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Learning - correct answers Any relative permanent change in behavior that occurs because of experience 
 
Conditioning - correct answers A kind of learning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and responses 
 
Classical Conditioning (Pavlov) - correct answers The organism learns to associate two stimuli; one produces a response that originally was only produce by the other 
 
Unconditioned Stimulus (US) - correct answers Elicits the unconditioned response 
 
Unconditioned Res...
Which of the early psychological movements was William James most associated with? - correct answers functionalism 
 
This legal term is the process of explaining the purpose, risks, benefits, and procedures of a study to participants to make sure that they know what you are doing before you collect data: - correct answers informed consent 
 
If you are interested in classical and operant conditioning, then you might be interested in this psychological perspective that included work by B.F. Skin...
behavior/behaviorism - correct answers Discovered by John Watson. The school of psychology that holds that psychology should limit itself to the study of overt, observable behavior. 
 
What did Plato and Descarte have in common? - correct answers They were dualists, thought the mind and body was separate 
 
What did Greek philosophers attribute observations - correct answers naturalistic explanation 
 
Who is the father of structuralism - correct answers Wilhelm Wundt 
 
Who was the first psycho...
Who is generally considered to be the father of psychology and was responsible for defining psychology as a separate field which could be studied using scientific methods? - correct answers Wilhelm Wundt 
 
William James' movement? - correct answers Functionalism 
 
Which psychological approach suggests that a psychological phenomenon should not be broken down into smaller parts and must be understood as a whole? - correct answers Wertheimer's Gestalt psychology 
 
This psychologist actually s...
Memory - correct answers the capacity to retain and retrieve information 
 
Flashbulb memories - correct answers dramatic positive or negative memory 
 
Memories of traumatic events are - correct answers more vivid than ordinary events 
 
Recall - correct answers ability to retrieve information which has been learned earlier 
 
recognition - correct answers ability to identify previously encountered information 
 
relearning - correct answers effort is saved in having learned soemthing before 
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What is generally referred to when discussing the broad categories of experimental research versus applied research? - correct answers • The premise of experimental design is that a group of participants are randomly assigned to treatment or intervention groups. This random assignment is intended to limit differences between groups. Additionally, the participant and/or experimenter are often blind to which group the participant belongs. With this type of design, you can effectively compare the...
What is generally referred to when discussing the broad categories of experimental research versus applied research? - correct answers • The premise of experimental design is that a group of participants are randomly assigned to treatment or intervention groups. This random assignment is intended to limit differences between groups. Additionally, the participant and/or experimenter are often blind to which group the participant belongs. With this type of design, you can effectively compare the...
Who is generally considered the father of psychology and was responsible for defining psychology as a separate field which could be studied using the scientific methods? - correct answers Wilhem Wundt 
 
Jerry sees the big picture when he looks at things. He is a musician and has a hard time understanding the value of a specific note without considering the entire melody. Which psychological movement would best describe his view of things? - correct answers Gestalt Psychology 
 
Who was the firs...
The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to - correct answers believe that they would have foreseen the outcome of past events. 
 
How many connections are there in the brain? - correct answers 1 quadrillion 
 
Suppose the correlation between the physical weight and reading ability of elementary schoolchildren is +0.85. This means that - correct answers better reading ability is associated with greater physical weight among elementary schoolchildren. 
 
Correlation refers to the extent to...
Social Psychology - correct answers Examines influence of social processes on way people think, feel, behave 
 
Attitudes - correct answers Positive/negative evaluative reaction toward person, object, concept 
 
Attitude Strength: Durability & Impact - correct answers Durability = if it lasts over time, Impact = if it impacts behavior or thoughts 
 
Initial Impressions - correct answers Initial perceptions make a difference; have shown strong effects 
 
Asch's study found that if presented with...