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UAB PY101 Exam 1 Dobias Question and answers rated A+ UAB PY101 Exam 1 Dobias What is psychology? - correct answer the scientific study of behavior and mental processes Behavior= - correct answer observable actions From what discipline did psych grow out of - correct answer Philoso...

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UAB PY101 Exam 1 Dobias
What is psychology? - correct answer ✔the scientific study of behavior and
mental processes


Behavior= - correct answer ✔observable actions


From what discipline did psych grow out of - correct answer ✔Philosophy


Philosophic empiricism - correct answer ✔Aristotle and the blank slate
philosophy


T/F Plato believe in philosophical nativism - correct answer ✔True


Define philosophical nativism - correct answer ✔born with innate knowledge


Define Cartesian Dualism - correct answer ✔The mind and body are
independent from each other


How did Descartes describe the nervous system - correct answer ✔machine


John locke agreed with what philosopher on the blank slate theory - correct
answer ✔Aristotle


What was phenology? - correct answer ✔making informal observations
about mental ability based off brain size

,Different size lumps on skull= different mental abilities there


Who is responsible for inventing phenology - correct answer ✔Franz Baal


What did Pierre Flourens do? - correct answer ✔used animals to determine
the affect of brain damage on actions


Paul Broca - correct answer ✔Used case study of a man who had damage to
the front part of his brain and developed speech issues. After mans death
studied his brain and discovered Broca's area


What was the major breakthough in psychology caused by Paul Broca -
correct answer ✔Proved that mind and body were not separate and control
for mental abilities was localized within various parts of the brain


Herman von Helmholtz - correct answer ✔found conduction speed by
experimenting on frogs


How did the focus of psych change in the 1800s - correct answer ✔switch to
nature of consciousness


What are the 2 ways of studying the nature of consciousness - correct
answer ✔1. Structuralism
2. Functionalism


Structuralism - correct answer ✔understanding mind by seperating it into
basic parts

, Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer ✔german physiologist who founded
psychology as a formal science; opened first psychology research laboratory
in 1879


Edward Titchner - correct answer ✔Studied structuralism. Also encouraged
introspection


What are the 2 problems with Structuralism - correct answer ✔1. hard to
verify
2. what's the point


Functionalism - correct answer ✔how does consciousness allow us to
survive


What did functionalism eventually give way to - correct answer ✔behaviorism


According to the social brain hypothesis, each of us can deal effectively with
social interactions with roughly 150 people. This implies that - correct answer
✔we are capable of maintaining social networks of up to 150 people
throughout our lives.


An important principle to remember when studying psychology is that - correct
answer ✔the act of learning changes the physical structure of the brain.


A researcher presents his participant with a series of flashing lights at varying
intervals. After each presentation of a light, he asks the participant to fully
describe her internal experiences, a method known as - correct answer
✔introspection.

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