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PSYCHOLOGY EXAM #1 QUESTIONS
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Key figures in the humanistic approach - answer-rogers, maslow

Cognitive approach - answer-emphasizing the mental processes involved in knowing
(how we direct our attention, perceive, remember, think, and solve problems)

Evolutionary approach - answer-emphasizes the inherited, adaptive aspects of behavior
and mental processes (behaviors that increase reproductive success)

Multicultural and cross-cultural approaches - answer-emphasizes social and cultural
influences on behavior; studies differences between cultural groups

Findings of spear (2007) regarding the prominence of approaches to psychology -
answer-although cognitive psychology has grown in importance, it has not come to
dominate psychology

Two major organizations of psychologists in the U.S. - answer-American psychological
association (apa)
American association for psychological science (aps)

Hindsight bias - answer-the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one
would have foreseen it

False consensus effect - answer-the tendency to overestimate the extent to which
others share our beliefs and behaviors

Overconfidence - answer-tendency to overestimate our ability to make correct
predictions

Theory - answer-a hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data

Hypothesis - answer-a testable prediction, often implied by a theory

5 steps of scientific method - answer-observation, question, hypothesis, experiment,
conclusion

Operational definitions - answer-specific explanations of abstract concepts that a
researcher plans to study

Population - answer-a large group of individuals

Sample - answer-a subset of the population

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