Pysch study – Flashcards
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You typcially fail to consicially percieve that your own nose is in your line of vision. This best illustrates.
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selective attention
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During a hearing test, many sounds were presented at such a low sound of intensity.
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absolute threshold
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In explaining human behavior, psychoanalysts are likely to focus on _____________, whereas humanistic psychologists concentrate on________________.
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childhood experiences and unconscious thoughts
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Which approach is most directly concerned with assessing the relative contributions of heridtary and experience to personality development.
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biopsychosocial
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Which area of pyschology might be best suited; what happens in our brain when we forget details about stressful life events and how does this process affect behavior.
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cognitive neuroscience
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In the early 1960s, the cognitive revolution in pysch involved a renewal of interest in the scientific study of
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mental processes
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Who would have been most likely to ignore mental processes and define pyschology as a scientific study of observable behavoir
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john watson
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The study of phenomena such as clairvoyance and telepathy is called
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parapsychology
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The pop-out phenomenon illustrates that some stimuli almost inevitably trigger SELECTIVE ATTENTION
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selective attention
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Diminished SENSITIVITY to an unchanging stimulus SENSORY ADAPTION
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sensory adaptation
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The minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time.
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absolute threshold
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Behavorists dismiss the value of
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introspection
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The process by which our sensory systems convert stimulis energies into NEURAL MESSAGES is called TRANSDUCTION
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transduction
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As the brain receives information about the lines, angles, and edges of objects in the environment, higher-level cells process and interpret the information to consciously recognize objects. This process best illustrates PERCEPTION (LINES, ANGLES, EDGES)
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perception
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The adjustable opening in the center of the eye is
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the pupil
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Bottom-up processing involves anaylsis that begins with SENSORY receptors
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sensory receptors
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As you look at an APPLE, its reflected light travels to the eye. The rods and cons absorb the light and help transmit the information to the brain, this process best illustrates SENSATION
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sensation
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The detection and encoding of stimulus energies by the nervous system is called SENSATION (DETECTION AND CODING)
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sensation
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In university of utah driving simulation experiments conversing on cell phones were slower to detect and respond to traffic signals
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selective attention
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The process by which we select, organize and interpret sensory information in order to recognize meaningful events and objects. PERCEPTION (SELECT, ORGANIZE, INTERPRET)
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perception
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Gestalt is described as AN ORGANIZED WHOLE
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an organized whole
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The method of introspection was used by titchener to identify SENSORY
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elements of the sensory experience
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Dr. santanillo conducts basic research on how children's moral thinking changes as they grow older, it is most likely that dr. s is a DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGIST
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developmental psychologist
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The cognitive perspective in pyschology focuses on how ENCODE, PROCESS AND STORE
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People encode, process, store and retrieve information.
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Accomodation refers to PROCESS LENS
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the process lens change to focus image on the retina.
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The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known
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natural selection
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Which philospher was the first to conclude that knowledge results from our memories of our experiences.
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aristotle
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the distinctive feature of the psychodynamic perspective is its emphasis on UNCONSCIOUS CONFLICTS
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unconscious conflicts
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Arguments as to whether pyschology differences between men and women result from biological or social influences most clearly involve a debate over the issue of NATURE VERSUS NATURE
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nature versus nature
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The biological perspective in pysch would be most likely to empasize that behavior is influenced by BLOOD CHEMISTRY
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blood chemistry
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Professor brody attempts to measure the realtive contribuation of inborn traits and sexual influcences on sexual behavior. Her reseach efforts best illustrate the interests of the approach BEHAVIOR GENETICS
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behavior genetics
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The personality theorist, sigmund freud
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physician
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Who would be most likely to empasize the role of the unconscious in affecting behavior.
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freud
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jury duty question
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Foresenic pyschologist
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The ability to pay attention to only one vioce at a time is called
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the cocktail party effect
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Percieving the color, motion and form of a bird in flight illustrates PARALLEL PROCESSING
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parallel processing
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Which professional specialty focuses on the daignsisos and treatment of people with pyschological disorders. CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY.
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clinical psychology
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rods are
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more light-sensitive and less color-sensitive than are cones
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The first pyschological labraotry was established by
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wundt
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Contemporary pyschology is best defined as a scientific study of
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Behavior and mental process.
