Psychology end of semester exam

Nurture

________: The belief that traits and personality are a direct result of how someone was raised.

Recklessness

________ because they have an illusion of invulnerability and their frontal cortex is not connected to the back of the brain.

Correlation

________: the similarities or common things in studies.

Reliability

________: If you could repeat the study in a short period of time and get the same results.

Validity

________: instruments measure what they are suppose to measure.

Stages of memory

________: encoding, storage, and retrieval.

Comparative

________: Describe and compare the characteristics of two or more groups.

Simple

________: Describe the characteristics of a group of participants.

Tree List

________- Tree, lightswitch, stool, car, glove, gun, dice, skating, cat, bowling, goalpost, eggs, witch, ring, paycheck, drivers licance, magazine, truck, golf clubs, ciggerettes.

Descriptive Research

What is happening

Simple

Describe the characteristics of a group of participants

Comparative

Describe and compare the characteristics of two or more groups

Correlation

the similarities or common things in studies

Independent Variable

Treatment for One Group (Experimental Group) Group)

Dependent Variable

Resulting Change from Independent Variable

Quantitative Research

Number data

Qualitative Research

Comments

Validity

instruments measure what they are suppose to measure

Reliability

If you could repeat the study in a short period of time and get the same results

Nature

The belief that all traits of someone is from them and only them

Nurture

The belief that traits and personality are a direct result of how someone was raised

Classical conditioning

Learning unconsciously

Operent conditioning

Learning concisely to modify a voluntary behavior

Stages of memory

encoding, storage, and retrieval

Tree list related to stages of memory

It is encoded when you memorise and assosiate the tree list item with the other item, it is stored in the long term memory and retrived when you need it

Tree List

Tree, lightswitch, stool, car, glove, gun, dice, skating, cat, bowling, goalpost, eggs, witch, ring, paycheck, drivers licance, magazine, truck, golf clubs, ciggerettes

Stage 1 of sleep

Pulse slows down, mustles relac, breatheing becomes uneven, brain waves irregular, lasts 7 minutes, eaisly startled

Stage 2 of sleep

First NERM sleep, harder to wake up then stage 1, slow moving eye rolls, brain waves slow with bursts of rapid activity, body temp decreases

Stage 3 of sleep

Most restorative phase of sleep, unsists of delta and/or slow waves, its hard to wake someone up out of this, parasomnia

Stage 4 of sleep

Deepest stage of sleep, when you wake up you are very distorted, sleepwalking likely, gives you the best sleep, deep sleep caused by delta waves

Rem sleep

Mustles relaxed, face and fingers move and twitch, increased oxygin to brain, occours every 90 minutes, larger muscles paralyzed, when dreaming usually takes place