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Oldroyd psychology 1010 final exam university of
Utah Questions With Complete Solutions
2024/2025
Oldroyd psychology 1010 final exam university of
Utah Questions With Complete Solutions
2024/2025
1. What is Psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER: The scientific study of behavior
and mental processes(Hard vs. Soft science)
-focuses on critical thinking (not just negative) and is scientific
1. Pseudopsychologies - CORRECT ANSWER: unreliable approaches that do
not use the scientific method
-astrology, palmistry, psychokinesis, follicology
1.Psychology's Four Goals - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. Description: tells" what
occurred"
2. Explanation: tells "why" a behavior or mental process occurred
3. Prediction: identifies conditions "under which a future behavior or mental
process is likely to occur"
4.Change: applies psychological knowledge to prevent unwanted or to bring about
desired goals
1.Types of Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER: -biopsychology/ neuroscience
-clinical and counseling psychology
-cognitive psychology
- developmental psychology
education and school psychology
experimental psychology
-forensic psychology
,-gender/ cultural psychology
-health psychology
-industrial/organizational psychology
-social psychology
1.what represents the largest group of Psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER:
Clinical psychology
1.origins of psychology - CORRECT ANSWER: wilhelm wundt
structuralism
functionalism
psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic perspective
1. Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER: "father of psychology" Leipzig,
Germany 1879
1.Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER: sought to identify the basic building
blocks, or structures, of the mind through introspection (Wundt and Titchener)
focused on sensations and perceptual experiences
1. Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER: studied how the mind functions to
adapt organisms to their environment (William James)
1. Psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic perspective - CORRECT ANSWER:
unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts (freud was the founder)
1.Recent schools of thought - CORRECT ANSWER: -behavioral perspective
1. Humanist perspective - CORRECT ANSWER: free will, self-actualization,
and a positive, growth-seeking human nature (Rogers and Maslow)
-inner-self and the importance of subjective feelilngs
1.Cognitive perspective - CORRECT ANSWER: thought, perception, and
information processing.
1. Neuroscience/ Biopsychology perspective - CORRECT ANSWER: genetics
and other biological processes in the brain and other parts of the nervous system
1. Brain Differences - CORRECT ANSWER: difference between men and
women is quite small.
1. Evolutionary - CORRECT ANSWER: natural selection, adaptation, and
evolution
1. Sociocultural - CORRECT ANSWER: social interaction and cultural
determinants "sociobiology"
1. Gestalt psychology - CORRECT ANSWER: emphasized perception; the
notion that the whole is more than the sum of the parts (Wertheimer)
, 1. Cognitive psychology - CORRECT ANSWER: focuses on mental function and
reasoning (Ebbinghaus)
1. Psychological research can be either... - CORRECT ANSWER: Basic:
conducted to advance scientific knowledge
Applied: designed to solve current practical problems
alcohol abuse is an area that combines basic and applied research
1. Basic Research - CORRECT ANSWER: seeks answers for theoretical
questions
ex how is hunger controlled by the brain
1. Applied research - CORRECT ANSWER: seeks answers for specific
application problems
ex organizational psychology studies leadership, job satisfaction, job training, and
development
1. Scientific Method - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. identify questions of interest and
review lit.
2. develop a testable hypothesis
3. select a research method and collect the data
4. analyze the data and accept of reject the hypothesis
5. publish, replicate, and seek scientific review
6. build a theory
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