Psych 1300 Hornstein Exam 1 Questions With
Correct Answers
What is psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the scientific study of
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behavior and the mind | | |
Three key elements of psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-science
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behavior
the mind
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developmental psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Nature vs. Nurture
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debate: biological vs. environmental aspects
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Stage theories, how do we change and grow
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Mental and physical growth
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Physiological Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-link between brain
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functioning and overall behavior| | |
- how our behavior is influenced by chemicals
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Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-perception, decision
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making, language, learning, memory
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study of mental activity
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,clinical psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-therapists
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work with research, treatment of psychological disorders
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ex. depression, bipolar etc.
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counseling psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-deal with more
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"normal" problems of life
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ex. career issues, family matters, etc
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Social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-First impressions, attraction,
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how attitudes are formed and maintained, prejudice and persuasion,
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conformity and obedience to authority. | | | |
Personality psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study the differences
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between people in such traits as anxiety, sociability, self-esteem,
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aggressiveness
Industrial and organizational psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Psychology applied to the workplace (training, placement, productivity).
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Practical issues: training, hiring, etc.
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Forensic psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Psychology in prisons.
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, Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founded the first laboratory
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for experimental psychology in 1879. Psychology became it's own
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science.
Introspection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(looking inward) was primary
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methodology. Believed that the mind is open for self-observation.
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free association - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Saw a word and respond with
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the first thing you think. And then record everything you think. This was
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hard because we aren't always conscious of everything we think. (ex:
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grass)
Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-adopts a clinical approach to
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studying the mind. Psychoanalysis was primary methodology
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Freudian Slip - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-we are all driven by some
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unconscious urge that is typically sexual and come out in different times
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(Ex: dreaming, mental illness, slip in words = true desire.) There is no
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data to support many of his early theories.
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The behaviorist alternative - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Redefined
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psychology as study of observable behavior. Rejected introspection,
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ignored mental activity.
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Correct Answers
What is psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the scientific study of
| | | | | | | | |
behavior and the mind | | |
Three key elements of psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-science
| | | | | | |
behavior
the mind
|
developmental psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Nature vs. Nurture
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debate: biological vs. environmental aspects
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Stage theories, how do we change and grow
| | | | | | |
Mental and physical growth
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Physiological Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-link between brain
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functioning and overall behavior| | |
- how our behavior is influenced by chemicals
| | | | | | |
Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-perception, decision
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making, language, learning, memory
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study of mental activity
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,clinical psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-therapists
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work with research, treatment of psychological disorders
| | | | | |
ex. depression, bipolar etc.
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counseling psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-deal with more
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"normal" problems of life
| | | | |
ex. career issues, family matters, etc
| | | | |
Social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-First impressions, attraction,
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how attitudes are formed and maintained, prejudice and persuasion,
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conformity and obedience to authority. | | | |
Personality psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study the differences
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between people in such traits as anxiety, sociability, self-esteem,
| | | | | | | | |
aggressiveness
Industrial and organizational psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Psychology applied to the workplace (training, placement, productivity).
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|
Practical issues: training, hiring, etc.
| | | |
Forensic psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Psychology in prisons.
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, Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founded the first laboratory
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for experimental psychology in 1879. Psychology became it's own
| | | | | | | | |
science.
Introspection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-(looking inward) was primary
| | | | | | |
methodology. Believed that the mind is open for self-observation.
| | | | | | | |
free association - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Saw a word and respond with
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the first thing you think. And then record everything you think. This was
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hard because we aren't always conscious of everything we think. (ex:
| | | | | | | | | | |
grass)
Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-adopts a clinical approach to
| | | | | | | | |
studying the mind. Psychoanalysis was primary methodology
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Freudian Slip - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-we are all driven by some
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unconscious urge that is typically sexual and come out in different times
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(Ex: dreaming, mental illness, slip in words = true desire.) There is no
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
data to support many of his early theories.
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The behaviorist alternative - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Redefined
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psychology as study of observable behavior. Rejected introspection,
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ignored mental activity.
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