Psychology
The process of thinking reflectively productively and examining evidence is called
Critical thinking
Which of the following is one of the recent additions for ethic issues addressed by American psychological Association research guidelines
Deception
7000 years ago people assume that psychological problems were caused by
Demons/evil spirits
Psychology is the study of behavior and mental process this means the psychologists are interested in
Describing ,predicting ,and explaining behavior and mental processes
In the study of memory encoding refers to
Getting information into memory
The behavior that researchers need to be aware of when observing participants in that it may not be the typical reactions and therefore skew the data Results
Howthorne effect
More than any other approach the blank stressed the role of psychology and enriching peoples lives and helping them to achieve self fulfillment
Humanistic perspective
According to your text the most temporary stage of memory is
Sensory memory
The sense out of five that we have with which evidence has indicated is strongest for memory storage and therefore memory retrieval
Smell
The psychological approach which examines how their behavior patterns and beliefs and other products of a particular group of people influence human thought and behavior is the
Sociocultural
Remember the three states of memory is an example of
Somatic memory
When attempting to obtain a large sample for gathering data a good source of information involves the use of
Surveys/questionnaires
Which of the following is the correct definition of memory
The retention of information overtime
The reason most North Americans can accurately describe the head of a penny is due to
Encoding failure
How long does information remain in long-term memory
Forever
An important part of the humanist perspective is
Free will
Proactive inference refers to
Inference in which information learned earlier disrupts the recall of new were material
What is the main advantage of chunking
It helps us manage large amounts of information
Which of the following is true of psychology
It uses the scientific method
Which of the following individuals gave an American perspective to the field of psychology
James
Well learning new terms you associate vivid images with important terms this activity is known as
Key word method
Which type of research style reflects a single group of people studied at different times
Longitudinal
The cognitive revolution in psychology involved the research of
Mental process
An essay examination is to recall as a Multiple choice test is to
Recognition
Difficulty in accessing a memory because of a presence of another information is known as
Proactive interference
Remember how to ride a bike is an example of
Procedural memory
Which of the following perspectives would be the most difficult to validate scientifically
Psychodynamic
Perspective argue that behavior is motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which we are a little awareness or control
Psychodynamic perspective
Which of the following would be the best example of a behavior
Raiding the answer to this question
The inability to recall information that one realizes one knows is called
Tip of the tongue
The formal beginning of psychology as a scientific discipline is generally considered to have occurred when
Wilhelm Wundt established the first experimental lab devoted to psychological phenomena
What is another term commonly used for shorter term memory
Working memory
Three key issues that underlie every some field of psychology includes nature versus nurture time related principles versus universal event principles and
continuity vs discontinuity
The various perspectives employed by psychologists
often complement one another