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Psych 101
Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Encoding specificity principle | the overlap of operations at encoding and operations at retrieval determines retrieval success - we are most likely to recall information in the environment they are learned in (3) |
| Depth of processing | Words processed at a deep level are better remembered than those processed at a shallow level - mnemonics, songs, etc (3) |
| Self-serving bias | The tendency to attribute good outcomes to something about us, but to discount bad outcomes as due to the situation or bad luck (3) |
| Willpower | The ability to engage in self-control (3) |
| Motivation | The reason for which humans and other animals initiate, continue, or terminate a behavior at a given time (3) |
| Stereotype threat | The fear of being judged on the basis of a negative stereotype can trigger anxiety that interferes with performance (3,6,7) |
| Piaget's theory | Cognitive development in 4 stages of development: sensorimotor, pre-operations, concrete operational, post operational (4) |
| Statistical learning | Forming associations among stimuli that occur in a statistically predictable pattern; babies sensitive to the regularity with which one stimulus follows another (4) |
| Fundamental attribution error | The tendency to believe that behavior is due to a person’s predisposition, rather than the situation at hand (4,5,8) |
| Tripartite theory | Id (unconscious, present from birth), ego (deals with reality and regulation), and superego (conscious, morals and ideals) (4) |
| Locus of control | People behave differently in a lab depending on whether they believe success depends on skill or luck (4) |
| Self-fulfilling prophecies | Beliefs we have of a person can influence their behavior (4,7) |
| Confirmation bias | People agree with the news that speaks to them the most (5) |
| Gender sharpening | Emphasizing details of a story that were consistent with cognitive framework, like gender (6) |
| Utility maximization theory | People seek to maximize pleasure (positive utility) and minimize pain (negative utility) (7) |
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