HSP3M Ch # 3: Psychology and Human Mental Processes

Questions:

1. Chapter Vocabulary:

Key Term Definition & Example Psychology

Psychoanalysis

Cognitive Psychology

Sensation

Perception

Cognition

Conditioning

Deductive Reasoning

Inductive Reasoning

Dialectical Reasoning

2. Create a timeline that shows the emergence of the six branches of psychology discussed in Chapter 3. On the timeline, record the main idea of each branch.

3. a) What are the three types of work psychologists do?

b) Which type of psychologist’s work would be best for your particular abilities and personality? Why? 4. What is the difference between sensation and perception?

5. What three factors influence our perception?

6. Fill in the table about the two sources of behaviour and their advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages Disadvantages Learning

Innate Drives & Instinctive Reactions

7. What are the two major types of learning?

8. What is the difference between classical and operant conditioning?

9. Why is observational learning so important?

10. What 4 processes are crucial to observational learning?

iv) 11. Define the three kinds of memory:

i) Episodic Memory:

ii) Semantic Memory:

iii) Procedural Memory:

12. What are the three levels of memory? Explain them briefly. i) ii) iii)

13. How can memory be improved?

14. How do we develop concepts?

15. What are the three major forms of reasoning? Give an example of each.

i) ______:

ii) ______:

iii) ______:

16. Which strategies help us solve problems? 17. What are the four stages of the decision-making process?

i) ______:

ii) ______:

iii) ______:

iv) ______:

18. What stages do we go through while we sleep?

19. What is REM sleep?

20. How do scientists know that REM sleep is important?

21. How do cognitive psychologists explain the value of dreams?

22. Define the following:

Hallucinations:

Visions:

Hypnosis:

Delusions: