Pshycology

Psychology Homework – Week 3

Critical Thinking Questions

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Q2: Observational Learning has benefited me in many ways my whole life. One example is that I watched my mother treat my step-father like a king, she catered to him, and now that I have a significant other, I treat him that exact same way. Another example was when I use to watch my mother while she was driving; I learned to drive at age 11 and got my driver’s license at the age of 16. I passed the driving test on my first try. The only instance in which observational learning has worked to my disadvantage was when I use to see my mother fighting with my father physically. I used that same aggression throughout my school days. I would always pick fights in school especially with the boys and this caused me to get suspended from school often.

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Q5: As an eyewitness to a crime, I would keep practicing the specific details over and over because practicing is important to memory; it keeps the information active in Short-Term Memory. This process is called maintenance rehearsal. If I need the information for a longer period of time, I would need to store the information in my Long-Term Memory; this would require deeper levels of processing called elaborative rehearsal. If I were a juror, I would tell the other jurors that the reliability of eyewitness testimony is most credible only when a short period of time has passed. After some time passes you are more liable to forget because if you couldn’t forget, your mind would be filled with meaningless data, such as what you ate for breakfast every morning of your life.

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Q1: During problem solving, I primarily use algorithms. I think I use this because I have a photographic memory and like to solve problems following steps and sequences. The advantages of heuristics are that we judge the likelihood of an event based on how easily recalled other instances of the event are. The advantages of algorithms are that they simplify and...