PSYC 2250 Midterm 1 Exam Questions With Correct Answers

PSYC 2250 Midterm 1 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers


5 general methods on how people hold beliefs about the world -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-tenacity | |




authority |




intuition |




rationalism |




empiricism


tenacity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Hanging on to something persistently
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or stubbornly
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authority - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the power or right to give orders,
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make decisions, and enforce obedience.
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intuition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the ability to understand something
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immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.
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type 1 thinking - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-fast and easy thinking
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, availability heuristic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-making a decision based
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on the answer that most easily comes to mind
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Rationalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-belief in reason and logic as the
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primary source of knowledge, type of type 2 thinking
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Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the gathering of information and
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evidence using one's senses | | |




what is an early belief about where memory is stored ? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-memory is stored I'm the heart | | | | |




the 2 philosophers that said a mind separate from the brain - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-rene descartes and immanuel kant | | | |




___ made the first experimental psych lab - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Wilhelm wundt |




Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-used psychophysics experiments
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to measure human sensations (mode, intensity, quality)
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___ established first psych lab in north America - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Edward titchener |