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psychological science correct answers the study of mind, brain, and behavior a fictional psychologist who studies the mind correct answers amiable skepticism correct answers openness and wariness, critical thinking difference between using critical thinking explanations and everyday expla...

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PSYC 1200 Exam 1 || with 100% Correct Answers.
psychological science correct answers the study of mind, brain, and behavior

a fictional psychologist who studies the mind correct answers

amiable skepticism correct answers openness and wariness, critical thinking

difference between using critical thinking explanations and everyday explanations for
psychological phenomena correct answers critical thinking relies on evidence and scientific
supporter conclusions

major biases in thinking correct answers ignoring evidence (confirmation bias), failing to
accurately judge source credibility, misunderstanding or not using statistics, seeing relationships
that do not exist, accepting after-the-fact explanations, taking mental shortcuts, and failing to see
our own inadequacies

A recent survey found that 80 percent of high school students believed that they were above
average on reading, writing, and math skills. Given that only 50 percent of any group can be
above average on any dimension, this is an example of correct answers self-serving bias

historically psychology was influenced by theoretical developments in correct answers
philosophy and physiology

according to the nature/nuture debate, the nature view states that individual psychological
characteristics are a result of correct answers biological influences

idea that the mind and body are separate but intertwined describes the viewpoint of correct
answers dualism

Jordan studies consciousness by training himself to objectively report on his own sensations,
which is similar to how the __________ school investigated psychology. correct answers
structuralist

according to the structuralists, the goal of psychology is correct answers understand conscious
experience by breaking it down into basic components

Paul researches how cooperation in humans increases our ability to survive and successfully
raise children. Paul uses a ____ approach in his research correct answers evolutionary

early psychologists learned that the reporting of mental experience changes the experience. this
was a problem for the methods of correct answers functionalism

René Descartes correct answers 17t century French philosopher, mind and body are separate yet
intertwined (dualism)

, Wilhelm Wundt correct answers father of psychology,
established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany

William James correct answers 1842-1910, functionalism, studied how humans use perception to
function in our environment, pragmatism, The Meaning of Truth

Mary Whiton Calkins correct answers American psychologist who conducted research on
memory, personality, and dreams; first woman president of the American Psychological
Association

Charles Darwin correct answers Darwin's theory of evolution

Sigmund Freud correct answers Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious
causes of behavior and personality formation, founded psychoanalysis

John B. Watson correct answers founder of behaviorism

Carl Rogers correct answers 1902-1987; Field: humanistic; Contributions: founded person-
centered therapy, theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom
and potential for personal growth, unconditional positive regard, fully functioning person

George A. Miller correct answers psychologist; found that short term memory has the capacity of
about 7 (plus or minus 2) items, established the Center for Cognitive Science at Harvard
University

Structuralism correct answers Identify the basic parts, or structures, of the conscious mind,
Wilhelm Wundt, Edward Titchener

Functionalism correct answers describe how the conscious mind aids adaptation to an
environment William James, Charles Darwin

psychoanalytic theory correct answers understand how unconscious thoughts cause
psychological disorders, Sigmund Freud

Gestalt movement correct answers " the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", a
psychological movement that makes us take a look at the whole picture instead of separate
instances, founded by German psychologist Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler

behaviorism correct answers describe behavior in response to environmental stimuli, John B.
Watson, B.F. Skinner

humanistic psychology correct answers investigate how people become happier and more
fulfilled, focus on the basic goodness of people, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers

cognitivism correct answers explore internal mental processes that influence behavior, George
Miller, Ulric Neisser

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