Final

Question 1

Our memories change over time because they are pliable

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Memories have been implanted in research experiments meaning it may be possible for someone to have a memory they believe is true when it’s not

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The memory of facts and experiences that no one can consciously know and declare is _____ memory (also known as declarative memory)

Answer 3

Explicit

Question 4

Memory independent of conscious recollection is _____ memory (also known as non-declarative)

Answer 4

Implicit

Question 5

Matching

1. Your first day of school
2. Fear of dogs because I was once bitten
3. The name of things
4. How to ride a bike

Answer 5

Answers

1. Episode Memory
2. Priming
3. Semantic Memory
4. Procedural Memory

Question 6

Matching

1. Retrieve
2. Encode
3. Store

Answer 6

Answers

1. get information out of storage
2. Get information into storage
3. Retain over time

Question 7

Put the stages of memory formation in proper order

Answer 7

1. Event occurs
2. Perception by Sensory Register (5 senses)
3. Encoded to Sensory Memory
4. Encoded to Short-Term Memory
5. Encoded to Long-Term Memory
6. Retrieved to Short-Term Memory

Question 8

There are three levels of encoding: Match them

1. The word was an acronym for “The United States of America”
2. The letters of the word were blue
3. The stove is hot!

Answer 8

Answers

1. Deep processing
2. Shallow processing
3. Automatic processing

Question 9

What is the “big question” of developmental psychology? What makes us who/what we are:
____vs.____ (genes vs experience)

Answer 9

Nature vs Nurture

Question 10

Nature vs Nurture: 
Prenatal Chemical Factors 
Genetics
Individual Experiential Factors 
Postnatal Chemical Factors 
Traumatic Factors

Answer 10

1. Nurture
2. Nature
3. Nurture
4. Nurture
5. Nurture

Question 11

Match the BEST nature/nurture factor with each example

1. I was addicted to smoking cigarettes by age 12
2. My dad was a famous football athlete
3. People growing up in North America in 1930s lived during the great depression
4. Received the red hair gene from father
5. Mom took drugs while pregnant
6. I was in a car accident and was paralyzed

Answer 11

Answers:

1. Postnatal Chemical Factor
2. Individual Experiential Factor
3. General Experiential Factor
4. Genetics
5. Prenatal Chemical Factor
6. Traumatic Factor

Question 12

Which Psychologist theorized that humans go through specific stages of cognitive development similar to our specific stages of physical development?

Answer 12

Jean Piaget

Question 13

Match the words with its definition
Accommodation
Maturation
Assimilation

Answer 13

Answers:
Adjusting to new experiences
Biological growth process that enables orderly changes in behavior
Interpreting experiences through existing schemas

Question 14

Put the four stages of development in proper order

Answer 14

1. Sensorimotor
2. Pre-operational
3. Concrete operational
4. Former operational

Question 15

Match each item with the developmental stage in which it typically occurs

1. Experience the world primary through the senses
2. Ego-centrism (All about me)
3. Gains theory of mind ( starts seeing from others perspective)
4. Gains an understanding of conservation
5. Starts thinking logically
6. Animism: animating inanimate objects
7. Starts abstract reasoning, problem solving, hypothetical questions
8. Lack object permanence (if I don’t see it, it doesn’t exist)

Answer 15

Answers

1. Sensorimotor
2. Pre-Operational
3. Concrete Operational
4. Pre-Operational
5. Concrete Operational
6. Pre-Operational
7. Formal Operational
8. Sensorimotor

Question 16

Universal primary emotions are easily expressed and discerned by facial expressions

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Why do we have emotion? What is their primary purpose?

Answer 17

Relationships

Question 18

Secondary emotions are experienced BEFORE we process our primary emotion

Answer 18

False

Question 19

Give an example of self-conscious emotion

Answer 19

Greed, Embarrassment, Shame, Guilt,Pride,Jealousy,Envy

Question 20

At what age are self-conscious emotions typically FIRST experienced?

Answer 20

2-3 yrs old

Question 21

Self-conscious emotions are typically easily expressed and easily discerned by facial expressions

Answer 21

False

Question 22

Match each item with one of the components of emotion 1. Increased Respiration (Breathing)

2. Give a hug
3. Run away
4. Increased Heart Rate
5. Related Memories
6. Subjective Feelings
7. Punch the Wall
8. Interpretation of Event
9. Perspiring

Answer 22

Answers

1. Physiological Arousal
2. Expressive Behavior
3. Expressive Behavior
4. Physiological Arousal
5. Conscious Experience
6. Conscious Experience
7. Expressive Behavior
8. Conscious Experience
9. Physiological Arousal

Question 23

Match the psychologists with their interpretation of how emotions work.

1. I tremble because I feel afraid
2. I feel afraid because I tremble
3. When my subconscious interprets something to be scary, i tremble and I feel afraid
4. I label my trembling as fear because i label the situation as dangerous

Answer 23

Answers

1. Common Sense
2. James-Lange
3. Cannon- Bard
4. Schactor

Question 24

Our feelings and the behaviors they can produce will affect our minds, bodies, ans health

Answer 24

True

Question 25

According to the facial feedback hypothesis, what we do with our faces and bodies can influence our emotions

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Which is not a stressor?

Answer 26

None of the above

Question 27

Stress is bad for our health due to lifestyle factors, social factors, and biological factors. Match the following 1. Don't eat well because I feel sad 2. Isolate because of depression 3. Increased inflammatory proteins released in body due to stress 4. Refuse help because I am angry 5. Don't exercise because I am unhappy

Answer 27

Answers 1. Lifestyle factor 2. Social Factor 3. Biological Factor 4. Social Factor 5. Lifestyle Factor

Question 28

Match each word to it's definition 1. Social influence by demand 2. The process of explaining events, or inferring their causes 3. The idea that we comply in order to fuel our need to be liked or belong 4. Describes how we adjust our behavior or thinking to follow the behavior or rules we belong to: 5. Changing a behavior in response to a direct request

Answer 28

Answers: 1. Obedience 2. Attribution 3. Normative Social Influence 4. Conformity 5. Compliance

Question 29

According to Attribution Theory, we attribute events and behaviors to what?

Answer 29

Disposition and/ or Situation

Question 30

According to Fundamental Attribution Error, we tend to underestimate the impact of the ____ when analyzing (judging) other's behavior

Answer 30

Situation

Question 31

According to Self-Serving Bias, we tend to view POSITIVE outcomes as resulting from external factors and NEGATIVE outcomes as resulting from internal (our own effort or ability) factors

Answer 31

False