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Fall Final Review Answers. What is chunking?. Chunking is a way to remember pieces of information, and is associated with short-term memory. What is interference?. Blocking of a memory by previous or subsequent memories. What is the difference between recognition and recall?.
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What is chunking? • Chunking is a way to remember pieces of information, and is associated with short-term memory
What is interference? • Blocking of a memory by previous or subsequent memories
What is the difference between recognition and recall? • With recognition you are able to remember information with assistance • With recall, you are able to retrieve information without assistance
What kind of capacity does short-term memory have? • a limited capacity
How many items can you hold in short-term memory? • Seven items
What are the three memory processes? • Encoding, Storage, Retrieval
What are mnemonic devices? • A memory technique used to remember information • Example: Great Lakes (HOMES)
What is procedural memory? • Remembering how to do something that comes automatically • Example: Jumping Rope
What are the three types of memory? • Sensory, short-term, and long-term
What can result in forgetting? • Decay, Repression, and Interference
What are the three types of memory? • Sensory, short-term, and long-term
What is recall? • Memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned materials
What is long-term memory? • Storage of information over periods of time
What is episodic memory? • Memory of one's own life
What is confabulation? • The act of filling in memory gaps
What is maintenance rehearsal? • Remembering information by repeating it
What is semantic memory? • Knowledge of language
What is repression? • Associated with Sigmund Freud; we do not think about things that are too painful
What is elaborate rehearsal? • Linking new information to already known material
What is reconstructive memory? • Memory that has been amplified
What is primary appraisal? • your immediate evaluation of a situation
What occurs during the “alarm” stage? • The mobilization for "fight or flight"
If a child wants to pet a dog, but is afraid the dog will bite him, what kind of approach to the situation is this? • Approach-avoidance
What is eustress? • Positive stress
What could long term exposure to stressful situations do to your immune system? • Weaken it
What do the vast majority of psychologists study? • everyday behaviors and feelings
What is a hypothesis? • is an educated guess
What is a complex explanation based on findings from many studies called? • theory
What is applied science? • using psychological principles to solve immediate problems
Who was the first modern psychologist? • Wilheim Wundt
What kind of psychology is associated with Maslow and Rogers? • humanistic psychology
What is associated with B.F. Skinner? • Reinforcement, behaviorism, and Walden Two
Which group in an experiment is exposed to the independent variable? • the experimental group
What is the variable that experimenters manipulate? • independent variable
What is the most important rule of naturalistic observation? • avoid disturbing the participants
What is a longitudinal study? • Psychologists study the same group of participants at regular intervals over a period of years
If the participants and the experimenter do not know who is in the control group of an experiment, the experiment is considered to be double-blind.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? • When researchers unknowingly bring about the situation they expected to find
How do you calculate median? • Put the group of numbers in numerical order, and the number in the middle is the median
How do you calculate mode? • Mode is the number that appears the most frequently in a set of numbers
What is the measure of the degree of relatedness between two variables? correlation
What is used to show frequency distribution? • histogram
What is variance? • Indicates how spread out the scores of a distribution are
What is sample? • A relatively small group of the total population that is to be studied
What is a single-blind experiment? • Only the participants do not know if they are in the control group or experimental group
What is a double-blind experiment? • Neither the participants nor the experimenter know which group the participants are in
What does the autonomic nervous system regulate? • involuntary muscles and organs