Common Assessment Unit 1-2 Review

A school of psychology that emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth through the influence of their environment and needs for love and acceptance.

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Humanistic

This approach focuses on the learning process and learning behavior.

• Behavioral

• Cognitive

• Biological

This approach focuses on mental processes such a memory, thinking, problem-solving, language and decision making.

• Behavioral

• Cognitive

• Biological

This approach focuses on genetics and how we are a product of our genes.

• Behavioral

• Cognitive

• Biological

This approach examines different cultures that people live in and look at how these environments can influence individuals behavior and decision making.

• Socio-cultural

• Evolutionary

• Biopsychosocial

The process of grouping items to make them easier to remember

• encoding

• recognition

• chunking

• episodic

If you recite the rhyme "Thirty days has September, April, June, and November" to remember the number of days in each month, you are using a(n)

• mental picture.

• mnemonic device.

• schema.

• mental picture.

The processing of information into the memory system.

• encoding
• storage
• retrieval
• automatic processing

The retention (saving) of encoded material over time.

• encoding
• storage
• retrieval
• rehearsal

The process of getting the information back out of memory storage.

• encoding
• storage
• retrieval
• Next-in-line-effect