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Psychology CP: Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Psychology - the scientific study of behavior and mental process Cognitive Activities - Mental processes like dreams, thoughts Psychiatrist - is a medical doctor, specializes in treating disorders, and can prescribe medicine to patients...

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Psychology CP: Final Exam Questions
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Psychology - ✔✔the scientific study of behavior and mental process


Cognitive Activities - ✔✔Mental processes like dreams, thoughts


Psychiatrist - ✔✔is a medical doctor, specializes in treating disorders, and can prescribe

medicine to patients


Psychologist - ✔✔is not a doctor and cannot prescribe medications


Clinical - ✔✔relating to the observation and treatment of actual patients rather than

theoretical or laboratory studies


Educational Psychologist - ✔✔like school psychologist, concerned with helping

students learn


Structuralism - ✔✔a type of experiment psychology that focused on the basic elements

of consciousness


Functionalism - ✔✔mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment.

William James (when you learn to drive)



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,Behaviorism - ✔✔a scientific study of observable behavior. John B Watson (Little Albert

Experiment)


Gestalt Psychology - ✔✔the idea that perceptions are more than the sums of their parts.

Instead, they are wholes that give shape or meaning, to the parts (what most

psychologists classify themselves as today). Christian Von Ehrenfels


Survey Method - ✔✔gather information by asking people directly; people are asked to

respond to a series of questions about a particular subject


Case-Study Method - ✔✔researchers conduct in-depth investigations of individuals or a

small group


Ethics - ✔✔standards for proper and responsible behavior


Confidentiality - ✔✔records of research participants are private. People are more likely

to disclose true information and feelings when they know that what they say will

remain confidential


Laboratory-Observation Method - ✔✔participants are in a laboratory setting


Describe the five main goals of psychology - ✔✔Observe and describe (mental disorder

to better understand), explain (the behavior to understand someone's behavior), predict

(ways to control the behavior), control (help accomplish goals).




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, Identify the two major research methods used in psychological fields - ✔✔Surveys

(collecting data through questions) and Experimentation (studying behavior while in a

controlled setting).


Describe the characteristics of clinical psychologists - ✔✔They can work in a private

practice or in a hospital and they help people overcome problems in their lives like drug

abuse


Describe the differences between structuralism and functionalism. - ✔✔Structuralism is

based on the consciousness and the remembrance of the past while functionalism is

based on what you learned from your environment


Describe the benefits of a double-blind study - ✔✔No one will know who is taking the

placebo or drug.


Explain why confidentiality is important in psychology and psychology studies -

✔✔People are more likely to be more truthful and share their feelings.


Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the cross-sectional method. - ✔✔-

Advantages: Less time consuming than the longitudinal method for studying changes

over time.


-Disadvantages: Difference between the members of the sample cannot necessarily be

attributed to age or development.




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