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MindTap Psychology Chapter 1Quiz/PPT with questions and
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Psychology - answer the systematic study of behavior and experience
Free Will - answer the belief that behavior is caused by a person's
independent decisions
Determinism - answer the idea that everything that happens has a cause,
or determinant, that someone could observe or measure
Mind-brain problem - answer philosophical question of how experience
relates to the brain (has 2 views)
Dualism - answer view that the mind is separate from the brain but
somehow controls the brain and therefore the rest of the body
Monism - answer view that conscious experience is inseparable from the
physical brain
Nature-Nurture Issue - answer question of how differences in behavior
relate to differences in heredity and environment
Wilhelm Wundt - answer set up the 1st laboratory intended exclusively
for psychological research in 1879
What elements did Wundt maintain? - answer the elements of experience
were sensations and feelings
, How (in his experiment) did Wundt discover that these elements could be
maintained by oneself? - answer he asked his subjects to introspect
What concept did Edward Titchener discover - answer Structuralism
Structuralism - answer an attempt to describe the structures that
compose the mind (ex from a lemon; sensation of shape, color, texture)
What concept did Willian James discover - answer Functionalism
Functionalism - answer what the mind does rather than what it is (ex:
how people produced useful behaviors)
Psychophysical function - answer the mathematical description of the
relationship between the physical stimulus and its perceived properties
Comparative psychologist - answer specialist who compares different
animal species
What was psychology being described as in the mid 1900s - answer the
study of behavior rather than "the systematic study of behavior and
experience."
Who is the founder of behaviorism - answer John B. Watson
Behaviorism - answer a field of psychology that concentrates on
observable, measurable behaviors and not on mental processes
Who's methods were psychiatrists following in there mid 1900s - answer
Sigmund Freud
Basic research - answer study that seeks theoretical knowledge for its
own sake
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