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PSYCHOLOGY Question and answers 100% correct PSYCHOLOGY: PY101 CH 1,2,3,4 Psychology? - correct answer Study of the mind and behavior to understand why people behave the way they do Charles Darwin ()? - correct answer discovery of evolution revolutionized our understanding of the roots...

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PSYCHOLOGY: PY101 CH 1,2,3,4
Psychology? - correct answer ✔Study of the mind and behavior to
understand why people behave the way they do


Charles Darwin (1809-1882)? - correct answer ✔discovery of evolution
revolutionized our understanding of the roots of all behaviors


Our Survival is promoted by? - correct answer ✔being a member of a group


How many human relationships can the human mind keep track of? - correct
answer ✔150


Aristotle? - correct answer ✔an ancient group teacher who was a keen
observer of animals and humans and was interested in sensory illusions


Aristotle noted hat if you stare at a waterfall for a few minutes and then look at
a stationary object, it would move. this is know as? - correct answer ✔Motion
aftereffect/ how sense deceive us


Plato? - correct answer ✔was ab ancient Greek philosopher who was
skeptical of our senses and stressed reliance on logic and reason (ppl.
hallucinate entire events)


Rene Descartes (1596-1650)? - correct answer ✔renaissance philosopher
who built a system of knowing about reality that does not rely on our fallible
senses. (i think,therefore I am) (nervous system is like a machine)

,Descartes introspective approach inspired which scientific movement? -
correct answer ✔Psychophysics


empiricist philosophers? - correct answer ✔a group of British
philosophers,including john Locke, who believed we are dependent on our
unreliable senses to learn about the world. (true knowledge comes within)


John Locke? - correct answer ✔believed that the mind of a newborn baby
was a "tabula rasa" (blank slate) that is molded by experience.


Charles Darwin (1809-1882)? - correct answer ✔discovered evolution by
natural selection who argued that all human behaviors must has beginnings in
earlier ancestors. and physical traits developed overtime


Margaret Floy Washburn? - correct answer ✔First female to be awarded a
PhD in psychology; 2nd president of the APA (1921). She described the
behavior of many animals relating to the human mind


Natural Selection? - correct answer ✔The process by which mutations that
improve survival and reproduction accumulate in subsequent
generations,changing a species overtime


Plat and Descartes believed that? - correct answer ✔sense offered an
unreliable understanding of the world and believed knowledge should be
based o logic and reason.


where did science of psychology begin? - correct answer ✔Germany in late
1800s

,Psychophysics? - correct answer ✔The study of how physical events such
as lights and sounds affect our senses.


Whilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) - correct answer ✔established the first
research laboratory in psychology and wrote the first psychology textbook.
consider himself the 1st psychologist


Wundt illusion? - correct answer ✔When a image with lines that are all the
same length are portrayed as different lengths. or straight lines looked curved.


Edward Titchener developed what idea? - correct answer ✔structuralism


Define Structuralism? - correct answer ✔the analysis of the human mind by
breaking it down into the simplest kinds of experience and then asking how
these simple experiences come together to produce more complex
experiences.


Structuralism was abandoned for what idea? - correct answer
✔functionalism


William James? - correct answer ✔emphasized the adaptive function of
behaviors and mental processes to help survival and reproduction


James states that the consciousness was a single continuous flow, termed
the? - correct answer ✔Stream of consciousness


Behaviorism? - correct answer ✔the perspective that psychologists should
stuff only observable behavior and not subjective mental disorders

, Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)? - correct answer ✔described classical
conditioning,such as how ringing a bell would eventually result in the dog
learning to salivate at just at the sound of the bell


Edward Thorndike? - correct answer ✔studied how dogs and cats learn to
escape from puzzle boxes


John B. Watson? - correct answer ✔insisted that psychology should be an
objective experimental branch of natural science concerned only with
observable behavior, he published behaviorist manifesto


B.F. Skinner(1904-1990)? - correct answer ✔Leader of behaviorism in that
era. he rejected the study of any mental events and felt that the brain fell
outside the field of psychology.


Many neuroscientist carefully measure _______________ and many
psychologist study functions of the ____________________ - correct answer
✔behavior...... brain function


Max Wetheimer and Wolfgang Kohler(1880-1967)? - correct answer
✔became fascinated by the ways our minds seems to "fill in" certain visual
scenes. influential in Gestalt psychology.


Gestalt Psychology? - correct answer ✔a group of German psychologists
who insisted that the entire perception we experience is more than just the
sum of parts.


congnitive psychology? - correct answer ✔the study of internal mental
processes, specifically how we acquire and process information and gain
knowledge

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