Psychology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Sociology Exam Questions with Complete Solutions Sociology particularly places special emphasis on studying societies, both as individual entities and as elements of a global perspective. Auguste Comte - ANSWER ; Father of Sociology. Began studying as a result of the chaos following the French and Industrial Revolutions. Most of his finding have been disregarded as they were based on personal observation rather than objective investigation. Scientific Method - ANSWER A logical, syst...

Psychology: Themes and Variations 6th Edition. Doug McCann, Wayne Weiten & Deborah Matheson. TEST BANK TABLE OF CON TENTS Chapter 1: The Evolution of Psychology Chapter 2: The Research Enterprise in Psychology Chapter 3: The Biological Bases of Behaviour Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception Chapter 5: Variations in Consciousness Chapter 6: Learning Chapter 7: Human Memory Chapter 8: Language and Thought Chapter 9: Intelligence and Psychological Testing Chapter 10: Motivation and Emotion Chapter 1...

Clayton's Basic Pharmacology for Nurses: Chapter 3 Drug Action Across the Life Span Exam Questions and Answers | 100% Correct | Updated 2024 list of factors identified as contributors to the variable response to drugs -Answer-- age - body weight - gender - metabolic rate - psychology - tolerance - dependence - cumulative effect age ranges most sensitive to the effects of drugs: -Answer-infants and very old most pediatric doses are caculated by _____________________ per ___________...

Psychology Final: Crash Course Questions & Answers • "Little Albert" experiment - ANSWER: conditioned a young child, to fear a white rat. He accomplished this by pairing the rat with a loud, scary noise, over and over and then demonstrated that the child's terror could branch out and be generalized to include other furry, white objects... like bunnies, dogs, or even fur coats. • "Skinner Box" - ANSWER: a confined space containing a lever or button that an animal could touch to get...

Introduction to Psychology : Semester Exam Question & Answers • altered state of consciousness - ANSWER: state in which there is a shift in the quality or pattern of mental activity as compared to waking consciousness • Amygdala - ANSWER: two lima bean-sized neural clusters in the limbic system; linked to emotion. • autonomic nervous system - ANSWER: A subdivision of the peripheral nervous system. Controls involuntary activity of visceral muscles and internal organs and glands. • ...

Chapter 11: Openstax Psychology Questions & Answers • 1st Year of Life (Trust vs. Mistrust) - ANSWER: Erikson's Psychosocial Stages that corresponds with Freud's Oral Stage • 2nd Year (Autonomy vs. Doubt) - ANSWER: Erikson's Psychosocial Stages that corresponds with Freud's Anal Stage • 3 ways the environment interacts with the individual and vice versa through reciprocal determinism - ANSWER: 1. Different people choose different environments • 2. Our personalities shape how w...

Chapter 9: Openstax Psychology Question & Answers • accommodation - ANSWER: adjustment of a schema by changing a scheme to accommodate new information • different from what was already known • adolescence - ANSWER: period of development that begins at puberty and ends at early adulthood • assimilation - ANSWER: adjustment of a schema by adding information similar to what is already known • attachment - ANSWER: long-standing connection or bond with others • authoritarian pare...

Midterm Review: AP Psychology Question & Answers • absolute threshold - ANSWER: the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time. • key word = minimum • accomodation - ANSWER: the process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina. • key word = shape change • achievement test - ANSWER: a test designed to assess what a person has learned • acquisition - ANSWER: in classical conditioning, the initial st...

Test Bank for Social Psychology 11th Edition by Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Samuel R Sommers, Elizabeth Page-Gould, Neil Lewis. Contents: Introducing Social Psychology Methodology: How Social Psychologists Do Research Social Cognition: How We Think About the Social World Social Perception: How We Come to Understand Other People The Self: Understanding Ourselves in a Social Context Cognitive Dissonance and the Need to Protect Our Self-Esteem Attitudes and Attitude Change: Influencing Thoug...