Midterm 1 Flashcards

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What percentage of your brain do you use?

A

100%!!

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2
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How much does the brain weigh

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3lbs and 2% of body weight

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3
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How much caloric intake do our brains take

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20%

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4
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What is encoding

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Getting information into memory
Focused attention, better encoding, better memory

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5
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Should you change your answers?

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Depends if you know the material

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6
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Levels of psychological analysis

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Social culture influences, psychological, biological

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7
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What is social culture analysis

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Social or behavioural level
Relating to others and personal relationships

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8
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What is psychological analysis

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Mental or neurological level
Thoughts, feelings, emotions

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9
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What is biological analysis

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Molecular or neurochemical level
Involves molecules and brain structure

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10
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5 challenges of psychology (hb, pi, Id, ie, c)

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Human behaviour, psychological influences, individual differences, influence each other, culture

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11
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Why is human behaviour a challenge

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Hard to predict

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12
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Why are psychological influences a challenge

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Rarely independent

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13
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Why are individual differences a challenge

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We our thinking, emotions, personalities, and behaviours are different

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14
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Why is our influence on each other a challenge
Or reciprocal determination

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We don’t know what causes what

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15
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Why is culture a challenge

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Culture shapes behaviour

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16
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What are two biases

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Confirmation bias, disconfirming bias

17
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What is belief perseverance

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Stick to our initial belief despite evidence

18
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3 main processes of memory

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Encoding, storage, retrieval

19
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3 types of memory

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Sensory, short term, long term

20
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What is a mnemonic

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Learning aid

21
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What is a schema

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Organized knowledge

22
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How do we measure memory

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Recall, recognition, relearning

23
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Four factors that that give perception profiling is effective

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Availability heuristic- media reports wins
Base rate information
Pt Barnum effect- general or vague characteristics
Expertise heuristic- we trust “experts”

24
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Name 3 fallacies

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Emotional reasoning fallacy- emotions used to validate claim
Bandwagon fallacy- believing because everyone believes
Not me fallacy- believing we’re immune

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Name the 6 scientific principles
Rule out rival hypothesis Correlation vs causation Falsibility Replicability Extraordinary claims Occams razor
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What is falsibilty
Can be tested Capable of being disconfirmed
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Occams razor
Select simpler of two explanations
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What is structuralism and who founded it
Basic elements of experience E.B. Titchner
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What is functionalism and who founded it
Understand thoughts, feelings, and behaviour William James
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What is behaviourism and who founded it
General principles of learning John Watson and B.F. Skinner
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What is cognitivism and who founded it
Mental behaviour Jean Piaget Ulric Neisser
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What is psychoanalysis and who founded it
Psychological processes and behaviour Sigmund Freud
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Two debates of psychology
Nature vs nurture Free will
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What is a heuristic
Mental shortcuts
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What is random assignment
Sorting participants into two groups
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Positive correlation
As one goes up, the other goes up
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Negative correlation
As one goes up, the other goes down
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Is happiness determined by internal or external circumstances?
Internal circumstances
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What is REB
Research’s ethics board