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