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PSY10007 Exam Questions And Answers
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Psychology - Answer✔the science of behaviour and mental processes (the goals of psychology
are to understand, explain and predict human behaviour in different contexts)
biological psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who analyse the biological factors influencing
behaviour and mental processes (also called physiological psychologists)
cognitive psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study the mental processes underlying
judgement, decision making, problem-solving, imagining and other aspects of human thought
or cognition (also called experimental psychologists)
developmental psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who seek to understand, describe and
explore how behaviour and mental processes change over a lifetime
personality psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study the characteristics that make
individuals similar to or different from one another
clinical and counselling psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who seek to assess, understand
and change abnormal behaviour
community psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who work with communities and individuals
to prevent psychological disorders by striving for change in social systems
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health psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study the effects of behaviour and mental
processes on health and illness, and vice versa
educational psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study methods by which instructors
teach and students learn, and who apply their results to improving those methods
school psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who work with teachers and students, assist in
diagnosing students' academic problems, provide counselling to students, and set up programs
to improve students' achievement
social psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study how people influence one another's
behaviour and mental processes, individually and in groups
organisational psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study ways to improve efficiency,
productivity and satisfaction among workers and the organisation that employ them
sport psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who explore the relationships between athletic
performance and such psychological variables as motivation and emotion
forensic psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who assist in jury selection, evaluate
defendants' mental competence to stand trial, and deal with other issues involving psychology
and the law
environmental psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study the effects of the physical
environment on behaviour and mental processes
brief history of psychology - Answer✔the founding of modern psychology is usually marked as
1879
consciousness - Answer✔the awareness of external stimuli and our own mental activity
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structuralism - Answer✔attempting to determine the structure of consciousness (Wilhelm
Wundt, expanded by Edward Titchener)
functionalism - Answer✔attempting to explain psychological processes in terms of the role or
function they play
(John B. Watson)
biological approach - Answer✔an approach to psychology in which behaviour and behaviour
disorders are seen as the result of physical processes, especially those relating to the brain and
to hormones and other chemicals
evolutionary approach - Answer✔an approach to psychology that emphasises the inherited,
adaptive aspects of behaviour and mental processes
psychodynamic approach - Answer✔a view developed by Freud that emphasises the interplay
of unconscious mental processes in determining human thought, feelings and behaviour
behavioural approach - Answer✔an approach to psychology emphasising that human
behaviour is determined mainly by what a person has learned, especially from rewards and
punishments
cognitive approach - Answer✔a way of looking at human behaviour that emphasises research
on how the brain takes in information, creates perceptions, forms and retrieves memories,
processes information and generated integrated patterns of action
humanistic approach - Answer✔an approach to psychology that views behaviour as controlled
by the decisions that people make about their lives based on their perceptions of the world
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PSY10007 Exam Questions And Answers
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Psychology - Answer✔the science of behaviour and mental processes (the goals of psychology
are to understand, explain and predict human behaviour in different contexts)
biological psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who analyse the biological factors influencing
behaviour and mental processes (also called physiological psychologists)
cognitive psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study the mental processes underlying
judgement, decision making, problem-solving, imagining and other aspects of human thought
or cognition (also called experimental psychologists)
developmental psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who seek to understand, describe and
explore how behaviour and mental processes change over a lifetime
personality psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study the characteristics that make
individuals similar to or different from one another
clinical and counselling psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who seek to assess, understand
and change abnormal behaviour
community psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who work with communities and individuals
to prevent psychological disorders by striving for change in social systems
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health psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study the effects of behaviour and mental
processes on health and illness, and vice versa
educational psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study methods by which instructors
teach and students learn, and who apply their results to improving those methods
school psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who work with teachers and students, assist in
diagnosing students' academic problems, provide counselling to students, and set up programs
to improve students' achievement
social psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study how people influence one another's
behaviour and mental processes, individually and in groups
organisational psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study ways to improve efficiency,
productivity and satisfaction among workers and the organisation that employ them
sport psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who explore the relationships between athletic
performance and such psychological variables as motivation and emotion
forensic psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who assist in jury selection, evaluate
defendants' mental competence to stand trial, and deal with other issues involving psychology
and the law
environmental psychologists - Answer✔psychologists who study the effects of the physical
environment on behaviour and mental processes
brief history of psychology - Answer✔the founding of modern psychology is usually marked as
1879
consciousness - Answer✔the awareness of external stimuli and our own mental activity
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structuralism - Answer✔attempting to determine the structure of consciousness (Wilhelm
Wundt, expanded by Edward Titchener)
functionalism - Answer✔attempting to explain psychological processes in terms of the role or
function they play
(John B. Watson)
biological approach - Answer✔an approach to psychology in which behaviour and behaviour
disorders are seen as the result of physical processes, especially those relating to the brain and
to hormones and other chemicals
evolutionary approach - Answer✔an approach to psychology that emphasises the inherited,
adaptive aspects of behaviour and mental processes
psychodynamic approach - Answer✔a view developed by Freud that emphasises the interplay
of unconscious mental processes in determining human thought, feelings and behaviour
behavioural approach - Answer✔an approach to psychology emphasising that human
behaviour is determined mainly by what a person has learned, especially from rewards and
punishments
cognitive approach - Answer✔a way of looking at human behaviour that emphasises research
on how the brain takes in information, creates perceptions, forms and retrieves memories,
processes information and generated integrated patterns of action
humanistic approach - Answer✔an approach to psychology that views behaviour as controlled
by the decisions that people make about their lives based on their perceptions of the world
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