Final Flashcards
(23 cards)
Psychology is a hybrid of?
Philosophy and physiology
What is participant observation?
Joining a group or situation in order to study a behavior
Who is the founding father of psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt. Gustav Fetchner didn’t want the credit
What are double-blind studies?
Neither the experimenter or the participant know who’s receiving treatments or who is receiving the placebo
What does overt behavior mean?
An activity that can be observed
What does covert behavior mean?
Activities that cannot be seen
What is a naturalistic observation?
An observation of behavior that takes place in a natural setting
What is ID?
Part of personality that seeks pleasure and immediate gratification
What is EGO?
Part of our personality that operates within the bounds of reality to seek acceptable ways to satisfy ID demands
What is super ego?
Seats of our morals and conscious
What are self reports?
Indication about our internal state or subjective feeling
Retrograde amnesia is?
Difficultly remembering the past
Anterograde amnesia is?
Not able to remember new information
Long-term memory is?
The storehouse of facts, concepts, experiences and skills
Short term memory is?
Used to hold information briefly that has been identified so that it can be acted on or copied to a more permanent memory system
Recovering memory is?
Recollection of a past event that has been unavailable for a long period of time
Classical conditioning is?
Learning that results from the pairing of a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus
What is schema?
The general body of knowledge one possesses about a topic
What is a unconditioned stimulus?
Automatically elicits a response
What is a conditioned and stimulus?
Neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly paired with the unconditioned stimulus and now elicits the response.
What is naïve realism?
The view of perception that says our perception is the way it is because that’s the way the world
What is the intelligence quotient?
Mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100
Gardeners multiple intelligence theory?
Linguistic (verbal) Musical Spatial Logical-mathematical Bodily-kinesthetic (movement) Interpersonal (understanding others) Intrapersonal (understanding self) Naturalist
