Intro To Psych Flashcards
Who believed that our emotions were from the heart?
Aristotle
Who said that the brain was the seat of mental processes?
Plato
Who was the first female president of the APA?
Calkins
What is psychology?
The study of behavior and mental processes
What is behavior?
Anything an organism does
Subjective experiences, such as sensations, perceptions, thoughts and beliefs, are known as what?
Mental processes
The biopsychosocial approach to psychology includes what three levels of analysis?
Biological, psychological, andsocial-cultural
What is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that we would have foreseen it is known as what?
Hindsight bias
What is overconfidence?
Assessing yourself and your abilities as great than they are and more than you should
What is an operational definition?
A workable definition of a term or phrase that specifically defines it so the experiment can be repeated
When a psychologist observes and records behavior is naturally occurring situations, it is known as what?
Naturalistic observation
What is a correlation?
The extent to which two factors vary together
What is an illusory correlation?
Two factors that someone tries to make a correlation between, but does not, in fact, exist
