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What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes? - answer-Psychology What is behavior? - answer-Outward or overt actions and reactions What are the internal, covert activities of our minds known as? - answer-Mental processes Who created the Id, Ego, and the Superego - answer-F...

Wilhelm Wundt - answer-Structuralist; father of modern psychology William James - answer-Functionalist; father of American psyhcology *examined goals/purposes of behaviors Sir Francis Galton - answer-Believed that genetics accounted for our personality Sigmund Freud - answer-Developed the...

What is the study of psychology? - answer-a. The scientific study of the mind, brain, and behavior b. Psychologist ask SCIENTIFIC questions, and determine validity of theories What are the multiple levels of analysis in Psychology? - answer-Biological, Social, Cognitive, Cultural, Individual dif...

Physiological - answer-having to do with an organism's physical appearance Cognitive - answer-having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding Psychology - answer-the scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research Hypothesis - answer-an assumption or pre...

Wilhelm Wundt - answer-The first man of psychology. Started it in 1879 when conducted experiment about hearing and being aware of it. Structuralism - answer-Early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind. Functionalism - answer-school of...

Behaviorism - answer-the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2). Humanistic Psychology - answer-emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and...

Cognitive Psychology - answer-The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. Definition of the mind's role - answer-The mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning. Definitio...

The early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used introspection to review the structure of the human mind. - answer-Structuralism Why did introspection fail as a method for understanding how the mind works? - answer-It required smart, verbal people and results varied from person t...

Altered State of Consciousness - answer-a type of consciousness other than normal waking consciousness subjective - answer-based on personal experience or feeling, not from external evidence normal waking consciousness - answer-The states of consciousness associated with being awake and aware ...

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Accuracy - answer-how close a measurement is to the true value of the quantity being measure Action potential - answer-an electrical impulse that travels down the axon of a neuron Acute stress - answer-a form of stress characterised by intense psychological and physiological symptoms that are ...

Attitude - answer-an EVALUATION a person makes about an object, person, group, event or issue Tri-component model of attitudes - answer-ABC's of attitudes; AFFECTIVE, BEHAVIOURAL, COGNITIVE. All attitudes have the three related components Affective component of an attitude - answer-refers to ...

beneficence - answer-ethical value promoting research that maximises possible benefits of the research, while minimising risks of harm or discomfort to the participants Biased sample - answer-a research sample in which everyone in the target population does not have an equal chance of being selec...

Development - answer-Changes that occur over time Lifespan Development - answer-Changes that occur from birth through to and including old age Physical Development - answer-Changes in the body and its various systems, such as the brain, muscles etc Social Development - answer-Changes in rel...

Distress - answer-Negative psychological response to a percieved stressor. Acculturative stress - answer-When people are trying to adapt to a new culture when living in it for a period of time. Catastrophe - answer-Unpredictable event that causes widespread damage or suffering. Life event -...

Operationalising - answer-Turning the iv and dv into operations Operationalised Hypothesis - answer-how variables are studied, manipulated and measured Extraneous Variable - answer-can cause a change in the DV Types of Extraneous Variables - answer-Experimenter, Situational, and Participant...

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Experiment - answer-A research method used to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions in order to measure the effects of an IV(s) on a DV(s). Descriptive statistics - answer-Are used to summarise, organize and describe important features of data, so they can be easily interpreted and commun...

Consciouness - answer-our awareness of objects and events in the external world, and of our sensations, mental experiences and own existence at any given moment Consciousness is - answer-. an experience . personal (subjective) . selective (can choose to attend to certain things and ignore...

Attitude - answer-An evaluation or judgement (positive, negative or neutral) about an attitude object (person, place, thing, events). This is learnt, stable and relatively long lasting Tri-component model - answer-Theory that an attitude consists of cognitive, affective and behavioural components...

4P factor model - answer-a description and explanation of the development and progression of mental health disorders with reference to four types of influences — predisposing risk factor, precipitating risk factor, perpetuating risk factor, protective risk factor Agonist - answer-drugs and othe...

Central Nervous System - answer-Consists of the brain and spinal cord. The Brain - answer-Network of cells that plays vital role in processing neural information, and directing actions within the body. Has integrating and overlapping functions. Spinal Cord - answer-Links the brain and the rest...

Axon - answer-A single, tube-like, extension that carries neural information away from the neuron, towards the Axon terminals Axon terminals - answer-The end part of an axon collateral where terminal buttons that store and secrete neurotransmitter are located Central nervous system - answer-Th...

REM - answer-Is a period of sleep where your eyes move rapidly, for short bursts of time. NREM 1 - answer-It is a very light sleep from which we can be easily awakened. NREM 2 - answer-At this stage it is still fairly easy to be woken up at this stage, despite being a deeper stage of sleep the...

Artificial Environment - answer-An environment that is fake/produced/man-made Beta Waves - answer-Fastest of the brain waves; associated with alertness and intensive mental activity during normal waking consciousness. Comprises high-frequency (fast) and low amplitude (small) brain waves. Delta...

scientific method - answer-set of assumptions, rules and procedures experiment - answer-tests cause-effect relationship variable - answer-factor that can change in kind or amount over time independent variable - answer-systematically manipulated variable dependent variable - answer-shows...

human behavior? a. Researchers should be wary of trusting measures of participants' implicit attitudes and beliefs. b. Researchers should be cautious about utilizing survey methods to capture participants' feelings about their behavior, because the real reasons for their behavior are often uncon...

olfactory - answer-of or relating to smell retroactive interference - answer-when a person has difficulty recalling old information because of newly learned information proactive interference - answer-difficulty in learning new information because of existing information agoraphobia - answe...

Intelligence Test - answer-Diagnostic tool designed to measure overall thinking ability Abstract Thinking - answer-Capacity to understand hypothetical concepts g (general intelligence) - answer-Hypothetical factor tht accounts for overall differences in intellect among people s (specific ab...

Intelligence - answer-A mental ability consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. General Intelligence Factor (g) - answer-The construct that the different abilities and skills measured on intelligence tests have in common. -...

1. David Wechsler defines intelligence as: A) the psychological potential to solve problems B) what intelligence tests measure C) being able to behave in a consistent way D) the global capacity to act purposefully, think rationally and deal effectively with the environment - answer-1. D) the glo...

Which of the following is the most frequently used method of data collection in I/O psychology? A. case studies B. experience sampling methodology C. unobtrusive naturalistic observation D. surveys - answer-D After designing a study, the next step in the research process involves: A. t...

Which of the following processes typically takes place shortly after people complete their participation in a research study? - answer-debriefing Who was the functionalist who authored a textbook for the emerging discipline of psychology? - answer-William James Compared with the structuralists...