Psych 100 Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions 2024/2025
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Psych 100 Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions 2024/2025
Sigmund Freud - Correct Answer believes that behavior is explained in terms of inherited instincts, biological drive, and attempts to resolve conflicts, he also focuses on the unconscious minds
psychology - Correct Answer the scientif...
Psych 100 Exam Study Guide with Complete
Solutions 2024/2025
Sigmund Freud - Correct Answer believes that behavior is explained in terms of inherited instincts,
biological drive, and attempts to resolve conflicts, he also focuses on the unconscious minds
psychology - Correct Answer the scientific study of the behavior of individuals and their mental
processes
behavior - Correct Answer the observable actions by which an organism adjusts to its environment
goals of psychology - Correct Answer 1. measuring and describing what will happen
2. explaining what will happen
3. predicting what will happen
4. controlling what will happen
quoted "psychology has a long history but a short past" - Correct Answer H. Ebbinghaus, 1908
said that all human mental experience can be understood as a combination of simple elements or
events - Correct Answer Wilhelm Wundt
Edward Titchener
dealt with functionism and minds with a purpose and a property - Correct Answer William James
three perspectives on psychology - Correct Answer psychodynamic perspective
behavioral perspective
cognitive perspective
key figure in psychodynamic perspective - Correct Answer Sigmund Freud
key figures in behavioral perspectives - Correct Answer John Watson, B.F. Skinner
,psychodynamic perspective - Correct Answer behavior is explained in terms of inherited instincts,
biological drive, and attempts to resolve conflicts
behavioral perspective - Correct Answer primarily concerned with observable behavior that can be
objectively recorded
cognitive perspective - Correct Answer human thought and the process of knowing and thinking
what academic psychologists do - Correct Answer engage in psychological inquiry
formulate questions to be researched
conduct forms of research
what applied psychologists do - Correct Answer clinicians/counselors/educational psychologists
consultants
human resources professionals
the three steps in processing research - Correct Answer 1. begin with an organized set of principles
2. develop a hypothesis
3. use the scientific method to design the study
theory - Correct Answer an organized set of concepts that explains a phenomenon or set of
phenomena
psychologists use theories to - Correct Answer formulate research questions
the process of determinism - Correct Answer the doctrine that all events-physical, behavioral, and
mental-are "determined" by specific causal factors that are potentially knowable
hypothesis - Correct Answer a testable explanation of the relationship between two (or more) events
or variables
, example of a hypothesis - Correct Answer watching violent programs leads to move aggressive
behaviors in young males (6-10 years)
goal of scientific method - Correct Answer maximum objectivity
How do we limit observer bias? - Correct Answer with standardization and operational definition
standardization - Correct Answer a set of uniform procedures for treating each participant
operational definition - Correct Answer define what it is to be observed in terms of the specific
operation on procedure used to determine its presence
independent variable - Correct Answer - a factor that is manipulated by the researcher
- the causal part of the relationship
dependent variable - Correct Answer a variable that the experimenter measures to asses the impact
of a variation in a independent variable
example of dependent variable (there are usually one or more) - Correct Answer aggressive behavior:
# of punches/kicks
example of independent variable (there are usually one or more levels) - Correct Answer type of
programming: violent v. non-violent
the methods of research - Correct Answer 1. experimental method
2. correlational method
3. archival/survey method
4. case study method
goal of experimental method - Correct Answer to establish cause/limit confounding variables
goal of correlational method - Correct Answer to establish mathematical relationship, find a basis for
prediction
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