<p>is knowing the princeton book inside and out enough to get a 5? like i basically didn't have a class but i just heard psych was rediculously easy.</p>
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<p>1) Explain the difference between Yerke-Dodsons rule and social facilitation and social impairment.</p>
<p>Bonus: Explain and give an example of metacognition.</p>
<p>Social Facilitation. You do something better when people are watching.
Social Impariment. You do something worse when people are watching.
not sure about Yerke-Dodsons rule.</p>
<p>yerkes dodson law states that tasks of moderate difficult elicit the highest level of performance.</p>
<p>Explain and give an example of metacognition.</p>
<p>I can't find metacognition in the index of my textbook, but I know I read about it somewhere. I just can't remember what it is...</p>
<p>Metacognition is thinking about thinking. I can't think of an example though.</p>
<p>Good enough.</p>
<p>List and explain four random stages in Erikson's Psychosocial Stage Theory.</p>
<p>trust vs. mistrust- infants don't know if the world is hostile or not.
autonomy vs. shame and dubt- 1-3, child learns toilet training
initiative vs. guilt- children start socializing.
industry and inferiority- children can either gain a sense of accomplishment or inferiority.</p>
<p>discuss the neodissociative theory</p>
<p>neodissociative theory: state-dependent memory and learning is a kind of mental dissociation, or intense episode of day-dreaming</p>
<p>Hold on the definition for metacognition is correct, but (1) give an example, this is very hard to understand without clear example, as this concept is hard to recognize on a test.</p>
<p>(2) State the difference between the subconscious and unconscious (besides the fact that Freud never used the term subconscious).</p>
<p>from wikipedia...
an example of metacognition is "it refers to the beliefs that people have about how their memory and cognition work (which are frequently incorrect). As another example, it refers to cognitive strategies students use to achieve a particular goal, such as asking oneself a question about a textbook passage."</p>
<p>dunno bout #2</p>
<p>i am not sure of number 2 either, but is it that the "subconscious" is the repressed feelings and emotions, and "unconscious" is the information that can be brought to conscious awareness with a cue or something? or is that preconscious?</p>
<p>uhh i think you might have that backwards</p>
<p>yeah i dont know.</p>
<p>unconcious is Freud's repression thingamagig and isn't proven</p>
<p>subconscious has the stuff that we know must exist but that we are not consciously aware of</p>
<p>It's really confusing. I'm sure that, for the exam, being able to associate the unconscious with Freud, and the subconscious with priming/mere-exposure effect, will suffice. However, if you're looking for a concrete definition, I don't really have one. The way I see it, the subconscious is an active entity that we have some level of control over (when preparing for a test, for instance, rereading the questions you had for homework may help you answer similar questions on the test, just because you already saw them in the homework), but the unconscious is completely out of our control. We do not consciously decide what to repress and what not to. I don't think most of this is necessary, but I hope I helped.</p>
<p>So, explain the difference between an MRI scan and an fMRI scan.</p>
<p>ok here's what my psych teacher says:
unconscious is repressed memories that you don't want to talk about (e.g. the day you called your teacher your mom or something). These are based off Freud's psychoanalytic studies.
subconscious is repressed memories that are EXTREMELY hard to get out (impossible to remember unless special therapy). For example, a child-molest case when you were little and you are 30 now and don't remember what happened... but could surface with therapy.</p>
<p>Now to answer the latest question: MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and fMRI is functional " ". The difference is that with fMRI, the image can be seen in video footage (motion)... for example an fMRI of the brain will actually see the brain's processes</p>
<p>Sorry... now my question </p>
<p>describe the history of IQ tests and what is the major problem of them today</p>
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subconscious is repressed memories that are EXTREMELY hard to get out (impossible to remember unless special therapy). For example, a child-molest case when you were little and you are 30 now and don't remember what happened... but could surface with therapy.
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<p>I'm sorry, but I really don't think that's true. Firstly, therapy that seeks to uncover repressed memories is not very common, and if it were to happen, it would be a purely psychoanalytic process.</p>