PSY 100 TEST 1- UKY (ARCHER) QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS.

PSY 100 TEST 1- UKY (ARCHER) QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

From what 2 disciplines did psychology emerge? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Philosophy and phisiology | |




What is psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The scientific study of behavior and
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mental process |




Who established the 1st Psychological laboratory?
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What was the significance? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Wilhelm Wundt
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-He studied the content of consciousness and came up with the Technique of
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Introspection


Know the historical progression of psychology (i.e. structuralism, functionalism,
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behaviorism, etc). - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- | | | |




Compare and contrast the different psychological perspectives (i.e. behaviorism,
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psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, etc.). - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Biological-
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why are you the way you are (neuroscience and evolution)
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Behavioral- you cannot observe sensation, feeling, or a thought but you can
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observe and record people's behavior as they respond to and learn in different
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situations. |

,Psychodynamic- some things we don't know why we do them; things that happen
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in early childhood; relationships; underlying conflicts
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Cognitive- we have different thought process; interpret
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Humanistic- we are all driven towards self growth; be the best that we can be;
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positive viewpoint |




Sociocultural- have to take in account the social and cultural areas you grow up in
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What areas do the various psychologists study? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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physiological process | |




-sensation and perception | |




-states of consciousness
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-learning process |




-the memory system
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-thinking process, intelligence and language acquisition
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-emotion and motivation | |




-human developement from the fertilized egg through death
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-personality
-stress and its health consequences
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| -abnormal behavior and treatment | | | |




-understanding social behavior | |

, Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-middle aged professor trying to measure "atoms
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of the mind"- the fastest and simplest mental process (promoted structuralism)
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Tichener - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-used introspection, looking inward, to search
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for the minds structural elements
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(promoted structuralism) |




James - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Thought it would be better to consider the
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evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings. Encouraged explorations of the
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functions of emotion, memories, willpower, habits, and movement-to-movement
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streams of consciousness. (promoted functionalism)
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(helped define psychology as "the science of mental life")
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Watson - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Championed psychology as the scientific study
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of observable behavior (Watson and Skinner both rejected introspection)
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Skinner - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Leading behavioralist who rejected introspection
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and studied how consequences shape behavior
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Freud - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-His controversial ideas influenced humanities self -
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understanding


Introspection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the examination or observation of one's
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own mental and emotional processes. (looking inward at the mind)
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