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Psych 105 Exam 1 PSU# of people with a BA in psych - correct answer ✔✔3.4 million
# of people with a Ph D or Psy D in psych - correct answer ✔✔207,000
# of divisions in the APA - correct answer ✔✔56
3 elements that define science - correct answer ✔✔systematic empiricism, production of public
knowledge, examination of solvable problems
systematic empiricism - correct answer ✔✔structured observation which is theory driven and used to
test hypotheses
production of public knowledge - correct answer ✔✔scientific findings are submitted to the scientific
community for scrutiny, they are peer reviewed, and other scientists replicate and expand on them
early psychology-related practice - correct answer ✔✔took place in America in the 1800s and early
1900s without licensing or certification; anyone could offer "psychological" services
definition of profession - correct answer ✔✔an occupation requiring training and specialized study
characteristics of a profession - correct answer ✔✔specialized education, exchange of information,
accepted standards of practice, government certification and/or licensing laws
charlatan - correct answer ✔✔a person who makes elaborate and fraudulent claims to skill or
knowledge
pseudoscience - correct answer ✔✔a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being
based on scientific method
, psychology's occult doubles - correct answer ✔✔phrenology, physiognomy, mesmerism, spiritualism,
mental healing
Franz Joseph Gall (German physician and anatomist) - correct answer ✔✔created phrenology, but never
approved of the term (called it organology)
phrenology - correct answer ✔✔pseudoscience which argues that different parts of the brain are
responsible for emotional, intellectual, and behavioral functions
phrenology technique - correct answer ✔✔measuring bumps and indentations on the skull to assess
talents or defects
Johann Spurzheim - correct answer ✔✔further popularized phrenology and established that there "are"
21 emotional and 14 intellectual faculties (35 total)
Brothers Orson & Lorenzo Fowler - correct answer ✔✔opened phrenology clinics in NY, Boston, and
Philly in the late 1830s; franchised their business, trained phrenologists and provided phrenology
supplies
Efforts to increase phrenology's respectability - correct answer ✔✔published a magazine filled with
articles and testimonials of phrenology's "scientific legitimacy"
70 - correct answer ✔✔years phrenology remained popular
Lake Wobegon Effect - correct answer ✔✔"everyone is above average"; phrenologists told clients what
they wanted to hear
physiognomy - correct answer ✔✔a system of judging a person's character from facial features
Johann Lavater - correct answer ✔✔Swiss theologian who promoted physiognomy during the late 1700s
into the early 1800s; created Essays on Physiognomy (which contains 800 illustrations)
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