, and assign meaning to sensory inputs to form a mental representation of the world.
Perception.
What is the term for the cross talk of sensations called?
Synasthesia
What is the process of converting physical signals from environment into neural signals sent to the central nervous system called?
Transduction
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________________ ____________ is the smallest quantity of physical energy that can be reliably detected by an observer 50% of the time.
Absolute threshold
What is the primary function of rods in the retina?
Night Vision
What is the name of the types of cells in the retina responsible for our ability to see color?
Cones
True or Flase
Humans can only see a tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum,while other forms of electromagnetic wavelengths such as UV light, IR light, Xrays,Microwaves and radio waves are invisble to the human eye.
True
Humans can’t hear the sound of dog whistle. What part of the Signal Detection Theory does this show?
Miss
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People with __________ __________ have an absence or dysfunction of one or more of the cone types and experience difficulty distingueing certain colours from one another such as green and red.
Color Blindness
