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PSY 201: Exam 1(Chapters 1-4) questions with correctanswers
Psychology Correct Answer-The science of behavior and mental
processes; "study of the mind"
Clinical & Counseling Psychology Correct Answer-Help individuals
experiencing a continuum of psychological difficulty
Forensic Psychology Correct Answer-Provide psychological enterprise
to the legal and judicial system
Industrial/Organization Psychology Correct Answer-Deals with
psychological issues in the work place
Sports Psychology Correct Answer-Focus on improving athletic
performance
School Psychology Correct Answer-Works with teachers parents and
children to remedy students' behavioral, emotional, and learning
difficulties
Developmental Psychology Correct Answer-Conduct research on
individuals' emotional, physiological, and cognitive processes, and how
these change with age
,Cognitive Psychology Correct Answer-Emphasis on internal mental
processes -- thinking, remembering, perceiving, learning, problem-
solving
Social Psychology Correct Answer-Examine how an individual's
thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by actual or perceived
presence of others/society
Experimental/ Biological Psychology Correct Answer-Examine basic
psychological processes and the physiological bases of behavior in
humans and animals
Psychology vs. Psychiatry Correct Answer-Psychology: Broad field with
specialization, holds a PhD, grad training with research emphasis, some
licensed to conduct psychological treatment but mostly do research
Psychiatry: Medical specialty, holds MD, medical training, licensed to
prescribe medication
Pseudo-science Correct Answer-Erroneous assertion or practices set
forth as being scientific psychology -- 6th sense, ghost whisper,
astrology
Biological Perspective Correct Answer-- the brain, nervous system,
endocrine system, and genes
- neuroscience & evolutionary psychology
- Rene Decrates: first to say the body and mind are separated
, Behavioral Perspective Correct Answer-- We respond to surroundings
according to principles of behavioral learning
- the stimuli in our environment and the previous consequences of our
behaviors determine our behavior
- Watson & Skinner
Cognitive Perspective Correct Answer-- we are info processing systems
- a person's unique pattern of perceptions, interpretations, expectations,
beliefs, and memories
- Wundt & James
Whole-person Perspective Correct Answer--Psychodynamic processes in
our unconscious minds
- Humanistic: our innate needs to grow and to fulfill our best possible
potential
- Rogers & Maslow
Developmental Perspective Correct Answer-- the interaction of heredity
and environment, which unfolds in predictable patterns throughout the
lifespan
- Ainsworth & Piaget
Socioculture Perspective Correct Answer-- power of the situation: social
and cultural influences can overpower the influence of all other
determining factors
- cross cultural psychology
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