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Psychology Themes and Variations, 4th Canadian Edition TEST
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Psychology is the scientific study of... - ANSWER: behavior and the mind
The goals of Psychology are... - ANSWER: to describe, understand etiology/causation,
predict, influence, and apply knowledge
According to Helmstader (1970), the methods of acquiring knowledge are... -
ANSWER: tenacity, intuition, reference to authority, rationalism, empiricism, and
science
The four core values of science are... - ANSWER: accuracy, objectivity, skepticism,
and open-mindedness
Psychology was embedded in what in the 1800's? - ANSWER: Philosophy and
physiology
What is Mind-Body Dualism? - ANSWER: The idea from the mid 1800's that the mind
and body, while separate, casually interact.
What accident in VT in 1848 caused people to begin to believe that personality
originated in the brain? - ANSWER: Phineas Gage ended up with a pipe up his skull,
which he survived, but his personality was completely changed afterwards.
What is psychophysics? - ANSWER: The early (pre-psychology) study of how changes
in the physical world affect humans.
What is Darwin's "Theory of Evolution"? - ANSWER: Individuals within a species
survive when they have the best traits for surviving and reproducing.
Who is William Wundt? - ANSWER: A scientist from Germany who developed the
first Psychology lab (1879) and the first Psychology journal (1881).
What is structuralism? - ANSWER: A branch of early psychology based on the notion
that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and
investigate how these elements are related (understand fundamental components of
conscious experience).
What is introspection? - ANSWER: The careful, systematic self-observation of one's
own conscious experience.
Who are the two most well known structuralists? - ANSWER: Wundt and Titchener
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