PSY 120 Yates Final question n answers

PSY 120 Yates FinalStructuralism Psychology - correct answer Created by Wilhelm Wundt and believes that human experience can be broken down into basic conscious mental elements Functionalism Psychology - correct answer The study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment i.e. enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. William James Behaviorism Psychology - correct answer Based on the premise that it is not possible to objectively study the mind, and therefore that psychologists should limit their attention to the study of behavior itself John B. Watson, B.F. Skinner Cognitive Psychology - correct answer the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating Psychoanalytic Psychology - correct answer a branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders, emphasizes the role of unconscious conflicts in determining behavior and personality. Sigmund Freud independent variable - correct answer variable that is manipulated dependent variable - correct answer The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable. What is a theory? - correct answer A theory is a statement that has not been