CP Psychology

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CP Psychology

• Intro to Psychology
• Levels of Truth

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What is Psychology?

• Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
• Everything people think, feel, and do
• Many different fields of psychology

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True/False 1

• The behavior of most lower animalsinsects,
  reptiles, and amphibians, most rodents, and
  birdsis instinctive and unaffected by learning

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True/False 2

• For the first week of life, a baby sees nothing
  but a gray blur, regardless of what he or she
  looks at.

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True/False 3

• A child learns to talk more quickly if the adults
  around the child habitually repeat the word he or
  she is trying to say, using proper pronunciation.

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True/False 4

• The best way to get a chronically noise child to
  settle down and pay attention is to punish him/her

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True/False 5

• Slow learners remember more of what they learn
  than fast learners

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True/False 6

• Highly intelligent people, a.k.a. geniuses, tend
  to be physically frail and socially isolated

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True/False 7

• On the average, you cannot predict from a
  persons grades at school and college whether he
  or she will do well in a career

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True/False 8

• Most stereotypes are completely true

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True/False 9

• In small amounts, alcohol is a stimulant

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True/False 10

• LSD causes chromosome damage

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True/False 11

• Psychiatry is a subdivision of psychology

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True/False 12

• Most mentally retarded people are also mentally
  ill

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True/False 13

• Electroshock therapy is an outmoded technique
  rarely used in todays mental hospitals

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True/False 14

• The more severe the disorder, the more intensive
  the therapy required to cure it for example
  schizophrenics usually respond best to
  psychoanalysis

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True/False 15

• Nearly all the psychological characteristics of
  men and women appear to be inborn in all
  cultures, for example, women are more emotional
  and sexually less aggressive than men

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Levels of Truth

• Intuition use of nonrational, nonconscious
  abilities
• Gut feeling
• Authority rely on someone elses knowledge and
  expertise
• Expert tells us it is true

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Levels of Truth

• Rationalism rely on rules of logic or reasoning
• Empiricism rely on objective observational
  techniques.
• Scientific Method