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GATECH PSYCH 1101 TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Psychological Science - ANSWER study of mind brain and behaviorcritical thinking - ANSWER systematically evaluating info to reach
reasonable conclusions
culture - ANSWER beliefs, values, rules, and customs that exist in
people with common environments
nature v nurture debate - ANSWER whether psychological
characteristics are inherited or learned
mind v body problem - ANSWER whether the mind and body are
separate or not
introspection - ANSWER systematic exam where people report on their
own thoughts
structuralism - ANSWER the belief that conscious thought can be
broken down into underlying components
stream of consciousness - ANSWER each person's ever changing
thoughts
functionalism - ANSWER psychology that is concerned with adaptive
purposes
evolutionary theory - ANSWER views the history of a species in terms
of inherited charactaristics
adaptions - ANSWER characteristics that increase the chances of
reproduction
natural selection - ANSWER those who adapt have an advantage
, Gesalt Theory - ANSWER personal experience is more that a sum of
its parts
unconscious - ANSWER mental processes below the level of
awareness
psychoanalysis - ANSWER Freuds attempts to bring the unconscious
to the concious (penis)
behaviorism - ANSWER The group that focuses on the environmental
effects on behavior
cognitive psychology - ANSWER The study of how people think
cognitive neuroscience - ANSWER study of neural mechanisms
social psycology - ANSWER study of the effect of interations with other
people
scientific method - ANSWER observing and measuring to answer what,
when, why and how
theory - ANSWER model of interconnected ideas that explains and
predicts outcomes
hypothesis - ANSWER scientific prediction of an outcome
research - ANSWER scientific process that involves the collection of
data
data - ANSWER objective objservations and measurements
replication - ANSWER repeating an experiment to confirm the outcome
variable - ANSWER something that can be measured and vary
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