PSY 252, Mind Brain Behavior-CSU Exam with correct answers 2024
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PSY 252, Mind Brain Behavior-CS
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PSY 252, Mind Brain Behavior-CS
Psychology's intellectual parents correct answers philosophy and physiology
Wilhem Wundt () correct answers made psychology an independent discipline
credited with being the founder of psychology
1879 correct answers birth of psychology
Psychology according to Wundt correct answers th...
Psychology's intellectual parents correct answers philosophy and physiology
Wilhem Wundt (1832-1920) correct answers made psychology an independent
discipline
credited with being the founder of psychology
1879 correct answers birth of psychology
Psychology according to Wundt correct answers the scientific study of conscious
experience
Stanley Hall (1844-1924) correct answers contributed to psychology's rapid growth
established first research laboratory for psychology in America at John Hopkins
University
-Launched psychology's first psychological journal
-Driving force in the creation of the American Psychological Association (APA)
Two major psychological schools of thought correct answers -structuralism
-functionalism
Structuralism correct answers the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into
its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related
-depended on method of introspection
-Edward Titchner
Introspection correct answers the careful, systematic self-observation of one's own
conscious experience
person being studied becomes more objective and more aware
Functionalism correct answers based on the belief that psychology should investigate
the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure
-William James "Principles of Psychology"
-argument against structuralism was that consciousness is a consistent flow of thoughts
and structuralists were looking at static points in that flow
Functionalism gave birth to correct answers behaviorism and applied psychology
Sigmund Freud correct answers Psychoanalysis
-gave light to the unconsious
, Unconscious according to Freud correct answers the unconscious contains thoughts,
memories and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but
nonetheless exert great influence on behavior
psychoanalytic theory correct answers attempts to explain personality, motivation, and
mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior
Behaviorism correct answers -conflicted with psychoanalytical view
-John B Watson
-theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should only
study observable behavior
-abandon the study of consciousness altogether
-needed verification
Are criminals made or born? correct answers Made according to Watson
Behavioral approach correct answers -referred to as the stimulus-response psychology
-rise in animal research
Skinners behavoralists view correct answers organisms tend to repeat responses that
lead to positive outcomes and they tend not to repeat responses that lead to neutral or
negative outcomes
-all behavior is fully governed by external stimuli
The scientific approach correct answers We test to evaluate:
-intuition
-common sense
-placebo effect
-hindsight bias
-overconfidence
-necessity
-critical thinking
-operational definitions
Hindsight bias correct answers "the I knew it all along phenomenon"
Critical thinking correct answers assumptions and values
Operational definition correct answers define research variable
Ex: health, good
-what are the measures
Types of research strategies correct answers How psychologists ask and answer
questions
-Descriptive
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