Psych 100 Exam 1 Bundle

Psychology - Answer The Scientific study of thought and behavior ABC'S of Psychology - Answer A-Affect (feelings) B-Behavior C-Cognition(mental processes such as thoughts) What do Psychologists study? - Answer The intersection of two relationships: 1. Brain function and Behavior 2. Enviro...

The Modern Viewpoints in Psychology - Answer - Biological - Learning/Behaviorism - Cognitive - Sociocultural - Psychodynamic - Humanistic Biological Psychology - Answer How the body influences behaviors, thoughts, and feelings Learning/Behaviorist Psychology - Answer How environment and e...

Socrates & Plato thought? - Answer The mind and body are separate, the mind exists after death, we are born with instincts Aristotle thought - Answer Denied the existence of innate ideas, knowledge grows from experience, mind and body are not separable Order of philosophers? - Answer Socrates-...

What are the two modes of thinking & their descriptions? - Answer 1. Intuitive - instant, unconscious, automatic, and emotional thinking. 2. Analytical - slow, rational, conscious, reflective, reasoning, and deliberate thinking. Heuristic - Answer A simple thinking strategy that often allows us...

Reaching conclusions in psychological science requires - Answer the ability to test a theory ____ believed that the mind and body are made of different things, with the mind being made of immaterial or spiritual substance - Answer Descartes Today, most psychologists would agree with which stat...

Structuralism is to __________ as functionalism is to __________. - Answer Elements of consciousness; purpose of consciousness Is Psychology most closely related to: - Answer Biology Through their research on human responses to physical stimuli, both Helmholtz and Fechner contributed to the be...

Aristotle - Answer theorized psychological concepts Darwin - Answer theorized natural selection Wundt - Answer -created first psychological laboratory -noise and telegraph key experiment -Structuralism (introspection) Titchener - Answer -Wundt's student -Structuralism (introspection) ...

Psychology - Answer the scientific study of behavior and mental processes Major goals for studying psychology - Answer describe and measure behavior explain and understand behavior predict and control behavior Behavior and mental proccesses - Answer affect, behavior, and congnition (only b...

Behaviorism - Answer All behavior is learned through a focus on observable behavior case study - Answer Detailed investigations of one subject. Highly detailed, but specific to one case control group - Answer Group that is not exposed to the Independent variable Correlation - Answer A measu...

Learning - Answer Relatively permenant change in an organism behavior due to experience. 3 Types of Learning - Answer 1. Classical (Pavlovian) Conditioning 2. Operant (Instrumental) Conditioning 3. Observational (Social) Leaning Ivan Pavlov - Answer 1.First to describe classical conditioning...

John Locke - Answer Tabula Rasa Structuralism - Answer Early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind. Functionalism - Answer Early school of thought promoted by James and influenced by Darwin; explored how mental and behav...