PSYC-6101 - Introduction to Psychology oed answer key

Showing 121 to 140 of 227 total answers.

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

This is a special form of episodic memory, consisting of a person’s recollections of his or her life experiences.

Answer

. Autobiographical Memory

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

This requires the individual to choose between alternatives that contain both positive and negative consequences.

Answer

Multiple approach-avoidance conflict

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

It provides an objective description of how a variable is going to be measured and observed in a particular study.

Answer

Operational Definition

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

According to Freud, the surface content of a dream, containing dream symbols that disguise the dream’s true meaning

Answer

Manifest Content

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

It is the tendency for perceptions of objects to remain relatively unchanged in spite of changes in raw sensations.

Answer

Perceptual constancy

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

The sound wave is transduced into neural impulses in the ________, which is located in the cochlea in the inner ear

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

Conflicts over dangerous motives or feelings are avoided by unconsciously transforming them into the opposite desire

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

These are located at the ends of the axon where neurotransmitters are stored before being released into the synapse.

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

This regulates heartbeat and respiration and plays a role in sneezing, coughing, vomiting, swallowing and digestion.

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

A condition when individual forgets something because it is so painful or anxiety laden that remembering is intolerable

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

These reinforcers are learned by association, usually via classical conditioning like money, grades, and peer approval.

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

It is a long tail-like structure growing out of the other end of the cell which carries signals away from the cell body.

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

These are strategies that comes in different forms such as formulas, instructions, and the testing of possible solutions.

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

It consists of unconscious drives and is the individual’s reservoir of sexual energy. It works for the pleasure principle.

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

The activation of information that people already have in storage to help them remember new information better and faster.

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

The theoretical approach to psychological disorders that attributes psychological disorders to organic and internal causes

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

This is the most primitive defense mechanism, in which the ego simply refuses to acknowledge anxiety- producing realities.

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

It is the most powerful and pervasive defense mechanism. It pushes unacceptable id impulses back into the unconscious mind.

#PSYC-6101
Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

The more hours that students work, the less successful they are academically. This is an example of what type of correlation?

Page 7 of 12

1...56789...12