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PSYCH 1101 UNCC TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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CHAPTER 1 - ANSWERPsychology - ANSWER The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Developmental psychology - ANSWER The study of how people grow and
change physically, cognitively, emotionally and socially, from the prenatal
period through death. Includes child, adolescent and life-span psychology.
Physiological psychology - ANSWER Investigates the biological basis of
behaviour. Includes neuroscience, biological psychology and behaviour
genetics.
Experimental psychology - ANSWER Studies the basic processes underlying
psychological events such as sensation and perception, memory, intelligence,
learning and motivation.
Personality psychology - ANSWER Examines individual differences on
dimensions such as sociability, emotional stability, conscientiousness, and self-
esteem.
Clinical and counseling psychology - ANSWER Applies the principles of
psychology to mental health and adjustment. Clinical psychology focuses on the
diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, while counseling psychology is
,more concerned with "normal" adjustment issues such as making difficult
choices or coping with a troubled relationship.
Social psychology - ANSWER Explores how society influences thoughts,
feelings and behavior.
Industrial and organizational I/O psychology - ANSWER Applies the
principles of psychology to the workplace.
Scientific method - ANSWER An approach to knowledge that relies on
collecting data, generating a theory to explain the data, producing testable
hypotheses based on the theory, and testing those hypotheses empirically.
Theory- ANSWER Systematic explanation of a phenomenon; it organizes
known facts, allows us to predict new facts and permits us to exercise a degree
of control over the phenomenon.
Hypotheses- ANSWER Specific, testable predictions derived from a theory.
The benefits of studying psychology- ANSWER Page 9.
Dualism - ANSWER View that thoughts and feelings (the mind) are distinct
from the world of real objects and our bodies.
-Year in which psychology was born.
-By whom. - ANSWER -1879.
-Wilhelm Wundt.
, Structuralism (Edward Titchener) - ANSWER School of psychology that
emphasizes the basic units of experience and the combinations in which they
occur.
functionalist theory William James -.functionalist theory ANSWER Theory of
mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses its
perceptual abilities to function in its environment.
psychodynamic theories Sigmund Freud -.psychodynamic theories ANSWER
Personality theories contending that behavior results from psychological factors
that interact within the individual, often outside conscious awareness.
Behaviorism (John Watson) - ANSWER School of psychology that studies
only observable and measurable behavior. Loosened its grip on the field in the
1960s.
Gestalt psychology - ANSWER School of psychology that studies how people
perceive and experience objects as whole patterns.
Humanistic Psychology - ANS School of psychology that emphasizes
nonverbal experience and altered states of consciousness as a means of realizing
one's full human potential.
Cognitive Psychology - ANS School of psychology devoted to the study of
mental processes in the broadest sense.
Evolutionary psychology - ANSWER A perspective on, and branch of,
psychology interested in the evolution of behaviours and mental processes, the
adaptive function that those served, and the function that they serve now.
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