PSY-101 Exam 1 Review

When your thinking is automatic, effortless, and passive, you are engaging in __________ processing.

• experimental

• reflective

• contextual

• reactive

Which type of processing can help you learn more from a textbook and better understand and remember details?

• automatic processing

• experimental processing

• reflective processing

• retroactive processing

When the study of material is deliberately self-reflective and actively self-guided, it is known as

• massed practice

• experimental recitation

• self-regulated learning

• classical conditioning

To help the student study in smaller “bites,” the textbook is divided into short sections that end with a study guide that contains Recite questions as well as the Think Critically and Self-Reflect questions for students to check how well he or she remembers what was read. These study guides found after each short reading section are called?

• Reflection Signpost

• Study Breaks

• Discovering Psychology

• Clinical Files

Psychology is best defined as the

• empirical study of the human personality

• study of individual differences in the group behavior of humans and animals.

• scientific study of overt behavior and mental processes.

• scientific study of the relationship between mind and body

Professor Windham asks her general psychology students to give an example of an overt behavior. Which of the following would be an example of an overt behavior?

• gesturing to someone to come over to the group

• feeling happy that class is almost over

• daydreaming about the coming weekend

• remembering the definition of overt behavior

In order to find out whether “the clothes make the man” or whether “one can’t judge a book by its cover,” researchers scientifically observe people who are well dressed and people who are not and determine who fares better in a variety of situations. The information that these researchers gained would be considered __________ evidence.

• intuitive

• introspective

• empirical

• commonsense

The goals of psychology are to

• develop effective methods of psychotherapy and cure mental illness.

• describe, understand, predict, and control behavior.

• research, infer, summarize, and publish.

• compare, analyze, and control human behavior.

The first psychological laboratory in Leipzig, Germany was set up in order to

• break down conscious experiences, such as sensations.

• study how the use of reinforcement and punishment alter behaviors.

• understand the unconscious conflicts individuals experience.

• understand how language and intelligence develop.

Humanistic theories emphasize

• internal motives, conflicts, and unconscious forces.

• free will and self-determination.

• that stimulus and response connections determine behavior

• the use of rewards and punishments to shape behavior