Question

Discovering Psychology: Past, Present, and Promise

Scene: A Candid Camera scenario.   Public v. Private behavior

3. Why are the girls laughing?    (Much humor is based on this)
   1. they’re nervous
   2. the girls are excited
   3. they feel self-conscious
   4. their expectations were violated

4. Causes of behavior: the situation v. the environment.

Genetic make up, personality traits, and attitudes are known as ____________________ factors.                

External things, such as the environment and sensory information are known as ________________________ factors.

Interview: The P300 Brain Wave: Psychologist Emanuel Donchin demonstrates the brain’s reaction to surprise through the use of the EEG

5. Studying brain waves relates to the _____________ level of analysis.   But most psychologists study the __________ level of analysis.

Interview: Robert Rosenthal Discusses Body Language

6. When are you most likely to detect a liar?   If you want to catch a liar pay attention to what?
   1. by looking at facial expression
   2. by studying body language
   3. by listening to the tone of voice
7. Investigating large units of behavior operates at the _____________ level.

Example: studying violent behavior or sexual attraction

8. What were the results for white and black respondents?

9. Neuroscientist Elizabeth Phelps takes Banaji’s data and compares it with activity in the amygdala, our emotion center, deep in the brain.    What were her results?
   1. those who showed a strong amygdala activation for black faces also showed a preference for white faces on the IAT
   2. there is more activity in the amygdala when we see a face we like

Part II. The Origins of Psychology

11. Wundt emphasized the study of:

a. emotions

b. consciousness

c. reactions to sensory stimuli

d. none of these

12. G. Stanley Hall founded the first American psychology lab in ________. Hall introduced Americans to the famous Austrian psychologist _____________    _____________.

13. The most significant date in psychology was ___________ when William James published Principles of Psychology.

   

14. James emphasized topics such as:

a. emotions

b. consciousness

c. responses to stimuli

d.   a and b

15. Wundt and his followers criticized James because:
    1. he used animals in his experiments
    2. he wasn’t scientific

16. Wundt advocated the study of psychophysics, or:
    1. how we react to stimuli
    2. how we respond emotionally to stress

Answer 1

• ANSWER-Genetic make up, personality traits, and attitudes are known as dispositional factors. Dispositional factors include the individual characteristics which influences a person's behaviour and actions.
• ANSWER-External things, such as the environment and sensory information are known as situational factors.Situational factors are basically those influences which are not within the indiviudal but exists outside in an individual's surroundings causing an influence on the behaviour.
• ANSWER-Wundt emphasized the study of of conscious experience.He scientifically studied consciousness using introspection.
• ANSWER-According to Rosenthal,you are most likely to detect a liar by listening to the tone of the voice.
• ANSWER-The most significant date in psychology was 1890 when William James published Principles of Psychology.
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