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What is the study of cognitive skills moral reasoning and social behavior across the lifespan?
What is the study of cognitive skills moral reasoning and social?
Which of the following are major areas of interest in cognitive psychology?
What psychology seeks to study the ultimate biological causes of behavior?

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Psychology refers to the ________.	scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Which individual wrote Principles of Physiological Psychology and is credited with establishing a scientific laboratory of Psychology at the University of Leipzig and is also known as the father of psychology?	Wilhelm Wundt
Behaviorism focuses on making psychology an objective science by ________.	studying overt behavior and deemphasizing the importance of unobservable mental processes
Which perspective within psychology emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans, free will and choice.	Humanism
For which concept is Abraham Maslow best known?	Proposing a hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior
The cognitive revolution created an impetus for psychologists to focus their attention on better understanding ________.	the mind and mental processes that underlie behavior
Select the correctly ordered list of psychological perspectives, with the earliest perspective listed first.	structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, humanism
Which famous female psychologist completed all of the requirements for a doctorate in psychology but was denied that degree because of her sex?	Mary Whiton Calkins
Penelope studies how the structure and function of the nervous system is related to behavior. She is a ________.	bio or biological psychologist
Lucy wants to study changes in physical attributes, cognitive skills, moral reasoning, and social behavior across the lifespan. Lucy should specialize in ________ psychology.	developmental
Cognitive psychology focuses on studying ________.	thinking, information processing and memory
Edmund wants to identify relatively consistent patterns of thought and behavior measure these traits &determine how these traits interact in a particular context to determine how a person will behave given situationEdmund wants to conduct research in...	personality
Susan wants to study prejudice, attraction, how we explain our own behavior versus how we explain the behavior of others, how we resolve interpersonal conflicts, and the effects of peer pressure on teen behavior. Susan should conduct research in ...	social psychology
Oona wants to conduct research on personnel management, workplace environment, and what type of environment results in high levels of employee productivity and efficiency. Oona should conduct research in the area of ________ psychology.	industrial-organizational
Which of the following is an example of research someone might conduct in the area of health psychology?	how does stress affect the immune system
Ashya wants to focus on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and other problematic patterns of behavior. What area of psychology should she work in?	clinical psychology
Which kind of psychologist would be consulted in jury selection and witness preparation?	forensic
The American Psychological Association, APA	all statements are correct
Inez was attempting to recite the definition of psychology she read in her psychology textbook. She said that psychology is the systematic study of behavior and mental processes. What important word did she omit?	scientific
Joseph said that several years ago in a long food line in the Soviet Union, an elderly woman fell to the ground and died of a heart attack No one helped her He add that this lack of help probably due diffusion of responsibility which goal of psychology?	to explain behavior: tell why
John Watson rejected structuralism and stated that psychology should study:	observable or overt behaviors
The ____ approach studies how our genes, hormones, and nervous system interact with the environment to influence behavior and mental processes.	biological
Consider this: It is the early 20th century and you are Freud’s personal assistant. As you listen to him speak, you can second-guess what he is about to say. One day, Freud says, “Anxiety, fear, and psychological problems are caused by...” and he thinks.	“...unconscious thoughts and feelings!”
In a documentary on TV, you hear of juvenile delinquents who have a hard time managing their anger. A psychologist has taught these troubled youths to think of how other people feel when people strike out at them in anger.	to control/modify behavior
Select the set of words that are most closely related to the psychoanalytic approach?	unconscious, childhood experiences, and anxiety
Reinforcement is to ____, as punishment is to ____.	increase; decrease
You want to change the behavior of your roommate. You decide to reward his behaviors that you like and punish his behaviors that you do not like. You are using:	operant conditioning
________ is when you take away a desirable or pleasant stimulus to stop a behavior.	negative punishment
Sometimes you give your dog a treat after he performs a trick and sometimes you do not. What reinforcement schedule are you using?	partial or intermittent reinforcement
What is the best example of operant conditioning?	A student is given a sticker for getting 100% on her math test and consequently studies extra hard for the next exam
In Bandura’s experiment, children learned to hit the Bobo doll through	watching an adult model hit a Bobo doll
Which one of the following is not necessary to the systematic desensitization procedure	identifying unconscious conflicts
In Watson and Rayner’s experiments, Little Albert was conditioned to fear a white rat, and then he began to be afraid of other furry white objects. This demonstrates ________	stimulus generalization
Who would have argued that we don’t need to directly be reinforced or punished to learn?	Albert Bandura
The goal of operant conditioning is to ____, while the goal in classical conditioning is to ____.	increase or decrease the rate of some behavior; create a new response to a neutral stimulus
Learning that involves mental processes, such as attention and memory, is called:	cognitive learning
Dakota is using operant conditioning to get his dog Rover to bring him his slippers. He sounds a bell, has Rover bring the slippers, and reinforces the behavior with a dog biscuit. One a church bell sounds outside and Rover brings Dakota his slippers.	generalization
Miranda comes home late one evening past her curfew only to find her parents waiting up for her. Her father says, “Miranda, you’re late! You may not use the car for an entire month.” Miranda’s father is using	negative punishment
A farmer always uses the same squeaky wheelbarrow to carry feed out to his sheep. When he does this, the sheep head for the feed trough in anticipation. In this example, noise of the wheelbarrow would be a(n):	conditioned stimulus
When using reinforcement to teach a new behavior at the beginning ____________ is the most effective	Continuous reinforcement
In Pavlov’s dog study, the unconditioned response was___; in quack attack, the unconditioned response was	salivation; ducking
In operant conditioning, the response is ____. In classical conditioning that response is ____.	voluntary; involuntary
You have a painful headache and so you take an aspirin to eliminate the pain. The aspirin works and now you are free of your headache. Taking the aspirin is an example of a	negative reinforcer—it increases the chance of taking aspirin again the next time you have a headache
Rewarding successive approximations toward a target behavior is ________.	shaping
The sight of a needle can trigger fear in some people. What type of learning can explain this association?	classical conditioning
What is the set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve both implicit and explicit information over different periods of time?	memory
What type of memories do we consciously try to remember, recall, and report?	explicit memories
The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness is known as ________.	retrieval
What is episodic memory?	information about events we have personally experienced
Your memory of how to ride a bicycle is probably something that you don’t actively think about while you’re riding. You just sort of “do it” without thinking of how you do it. This is an example of a(n) ________ memory.	implicit
When you take a multiple-choice test, you are relying on ________, because you are comparing the information in front of you to that which is already stored in your long-term memory.	recognition
Kenethia enjoys knitting she begins college has less time for knitting stops altogether. she wants to knit , she practices with her needles until she is good at it again an example of- means of retrieving information out of your long-term memory storage	relearning
How is an explicit memory different from an implicit memory?	Explicit memories are memories we consciously try to remember and recall, while implicit memories are those that are not part of our consciousness.
Dozens of people witness a purse snatching. One of the eyewitnesses loudly yells “the man with the blue shirt did it.” Later, when questioned by police, several other eyewitnesses remember the purse snatcher wearing a blue shirt, even though the purse sna	suggestibility
Ebbinghaus found that about one day after you learn new material, you will only remember ____ percent of it if you have not reviewed it a second time.	30
Elaborative rehearsal involves ________.	thinking about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory
Which of the following is a good example of the use of a mnemonic?	remembering the names of the Great Lakes with the acronym HOMES
Elena finds it very difficult to remember a long string of numbers, so she tries to memorize three numbers at a time. Later, she is able to repeat the numbers correctly because she grouped the numbers into more manageable groups of three. This is an ex	chunking
Amarah has an exam in a week, so she schedules 30 to 60 minutes each night to review her course material. She does this rather than waiting until the night before the exam so that she can avoid a “cram session.” Amarah’s approach to studying is called	distributed or spaced
From a cognitive psychology perspective, why is getting plenty of sleep the night before an exam important?	It allows for consolidation of studied material in long-term memory.

Developmental Psychology Applied Developmental psychologists study human growth and development over the lifespan, including physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, personality and emotional growth.

DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Developmental psychologists are interested in processes related to physical maturation. However, their focus is not limited to the physical changes associated with aging, as they also focus on changes in cognitive skills, moral reasoning, social behavior, and other psychological attributes.

Which of the following are major areas of interest in cognitive psychology?

Major areas of interest in cognitive psychology include language, attention, memory, decision-making, and problem-solving. Cognitive psychology has many practical applications.

What psychology seeks to study the ultimate biological causes of behavior?

While biopsychology typically focuses on the immediate causes of behavior based in the physiology of a human or other animal, evolutionary psychology seeks to study the ultimate biological causes of behavior.

The study of cognitive skills, moral reasoning, and social behavior across the lifespan is known as

Which of the following are major areas of interest in cognitive psychology?

What psychology seeks to study the ultimate biological causes of behavior?

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