PSYCHOLOGY 102 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS %
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psychology answer >>>> science of behavior and cognitive processes
Main branches of psychology answer >>>> Structuralism
Functionalism
Freudian psychology
Behaviorism
Humanistic psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Structuralism answer >>>> Edwards Bradford Kitchener Wilhelm Wundt
analyze the adult mind into components and find how they fit.
Functionalism answer >>>> William James
considering the functions of our thoughts and feelings how do they effect out
thoughts and actions
Freudian Psychology answer >>>> Sigmund Freud
Focused on unconscious and childhood experiences
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Behaviorism answer >>>> B.F Skinner and John Watson observable behavior
the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior and
not the mental process
Humanistic psychology answer >>>> Carl Rogers and Andrew Maslow
Promoted psych growth potential of healthy people environment can nurture or
limit growth and acceptance.
Cognitive psychology answer >>>> focus on mental processes and how our mind
processes and retains info
First Psychology lab answer >>>> Wilhelm Wundt
measured the time lag between peoples hearing a ball hit a platform and their
pressing a key
psychology subfields answer >>>> Basic research - increase the scientific
knowledge base
Applied research - aims to solve practical problems
Counseling psych - assists people with problems living and achieving well being
Clinical psychology - studies asses and treats people with disorders
Positive psychology - promote strengths.
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Community psychology - looks at how people interact in social environments and
how those environments effect individuals and groups
biases that illustrate inaccuracy of intuition answer >>>> Hindsight bias
judgmental overconfidence
tendency to perceive patterns in random events
critical thinking answer >>>> examines assumptions, discerns hidden values etc.
scientific method answer >>>> observation
questioning
hypothesis
prediction
experiment
result
3 methods for treating theories answer >>>> descriptive methods - case studies
one person studied to show universal principles also through observations Jane
Goodall
correlational methods - looking how two factors are related change together
correlation coefficient scatterplots
experimental methods - manipulates a factor to determine its effect