Psychology Exam Study Guide WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS 2024
PSYCOLOGY EXAM REVIEW
Psychology - answer-the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Applied Research - answer-designed to solve specific problems
Basic Research - answer-pure science, used to find new information
Fields of Psychology - answer-clinical, consumer, rehabilitation, health,
organizational (industrial)
Clinical Psychology - answer-most common psychological career; clinical
psychologists use their skills to promote health in groups and individuals
Consumer Psychology - answer-study why people buy certain products
over others
Rehabilitation Psychology - answer-help those who have been involved in
an accident or have been ill
Health Psychology - answer-find ways to prevent disease and promote
good health
Organizational (Industrial) Psychology - answer-try to apply psychology to
help business and organizations operate
Types of Psychologists - answer-cognitive, social, neuropsychologist,
behaviorist, humanist, psychoanalysis
,Psychology Exam Study Guide WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS 2024
Cognitive Psychologists - answer-focus on how people think - how they
take in, process, store, and retrieve information (Jean Piaget)
Social Psychologists - answer-study group dynamics and how behaviors
and attitudes influence others
Neuropsychologists - answer-explore how the brain works
Behaviorists - answer-only study observable behaviors, not mental
processes
Humanists - answer-focus on the stuff of conscious experience, a person's
freedom to choose, and the capacity for personal growth
Psychoanalysts - answer-practitioners using Freud's theory of personality
and psychoanalysis-a therapeutic technique that attempts to provide insight
into thoughts and actions by exposing and interpreting the underlying
unconscious motives and conflicts
Ivan Pavlov - answer-behaviorist, learning theorist famous for discovery of
classical conditioning
Jean Piaget - answer-development and cognitive psychologist known for
his studies of children's thought processes
William Wundt - answer-founder of modern psychology
E.B. Tichener - answer-founder of structuralism (theory that the structure of
conscious experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements
of thoughts and sensations)
, Psychology Exam Study Guide WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS 2024
William James - answer-first American psychologist and author of the first
psychology textbook
Sigmund Freud - answer-founder of psychoanalysis
Neuron - answer-a nerve cell, receives/carries information
All-or-None Response - answer-if a neuron fires, it will fire at same intensity
every time
Sequence of Transmission - answer-dendrite, cell body, axon, synapse
Dendrites - answer-receive messages from other cells
Synapses - answer-tiny, fluid-filled gap between the axon terminal of one
neuron and the dendrite of another neuron
Axon - answer-passes messages away from the cell body to other neurons,
muscles, or glands
Action Potential - answer-created when a neuron fires, neural impulse that
travels from the dendrites down the axon to the axon terminals
Myelin Sheath - answer-covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed
neural impulses
Neurotransmitters - answer-a chemical messenger that travels across the
synapse from one neuron to the next
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