PSYCHOLOGY FINAL CH. 8-15 REVIEW
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE DETAILED
ANSWERS.VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
a shared set of beliefs, behaviors, values, and attitudes held by a group of people or a society - answer
✔✔-Culture
a culture's understood rules for expected behavior, values, beliefs, and attitudes - answer ✔✔-Norms
the process of adapting to a new culture by adopting the new culture's beliefs and behaviors - answer
✔✔-Acculturation
a cultural style that emphasizes the importance of individuality, independence, and personal needs -
answer ✔✔-Individualist Culture
a cultural style that emphasizes the importance of interdependence, group goals, and group needs. -
answer ✔✔-Collectivist Culture
found across all cultures - answer ✔✔-Universal
found only in particular cultures - answer ✔✔-Culture-Bound
the psychological aspects of being male or female - answer ✔✔-Gender
the individual's sense of being male or female - answer ✔✔-Gender Identity
, the culture's expectations for masculine or feminine behavior, including attitudes, actions, and
personality traits associated with being male or female in that culture - answer ✔✔-Gender Roles
an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters it as it stores it away,
and then retrieves the information from storage - answer ✔✔-Memory
the set of mental operations that people perform on sensory information to convert that information
into a form that is usable in the brain's storage systems - answer ✔✔-Encoding
holding onto information for some period of time - answer ✔✔-Storage
getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used - answer ✔✔-Retrieval
the very first stage of memory, the point at which information enters the nervous system through the
sensory systems - answer ✔✔-Sensory Memory
the memory system in which information is held for brief periods of time while being used - answer
✔✔-Short-Term Memory
the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input - answer ✔✔-Selective Attention
practice of saying some information to be remembered over and over in one's head in order to maintain
it in short-term memory (STMs tend to be encoded in auditory form) - answer ✔✔-Maintenance
Rehearsal
a method of transferring information from STM into LTM by making that information meaningful in
some way - answer ✔✔-Elaborative Rehearsal
the system of memory into which all the information is placed to be kept more or less permanently -
answer ✔✔-Long-Term Memory
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE DETAILED
ANSWERS.VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
a shared set of beliefs, behaviors, values, and attitudes held by a group of people or a society - answer
✔✔-Culture
a culture's understood rules for expected behavior, values, beliefs, and attitudes - answer ✔✔-Norms
the process of adapting to a new culture by adopting the new culture's beliefs and behaviors - answer
✔✔-Acculturation
a cultural style that emphasizes the importance of individuality, independence, and personal needs -
answer ✔✔-Individualist Culture
a cultural style that emphasizes the importance of interdependence, group goals, and group needs. -
answer ✔✔-Collectivist Culture
found across all cultures - answer ✔✔-Universal
found only in particular cultures - answer ✔✔-Culture-Bound
the psychological aspects of being male or female - answer ✔✔-Gender
the individual's sense of being male or female - answer ✔✔-Gender Identity
, the culture's expectations for masculine or feminine behavior, including attitudes, actions, and
personality traits associated with being male or female in that culture - answer ✔✔-Gender Roles
an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters it as it stores it away,
and then retrieves the information from storage - answer ✔✔-Memory
the set of mental operations that people perform on sensory information to convert that information
into a form that is usable in the brain's storage systems - answer ✔✔-Encoding
holding onto information for some period of time - answer ✔✔-Storage
getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used - answer ✔✔-Retrieval
the very first stage of memory, the point at which information enters the nervous system through the
sensory systems - answer ✔✔-Sensory Memory
the memory system in which information is held for brief periods of time while being used - answer
✔✔-Short-Term Memory
the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input - answer ✔✔-Selective Attention
practice of saying some information to be remembered over and over in one's head in order to maintain
it in short-term memory (STMs tend to be encoded in auditory form) - answer ✔✔-Maintenance
Rehearsal
a method of transferring information from STM into LTM by making that information meaningful in
some way - answer ✔✔-Elaborative Rehearsal
the system of memory into which all the information is placed to be kept more or less permanently -
answer ✔✔-Long-Term Memory
