1) What is the major guiding theoretical framework for Psychological Science?
Answer for Q1
Psychological Science considered as
a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science with the theoretical
goal of predicting and controlling behavior.
2) Define
psychology and provide a rationale for why the answer to question #1 is so important.
Answer for Q2
Psychology is science of mind, of
mental state, and processes, and scientific approach is so important because of
unpredictable behavior and state of mind.
3) In 1-2
sentences describe why it’s important to study the brain in psychology.
Answer for Q3
It is important to study the brain
because every parts of the brain has functions, and it relates to every
behaviors that supported by specific brain activations.
4) What is the
field that presumes it can study the supernatural?
Answer for Q4
Parapsychology
5) Technically,
Psychology is a branch of what other scientific discipline?
Answer for Q5
Cognitive science
6) What is the
difference between a state and a trait? Give an example.
Answer for Q6
a) Mood state
is a temporary way of being.
b) Trait is a
stable or relatively unchanging characteristic.
Example: I am excited today.
(Relates my current mood)
7) Describe the
difference between top-down and bottom-up sensory processing. Give an example.
Answer for Q7
a) Top-down
processing: Sensory information is interpreted in light of existing
knowledge.
Example: When we read, we begin to
interpret the words and sentences based on our previous knowledge.
b) Bottom-up
processing: The brain takes in individual elements of a particular stimulus,
and then combines those elements into a "unified perception".
Example: When we read, our brain
takes in each letter individually rather than the entire word. The brain then
unifies those letters to obtain the word they're in.
8) (a) Why is
the “need to belong” motivation so strong in humans? (b) What happens to people
who do not belong or are excluded from a group? (c) Give an example of an
animal for which you would not hypothesize the “need to belong” motivation
would exist?
Answer for Section A, Q8
Strong desire: caring, affectionate
bonds.
Answer for Section B, Q8
Rude people do not belong to any
group
Answer for Section C, Q8
A dog can be an animal which I would
not hypothesize, but once I start to belong with, I would be adjusting because
of its nature is a so loving.
9) What is g?
Answer for Q9
General intelligence
10) What
part of the brain drives the fight/flight/freeze response?
Answer for Q10
The limbic system
11) Describe
the difference between conscious and unconscious processing. What did
Freud mean by the unconscious? How did Freud think the unconscious affected
behavior?
Answer for Q11
Section A, Q11.
Conscious: Knowing and
perceiving; and Unconscious: Not knowing and perceiving.
Section B,
Q11. Freud describes the
unconscious as the reservoir of all the thoughts that lie outside of awareness.
Section C,
Q11. Freud thinks that
the unconscious keeps driving our behavior and experience, even though we are
unaware of these basic influences.
12) Sexual
behavior is driven by what underlying process/motivation?
Answer for Q12
In many ways, emotion motivates the
sexual behavior. Having sex may be a means of expressing feelings towards a
partner as well as a way of deriving emotional satisfaction.
13) What is a
scientific Theory? Rank order the following scientific theories and give a
brief description of why you ranked them the way you did:
a. Gravitational Field Theory
b. Multiple
Intelligences theory
c. Evolutionary theory
Answer for Q13
A scientific theory is based on
careful examination of facts.
1. Evolutionary
theory
2. Gravitational
Field Theory
3. Multiple
Intelligences theory
After began setting up the
universal, physics play in our life and every species and human starts the
evolution, scientist proved that any two objects, no matter their mass, exert
gravitational force toward one another, and finally, multiple intelligences
provides a solid foundation upon which to identify, value and develop students'
abilities.
14) List
the 6 basic principles of critical thinking.
Answer for Q14
1. Extraordinary
claims
2. Falsifiability
3. Occam’s Razor
4. Replicability
5. Ruling out
Rival Hypotheses
6. Correlation
vs Causation
15) Describe
the difference between naturalistic
observation, correlational study, and experiment.
Answer for Q15
Naturalistic observation: carefully
observed in natural setting.
Correlational study: measuring the
relation between two variables.
Experiment: a study in which the
investigator manipulates at least one variable.
16) Design
an experiment to test social behavior in humans.
Answer for Q16
First of all, we need a controlled
environment where outside influences cannot interrupt our test and a soundproof
room where we could place a person in the room and introduce something to see
the reaction, like food.
17) Give
an example of social facilitation that happens in your life.
Answer for Q17
I would love to help people and make
them happy.
18) Describe
the features of the Implicit Associations Test and in your own words discuss the importance of this test in
studying prejudice and discrimination.
Answer for Q18
Many people who act like genuine,
but they are implicitly faking and unable to pure hearted person. I think this
test at least increases some genuine behavior or people.
19) With
respect to the bystander effect what is the most parsimonious explanation?
(HINT: it does not come from social psychology)
Answer for Q19
Diffuse of bystander, if someone in
the street pertaining or real to ill, but no one cares him and this makes me
feel so bad.
20) What is the
most interesting thing that you learned in this class?
Answer for Q20
I learned the ideas to see the world
in different perspective by feeling of awareness within and sense of activating
every parts of brain.
BONUS QUESTION:
Think of a personal experience in
your life; describe that experience. Given what you’ve learned about psychology
and the brain how would you change the way you approached that experience now?
After learning psychology, I have
gained tremendous amount of senses within and gained tricks of controlling of
negative and positive emotions. Moreover, learning of dealing with negative
emotions, stress, and anxieties put me to the next level of thinking process.
No comments:
Post a Comment