Northwestern Psych 110 Exam #1questions and
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mental states, thoughts, feelings, and motives (what the brain does) - answer ✔✔-mind
studied structure of consciousness and conscious experience- break down conscious experience into
basic elements like chemistry - answer ✔✔-structuralism
any over action - answer ✔✔-behavior
structuralism - answer ✔✔-Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener (Germany)
requires one to describe sensory elements of experience in their most basic form - answer ✔✔-
Introspection (used in structuralism)
Letting past experience influence an introspective report (ex describing a can of seltzer as being
carbonated) - answer ✔✔-stimulus error
argued that consciousness should be studied for its function rather than structure - answer ✔✔-
functionalism
founder of functionalism - answer ✔✔-William James (Harvard, USA)
experience is not made up of finite components, but rather the whole of experience is something
indescribably diff than sum of parts - answer ✔✔-Gestalt
focus on Gestalt, anti-Structuralist - answer ✔✔-Max Wertheimer (Germany)
Thought behavior was
determined by unconscious
drives, and affected heavily by
childhood. Used dream
analysis and free-association to
uncover unconscious desires
and conflicts - answer ✔✔-Psychoanalytic
founder of psychoanalysis - answer ✔✔-Sigmund Freud
Argued should study behavior
as an end to itself, rather than as
a means for inferring mental
processes or structures - answer ✔✔-Behaviorism
Primary psychologists associated with behavioral psychology - answer ✔✔-John Watson, BF Skinner,
Ivan Pavlov
Humans determine their
own fate through free will,
everyone can develop to his
or her full potential. - answer ✔✔-Humanistic
created hierarchy of needs - answer ✔✔-Abraham Maslow
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, Developed "client-centered" therapy - answer ✔✔-Carl Rogers
Brought back the mind from
behaviorists and Freudians -
thought thinking should best
be studied as information
processing- cognitive perspective dominant - answer ✔✔-Cognitive Revolution
leader of cognitive revolution - answer ✔✔-George Miller (Harvard)
believed group
behavior was different than
what could be expected from
the individuals alone - answer ✔✔-social revolution
believed in the need to
understand both the individual
level and social pressures to
fully predict behavior - answer ✔✔-Kurt Lewin
modern idea that all perspectives contribute to understanding of the mind - answer ✔✔-interactionist
measurable conditions, events, characteristics or behaviors of interest - answer ✔✔-variables
a guess about relationships among variables - answer ✔✔-hypothesis
translation of the hypothesized variables into specifics, concerte measure or manipulatable definition of
the variable of interest - answer ✔✔-operationalization
deep investigation of a single case - answer ✔✔-case study
question or observe many participants concerning phenomenon of interest - answer ✔✔-survey
an expression of the relationship between 2 variables - answer ✔✔-correlation
manipulation of one set of variables in order to assess effects on other variables - answer ✔✔-
experiment
placing participants into conditions randomly so on average groups are the same - answer ✔✔-random
assignment
any alternative variable that could potentially explain differences between groups - answer ✔✔-
confound
every participant's experience is identical except for your manipulation (ex computer administered
study) - answer ✔✔-rigid control
subtle differences in treatment may influence participant behavior - answer ✔✔-experimenter
expectancy effect
tendency of observers to see what they expect to see - answer ✔✔-observer bias
a tendency to give socially approved answers to questions about oneself in studies - answer ✔✔-social
desirability
the desire to confirm study hypothesis - answer ✔✔-suggestibility
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answers fully verified.100% correct
mental states, thoughts, feelings, and motives (what the brain does) - answer ✔✔-mind
studied structure of consciousness and conscious experience- break down conscious experience into
basic elements like chemistry - answer ✔✔-structuralism
any over action - answer ✔✔-behavior
structuralism - answer ✔✔-Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener (Germany)
requires one to describe sensory elements of experience in their most basic form - answer ✔✔-
Introspection (used in structuralism)
Letting past experience influence an introspective report (ex describing a can of seltzer as being
carbonated) - answer ✔✔-stimulus error
argued that consciousness should be studied for its function rather than structure - answer ✔✔-
functionalism
founder of functionalism - answer ✔✔-William James (Harvard, USA)
experience is not made up of finite components, but rather the whole of experience is something
indescribably diff than sum of parts - answer ✔✔-Gestalt
focus on Gestalt, anti-Structuralist - answer ✔✔-Max Wertheimer (Germany)
Thought behavior was
determined by unconscious
drives, and affected heavily by
childhood. Used dream
analysis and free-association to
uncover unconscious desires
and conflicts - answer ✔✔-Psychoanalytic
founder of psychoanalysis - answer ✔✔-Sigmund Freud
Argued should study behavior
as an end to itself, rather than as
a means for inferring mental
processes or structures - answer ✔✔-Behaviorism
Primary psychologists associated with behavioral psychology - answer ✔✔-John Watson, BF Skinner,
Ivan Pavlov
Humans determine their
own fate through free will,
everyone can develop to his
or her full potential. - answer ✔✔-Humanistic
created hierarchy of needs - answer ✔✔-Abraham Maslow
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, Developed "client-centered" therapy - answer ✔✔-Carl Rogers
Brought back the mind from
behaviorists and Freudians -
thought thinking should best
be studied as information
processing- cognitive perspective dominant - answer ✔✔-Cognitive Revolution
leader of cognitive revolution - answer ✔✔-George Miller (Harvard)
believed group
behavior was different than
what could be expected from
the individuals alone - answer ✔✔-social revolution
believed in the need to
understand both the individual
level and social pressures to
fully predict behavior - answer ✔✔-Kurt Lewin
modern idea that all perspectives contribute to understanding of the mind - answer ✔✔-interactionist
measurable conditions, events, characteristics or behaviors of interest - answer ✔✔-variables
a guess about relationships among variables - answer ✔✔-hypothesis
translation of the hypothesized variables into specifics, concerte measure or manipulatable definition of
the variable of interest - answer ✔✔-operationalization
deep investigation of a single case - answer ✔✔-case study
question or observe many participants concerning phenomenon of interest - answer ✔✔-survey
an expression of the relationship between 2 variables - answer ✔✔-correlation
manipulation of one set of variables in order to assess effects on other variables - answer ✔✔-
experiment
placing participants into conditions randomly so on average groups are the same - answer ✔✔-random
assignment
any alternative variable that could potentially explain differences between groups - answer ✔✔-
confound
every participant's experience is identical except for your manipulation (ex computer administered
study) - answer ✔✔-rigid control
subtle differences in treatment may influence participant behavior - answer ✔✔-experimenter
expectancy effect
tendency of observers to see what they expect to see - answer ✔✔-observer bias
a tendency to give socially approved answers to questions about oneself in studies - answer ✔✔-social
desirability
the desire to confirm study hypothesis - answer ✔✔-suggestibility
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