Psychology questions for a big test tommorow please help!!!!!!!!!!?

1. Define psychology.-

2. Understand how psychological theory is modified.

3. Name the four principle aims of psychology.

4. Know the where the greatest number psychologists are employed and what area of psychology they are trained in.

5. John B. Watson argued for a psychology based on what?

6. Pavlov's technique in teaching dogs to salivate to a bell is called what?

7. B. F. Skinner made major contributions to what field of psychology?

8. What field of psychology has emphasized the roles of insight and understanding in problem solving.

9. Who established the school of psychology known as Psychoanalysis.

10. Jean Piaget is associated with which psychological perspective?

11. What is empirical research?

12. What is a hypothesis?

13. What is an operational definition of a variable.

14. Define:

a) random sample

b) selection sample

c) stratified sample

d) volunteer bias

e) validity

f) reliability

15. Be able to choose the weakest correlation from a set of correlation statistics.

16. Distinguish between an independent and dependent variable.

17. Explain the all or none principle of neural firing.

18. What process reveals the influence of nature through the unfolding of traits as determined by genetic code.

19. Recognize the order and describe the stages in Erik Erikson developmental theory.

20. Know the defining markers of secure attachment.

21. Be familiar with the classic rhesus monkey research of the Harlows on attachment and material deprivation.

22. Understand Baumrind鈥檚 description of the relationship between competence in children and parenting styles.

23. Understand Piaget鈥檚 definitions of assimilation and accommodation.

24. Name Piaget's stages of cognitive development in order of increasing age.

25. Name and describe Kohlberg鈥檚 stages of moral development.

26. Differentiate between sensation and perception.

27. Understand:

a) the principle illustrated by the Rubin vase.

b) the phi phenomenon

c) stroboscopic motion

d) direct inner awareness

28. Understand levels of consciousness described by Freud. (conscious, preconscious, and unconscious)

29. Understand Freud鈥檚 common defense mechanisms including:

a) repression

b) suppression

c) sublimation

d) displacement

e) regression

f) reaction formation

30. Why is REM sleep called paradoxical sleep.

31. How do behaviorists define learning?

32. Ivan Pavlov provided evidence that reflexes can be learned through what process?

33. Understand the concepts and mechanical relationships between the following in Pavlov鈥檚 theory of conditioned response and learned association:

a) Unconditioned stimulus

b) Conditioned stimulus

c) Unconditioned response

d) Conditioned response

e) Extinction

f) Spontaneous recovery

g) Higher-order conditioning

h) Stimulus generalization

i) Stimulus discrimination

34. Define and understand the relative effectiveness of each of the following:

a) delayed conditioning.

b) simultaneous conditioning.

c) trace conditioning.

d) backward conditioning.

35. Why is taste aversion considered to be a special case in learning theory?

36. Distinguish between positive and negative reinforcement and punishment.

37. Define and know the relative effectiveness of each of the following reinforcement schedules.

a) variable and fixed interval reinforcement schedules

b) variable and fixed ratio reinforcement schedules

c) continuous reinforcement schedule

38. Understand the current research findings on the effects of viewing violence in the media in children and adults.

39. Understand the following terms in memory theory:

a) procedural

b) episodic

c) semantic

d) iconic

e) acoustic

f) echoic

g) eidetic

h) elaborative rehearsal

40. Know the three stages of memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval.

41. Define and distinguish between dissociative, retrograde and anterograde amnesia.

42. Define and distinguish between achievement and intelligence.

43. Know who developed the theory of multiple intelligences.

44. Understand that the Wechsler intelligence scales highlight children's relative strengths and weaknesses as well as measure overall intellectual functioning.

45. The Wechsler scales are made up of subtests grouped into what two categories?

46. According to the Wechsler scales, the middle 50% of scores fall within the "broad average range". Know this range.

47. Understand the following terms in drive reduction theory:

a) Need

b) Drive

c) Homeostasis

d) primary drive.

e) acquired drive.

48. Understand the basic orientation of Maslow鈥檚 hierarchy of needs. (you will not have to name them.)

49. Understand Attitude-discrepant behavior and justification of effort as used with cognitive dissonance theory.

50. Describe the personality theory of Freud and the defense mechanisms we covered in class.

51. Know the five common traits in the Trait theory of personality.

52. Understand how the concept of free-will is viewed by all the different perspectives we coverPsychology questions for a big test tommorow please help!!!!!!!!!!?
1) OK, I'll just write a book in this box.

2) What?

3) Ask 100 psychologists, get 100 answers.

4) In the world? In the USA? How are you defining a psychologist? In the UK, anyone can call themselves a psychologist.

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50) Right, I'll just go and find out what was in your class. Even though I don't know *which* class.

51) Here's a clue: OCEAN.

52) And that would require knowing the perspectives you cover.



I think you get the gist. These are not answerable questions. Hopelessly optimistic just pasting them here. I suspect you're going to fail. But you're going to deserve it.Psychology questions for a big test tommorow please help!!!!!!!!!!?
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