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  • November 6, 2024
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PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1 Q&A
What is psychology? - Answer-the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

What is the scientific method? - Answer-Refers to a set of assumptions, attitudes, and
procedures that guide researchers in creating to investigate, in generating evidence,
and in drawing conclusions

What are the four steps of the scientific method? - Answer-1. formulate a specific
question that can be tested
2. design a study to collect relevant data
3. analyze the data to arrive at conclusion
4. report the results

Who's is the founder of psychology? - Answer-Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Wundt - Answer-Wundt defined psychology as the study of consciousness and
emphasized the experimental methods to study and measure it?

He used scientific method to study fundamental psychological processes, such as
mental reaction times in response to visual or auditory stimuli

What are the goals of psychology? - Answer-describe, predict, explain, control

Describe? (Goal of psychology) - Answer-Trying to objectively describe the experience,
a psychologist studies the sequence of emotional responses that occur during the
experience

Predict? (Goal of psychology) - Answer-To predict the kinds of events that are most
likely to evoke such response ( how we think and behave)

Explain? (Goal of psychology) - Answer-Seeking to explain why some people are more
vulnerable to the effects of the experience, and the different ways in which people
respond.

Control? (Goals of psychology) - Answer-Psychology strives to change, influence, or
control behavior to make constructive and lasting changes in people's live

The behavioral Perspective - Answer-Watson and skinners contention that psychology
should be focus a on behaviors and the fundamental laws of learning is evident today in
the behavioral perspective

Neurons 3 basic components - Answer-The cell body, dendrites, axon

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