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OpenStax Psychology 2e – Full Exam questions with || || || || || || || ||
accurate detailed solutions || ||
American Psychological Association - ✔✔professional organization representing
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psychologists in the United States || || || ||
behaviorism - ✔✔focus on observing and controlling behavior
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biopsychology - ✔✔study of how biology influences behavior
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biopsychosocial model - ✔✔perspective that asserts that biology, psychology, and social
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factors interact to determine an individual's health
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clinical psychology - ✔✔area of psychology that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of
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psychological disorders and other problematic patterns of behavior
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cognitive psychology - ✔✔study of cognitions, or thoughts, and their relationship to
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experiences and actions || ||
counseling psychology - ✔✔area of psychology that focuses on improving emotional, social,
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vocational, and other aspects of the lives of psychologically healthy individuals
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developmental psychology - ✔✔scientific study of development across a lifespan
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dissertation - ✔✔long research paper about research that was conducted as a part of the
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candidate's doctoral training
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empirical method - ✔✔method for acquiring knowledge based on observation, including
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experimentation, rather than a method based only on forms of logical argument or previous || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
authorities
forensic psychology - ✔✔area of psychology that applies the science and practice of
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psychology to issues within and related to the justice system
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functionalism - ✔✔focused on how mental activities helped an organism adapt to its
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environment
humanism - ✔✔perspective within psychology that emphasizes the potential for good that
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is innate to all humans
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introspection - ✔✔process by which someone examines their own conscious experience in
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an attempt to break it into its component parts
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ology - ✔✔suffix that denotes "scientific study of"
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PhD - ✔✔(doctor of philosophy) doctoral degree conferred in many disciplinary
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perspectives housed in a traditional college of liberal arts and sciences
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PsyD - ✔✔(doctor of psychology) doctoral degree that places less emphasis on research-
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oriented skills and focuses more on application of psychological principles in the clinical
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context
personality psychology - ✔✔study of patterns of thoughts and behaviors that make each
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individual unique ||
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personality trait - ✔✔consistent pattern of thought and behavior
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postdoctoral training program - ✔✔allows young scientists to further develop their research
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programs and broaden their research skills under the supervision of other professionals in
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the field
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psyche - ✔✔Greek word for soul
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psychoanalytic theory - ✔✔focus on the role of the unconscious in affecting conscious
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behavior
psychology - ✔✔scientific study of the mind and behavior
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sport and exercise psychology - ✔✔area of psychology that focuses on the interactions
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between mental and emotional factors and physical performance in sports, exercise, and
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other activities
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structuralism - ✔✔understanding the conscious experience through introspection
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Wilhelm Wundt - ✔✔established the first psychology laboratory at the University of
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Leipzig, Germany ||
Plato - ✔✔Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
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Descartes - ✔✔French philosopher, nativist, and dualist
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Dualism - ✔✔the presumption that mind and body are two distinct entities that interact
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William James - ✔✔founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to
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function in our environment || || ||
Erik Erikson - ✔✔famous for his 8-stage model of psychosocial development; neo-Freudian
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John B. Watson - ✔✔developed behaviorism ( the study of observable behavior)
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Ivan Pavlov - ✔✔discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of
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a bell
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Albert Bandura - ✔✔Social learning theory; Bobo doll experiment
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Abraham Maslow - ✔✔created hierarchy of needs || || || || || ||
Lawrence Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of Moral Development || || || || || ||
Naomi Weisstein - ✔✔Credited with starting the feminist revolution in psychology
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Anna Freud - ✔✔Continued her father's work in psychoanalysis with an emphasis on
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children.
Charles Darwin - ✔✔English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by
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natural selection (1809-1882) || ||
Democritus - ✔✔Greek philosopher that said all matter is made of tiny particles called
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"atomos" or atoms || ||
OpenStax Psychology 2e – Full Exam questions with || || || || || || || ||
accurate detailed solutions || ||
American Psychological Association - ✔✔professional organization representing
|| || || || || || ||
psychologists in the United States || || || ||
behaviorism - ✔✔focus on observing and controlling behavior
|| || || || || || ||
biopsychology - ✔✔study of how biology influences behavior
|| || || || || || ||
biopsychosocial model - ✔✔perspective that asserts that biology, psychology, and social
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
factors interact to determine an individual's health
|| || || || || ||
clinical psychology - ✔✔area of psychology that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
psychological disorders and other problematic patterns of behavior
|| || || || || || ||
cognitive psychology - ✔✔study of cognitions, or thoughts, and their relationship to
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
experiences and actions || ||
counseling psychology - ✔✔area of psychology that focuses on improving emotional, social,
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
vocational, and other aspects of the lives of psychologically healthy individuals
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
developmental psychology - ✔✔scientific study of development across a lifespan
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dissertation - ✔✔long research paper about research that was conducted as a part of the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
candidate's doctoral training
|| ||
,2
empirical method - ✔✔method for acquiring knowledge based on observation, including
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
experimentation, rather than a method based only on forms of logical argument or previous || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
authorities
forensic psychology - ✔✔area of psychology that applies the science and practice of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
psychology to issues within and related to the justice system
|| || || || || || || || ||
functionalism - ✔✔focused on how mental activities helped an organism adapt to its
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
environment
humanism - ✔✔perspective within psychology that emphasizes the potential for good that
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
is innate to all humans
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introspection - ✔✔process by which someone examines their own conscious experience in
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
an attempt to break it into its component parts
|| || || || || || || ||
ology - ✔✔suffix that denotes "scientific study of"
|| || || || || || ||
PhD - ✔✔(doctor of philosophy) doctoral degree conferred in many disciplinary
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
perspectives housed in a traditional college of liberal arts and sciences
|| || || || || || || || || ||
PsyD - ✔✔(doctor of psychology) doctoral degree that places less emphasis on research-
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
oriented skills and focuses more on application of psychological principles in the clinical
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
context
personality psychology - ✔✔study of patterns of thoughts and behaviors that make each
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
individual unique ||
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personality trait - ✔✔consistent pattern of thought and behavior
|| || || || || || || ||
postdoctoral training program - ✔✔allows young scientists to further develop their research
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
programs and broaden their research skills under the supervision of other professionals in
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the field
||
psyche - ✔✔Greek word for soul
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psychoanalytic theory - ✔✔focus on the role of the unconscious in affecting conscious
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
behavior
psychology - ✔✔scientific study of the mind and behavior
|| || || || || || || ||
sport and exercise psychology - ✔✔area of psychology that focuses on the interactions
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
between mental and emotional factors and physical performance in sports, exercise, and
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
other activities
||
structuralism - ✔✔understanding the conscious experience through introspection
|| || || || || || ||
Wilhelm Wundt - ✔✔established the first psychology laboratory at the University of
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Leipzig, Germany ||
Plato - ✔✔Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens.
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Descartes - ✔✔French philosopher, nativist, and dualist
|| || || || || ||
Dualism - ✔✔the presumption that mind and body are two distinct entities that interact
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
, 2
William James - ✔✔founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
function in our environment || || ||
Erik Erikson - ✔✔famous for his 8-stage model of psychosocial development; neo-Freudian
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
John B. Watson - ✔✔developed behaviorism ( the study of observable behavior)
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Ivan Pavlov - ✔✔discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at the ringing of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
a bell
||
Albert Bandura - ✔✔Social learning theory; Bobo doll experiment
|| || || || || || || ||
Abraham Maslow - ✔✔created hierarchy of needs || || || || || ||
Lawrence Kohlberg - ✔✔Theory of Moral Development || || || || || ||
Naomi Weisstein - ✔✔Credited with starting the feminist revolution in psychology
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Anna Freud - ✔✔Continued her father's work in psychoanalysis with an emphasis on
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
children.
Charles Darwin - ✔✔English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
natural selection (1809-1882) || ||
Democritus - ✔✔Greek philosopher that said all matter is made of tiny particles called
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
"atomos" or atoms || ||
