PSY 205 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
Early definition of Psychology - Answers - "study of the mind" in the 18th century
Current definition of Psychology - Answers - scientific study of human and animal
behavior and mental processes
Why do people do what they do?
What is going on in the mind?
Wundt - Answers - the founder of psychology
Stanley Hall - Answers - Brought Psychology to the US, born in Germany and
blossomed in the US, first research lab
Watson - Answers - founder of behaviorism
Freud - Answers - psychoanalytic theory
Attempts to explain personality, motivation and mental disorders by focusing on
unconscious determination of behavior( Mainly sex)
Freudian slips of tongue/politics
Skinner - Answers - Fundamental Principle
People or animals tend to repeat things that lead to good outcomes and not
repeat to things that lead to bad or neutral outcomes.
Asserted that all behaviors are governed by external stimuli
Free-will is an illusion
clinical psychology - Answers - diagnose and treat severe psychological disorders
counseling psychology - Answers - similar to clinical, work with individuals with less
severe disorders,
requires less training than a clinical psychologist.
School Psychology - Answers - Work with student with special needs in the classroom
Industrial Psychology - Answers - Working in human resources department, how to
better a job at a company, market...
Psychology vs. psychiatry - Answers - Psychiatry: branch of medical concerned with
psychological disorders, perscribe meds
Behaviorism - Answers - Scientific psychology should study only observable behavior,
watson and skinner
, Humanism - Answers - focuses on the human rather than divine or supernatural
explanations
Cognitive Psychology - Answers - Focuses on mental processes like memory
Social Psychology - Answers - How I influence you, and you influence me
Racism, genocide, prejudice, attitude
Two "great" assumptions in science - Answers - Positivism and empiricism
Positivism - Answers - Psych should not focus on the negative experiences but the
positive ones as well
Empiricism - Answers - An approach to understanding that involves collecting data or
making
observations
variable - Answers - A factor that can change in an experiment
Operational definition of a variable - Answers - How the variables are measured, what
specific variables mean in your study
independent variable - Answers - Being changed or manipulated
Doing the causing
Dependent variable - Answers - observed, outcome/thing that's being measured
Extraneous variables - Answers - Any variable other than the independent variable that
seems to
influence the dependent variable in a study
Experiments - Answers -
biological psychology - Answers - The connection between brain and behavior
Neuron structure and function - Answers - Receives, integrates and transmit behavior
Motor neurons - Answers -
sensory neurons - Answers -
mirror neurons - Answers - empathize and feel what others feels/ ties us to others
actions or
feelings, a mechanism for empathy
Glia - Answers - support for the neurons
Early definition of Psychology - Answers - "study of the mind" in the 18th century
Current definition of Psychology - Answers - scientific study of human and animal
behavior and mental processes
Why do people do what they do?
What is going on in the mind?
Wundt - Answers - the founder of psychology
Stanley Hall - Answers - Brought Psychology to the US, born in Germany and
blossomed in the US, first research lab
Watson - Answers - founder of behaviorism
Freud - Answers - psychoanalytic theory
Attempts to explain personality, motivation and mental disorders by focusing on
unconscious determination of behavior( Mainly sex)
Freudian slips of tongue/politics
Skinner - Answers - Fundamental Principle
People or animals tend to repeat things that lead to good outcomes and not
repeat to things that lead to bad or neutral outcomes.
Asserted that all behaviors are governed by external stimuli
Free-will is an illusion
clinical psychology - Answers - diagnose and treat severe psychological disorders
counseling psychology - Answers - similar to clinical, work with individuals with less
severe disorders,
requires less training than a clinical psychologist.
School Psychology - Answers - Work with student with special needs in the classroom
Industrial Psychology - Answers - Working in human resources department, how to
better a job at a company, market...
Psychology vs. psychiatry - Answers - Psychiatry: branch of medical concerned with
psychological disorders, perscribe meds
Behaviorism - Answers - Scientific psychology should study only observable behavior,
watson and skinner
, Humanism - Answers - focuses on the human rather than divine or supernatural
explanations
Cognitive Psychology - Answers - Focuses on mental processes like memory
Social Psychology - Answers - How I influence you, and you influence me
Racism, genocide, prejudice, attitude
Two "great" assumptions in science - Answers - Positivism and empiricism
Positivism - Answers - Psych should not focus on the negative experiences but the
positive ones as well
Empiricism - Answers - An approach to understanding that involves collecting data or
making
observations
variable - Answers - A factor that can change in an experiment
Operational definition of a variable - Answers - How the variables are measured, what
specific variables mean in your study
independent variable - Answers - Being changed or manipulated
Doing the causing
Dependent variable - Answers - observed, outcome/thing that's being measured
Extraneous variables - Answers - Any variable other than the independent variable that
seems to
influence the dependent variable in a study
Experiments - Answers -
biological psychology - Answers - The connection between brain and behavior
Neuron structure and function - Answers - Receives, integrates and transmit behavior
Motor neurons - Answers -
sensory neurons - Answers -
mirror neurons - Answers - empathize and feel what others feels/ ties us to others
actions or
feelings, a mechanism for empathy
Glia - Answers - support for the neurons
