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Midterm 1 Flashcards

1
Q

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
Q

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
Q

Name 3 fallacies

A

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

25
Q

Name the 6 scientific principles

A

Rule out rival hypothesis
Correlation vs causation
Falsibility
Replicability
Extraordinary claims
Occams razor

26
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What is falsibilty

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Can be tested
Capable of being disconfirmed

27
Q

Occams razor

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Select simpler of two explanations

28
Q

What is structuralism and who founded it

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Basic elements of experience
E.B. Titchner

29
Q

What is functionalism and who founded it

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Understand thoughts, feelings, and behaviour
William James

30
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What is behaviourism and who founded it

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General principles of learning
John Watson and B.F. Skinner

31
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What is cognitivism and who founded it

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Mental behaviour
Jean Piaget
Ulric Neisser

32
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What is psychoanalysis and who founded it

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Psychological processes and behaviour
Sigmund Freud

33
Q

Two debates of psychology

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Nature vs nurture
Free will

34
Q

What is a heuristic

A

Mental shortcuts

35
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What is random assignment

A

Sorting participants into two groups

36
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Positive correlation

A

As one goes up, the other goes up

37
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Negative correlation

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As one goes up, the other goes down

38
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Is happiness determined by internal or external circumstances?

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Internal circumstances

39
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What is REB

A

Research’s ethics board

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