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behavioral psychology
Psychology 13th Edition David G. Myers, C. Nathan DeWall - Solutions
What are the characteristics of experiments that enable the isolation of cause and effectpg15
What are positive and negative correlations, and why do they allow for predictions without cause-effect conclusionspg15
How do psychologists use case studies, naturalistic observation, and surveys to describe behavior, and why is random sampling importantpg15
How do theories advance the field of psychological sciencepg15
How do the three main components of the scientific attitude relate to critical thinkingpg15
How do hindsight bias, overconfidence, and the tendency to find order in random events highlight the importance of science-based answerspg15
How do we determine if an observed difference can be generalized to other populationspg15
How can we describe data using measures of central tendency and variationpg15
What are positive and negative correlations, and why do they allow for predictions but not cause-effect explanationspg15
How can psychological principles help improve learning and memorypg15
What are the main subfields within psychologypg15
What are the levels of analysis and perspectives in psychologypg15
What is psychology’s historic big issuepg15
How did psychology evolve from the 1920s to the present daypg15
What are some significant milestones in the early development of psychologypg15
Do you often feel like you studied the wrong material for a testpg15
Do you find it challenging to concentrate for extended periods while studyingpg15
Do you generally attempt to summarize in your own words after finishing readingpg15
Do you try to predict test questions based on your class notes and readingspg15
Before reading a chapter in a textbook, do you preview it and check the section headingspg15
Do you frequently struggle to recall what you just read in a textbookpg15
Do you usually spend long hours studying one subject instead of dividing your time among severalpg15
Do other students seem to study less than you but achieve higher gradespg15
Do you often delay studying until time pressures push you to crampg15
Do you typically create a schedule to manage your time between studying, work, recreation, and other activitiespg15
9-11: What is the relationship between language and thinking, and what is the value of thinking in images?
9-10: Do other animals share our capacity for language?Thinking and Language
9-9: What brain areas are involved in language processing and speech?
9-8: How do we acquire language?
9-7: What are the milestones in language development?
9-6: What are the structural components of a language?
9-5: What do we know about animal thinking?Language
9-4: How do smart thinkers use intuition?
9-3: What is intuition, and how can the availability heuristic, overconfidence, belief perseverance, and framing influence our decisions and judgments?
9-2: What cognitive strategies assist our problem solving, and what obstacles hinder it?
9-1: What is cognition, and what are the functions of concepts?
8-19: How can you use memory research findings to do better in this and other courses?
8-18: How reliable are young children’s eyewitness descriptions, and why are reports of repressed and recovered memories so hotly debated?Improving Memory
8-16: Why do we forget?Memory Construction Errors
8-15: How do external cues, internal emotions, and order of appearance influence memory retrieval?Forgetting
8-14: What are three measures of retention?
8-13: How do changes at the synapse level affect our memory processing?Retrieval: Getting Information Out
8-12: How do emotions affect our memory processing?
8-11: What role do the cerebellum and basal ganglia play in our memory processing?
8-10: What is the role of the frontal lobes and hippocampus in memory storage?
8-9: What is the capacity and location of our longterm memories?
8-8: What are the levels of processing, and how do they affect encoding?Memory Storage
8-7: What are some effortful processing strategies that can help us remember new information?
8-6: What is the capacity of our short-term and working memory?
8-5: How does sensory memory work?
8-4: What information do we automatically process?
8-3: How are explicit and implicit memories distinguished?Building Memories
8-2: How do psychologists describe the human memory system?
8-1: What is memory?
How do misinformation, imagination, and source amnesia influence our memory construction? How do we decide whether a memory is real or false?
7-14: What is the impact of prosocial modeling and of antisocial modeling?
7-13: What is observational learning, and how do some scientists believe it is enabled by mirror neurons?
7-12: How do cognitive processes affect classical and operant conditioning?Learning by Observation
7-11: How do biological constraints affect classical and operant conditioning?
7-10: How does operant conditioning differ from classical conditioning?Biology, Cognition, and Learning
7-9: Why did Skinner’s ideas provoke controversy, and how might his operant conditioning principles be applied at school, in sports, at work, and at home?
7-8: How does punishment differ from negative reinforcement, and how does punishment affect behavior?
7-2: What are the basic components of classical conditioning, and what was behaviorism’s view of learning?
7-1: What is learning, and what are some basic forms of learning?Classical Conditioning
How do different reinforcement schedules affect behavior?
How do positive and negative reinforcement differ, and what are the basic types of reinforcers?
How is operant behavior reinforced and shaped?
Why does Pavlov’s work remain so important, and what have been some applications of his work to human health and well-being?
In classical conditioning, what are the processes of acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization, and discrimination?
6-19: How do we sense our body’s position and movement?
6-17: How can we best understand and control pain?
6-16: How do we sense touch?
6-11: How do perceptual constancies help us organize our sensations into meaningful perceptions?
6-8: What theories help us understand color vision?
6-4: What is the function of sensory adaptation?
6-1: What are sensation and perception? What do we mean by bottom-up processing and topdown processing?
What are the claims of ESP, and what have most research psychologists concluded after putting these claims to the test?
How does our system for sensing smell differ from our sensory systems for vision, touch, and taste?
How do we experience taste and smell, and how do they interact?
How do we locate sounds?
What theories help us understand pitch perception?
What are the characteristics of air pressure waves that we hear as sound, and how does the ear transform sound energy into neural messages?
What does research on restored vision, sensory restriction, and perceptual adaptation reveal about the effects of experience on perception?
How do we use binocular and monocular cues to perceive the world in three dimensions and perceive motion?
How did the Gestalt psychologists understand perceptual organization, and how do figure-ground and grouping principles contribute to our perceptions?
How do the eye and the brain process visual information?
What is the energy that we see as visible light, and how does the eye transform light energy into neural messages?
How do our expectations, contexts, emotions, and motivation influence our perceptions?
What are the absolute and difference thresholds, and do stimuli below the absolute threshold have any influence on us?
What three steps are basic to all our sensory systems?
11. Which of the following ESP phenomena is supported by solid, replicable scientific evidence?a. Telepathyb. Clairvoyancec. Precognitiond. None of these answers
10. A food’s aroma can greatly enhance its taste. This is an example ofa. olfaction.b. synesthesia.c. kinesthesia.d. sensory interaction.
9. Why do you feel a little dizzy immediately after a roller-coaster ride?
8. is your sense of body position and movement. Your specifically monitors your head’s movement, with sensors in the inner ear.
7. We have specialized nerve receptors for detecting which five tastes? How did this ability aid our ancestors?
6. How does the biopsychosocial approach explain our experience of pain?Provide examples.
5. The gate-control theory of pain proposes thata. special pain receptors send signals directly to the brain.b. the pain gate is controlled by the thalamus.c. small spinal cord nerve fibers conduct most pain signals, but large-fiber activity can close access to those pain signals.d. pain can often
4. The sensory receptors that are found mostly in the skin and that detect painful temperatures, pressure, or chemicals are called .
3. theory explains how we hear high-pitched sounds, and theory explains how we hear low-pitched sounds.
2. What are the basic steps in transforming sound waves into perceived sound?
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