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GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY 2301 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
Define Psychology ☑️☑️ The scientific study of behavior and
mental processes.
Functionalism ☑️☑️ Studies the way the mind functions.
Psychoanalysis ☑️☑️ An approach to understanding
behavior and mental processes developed by Freud, which
focuses on unconscious processes and unresolved conflicts.
(Freud)
Behavioral Perspective ☑️☑️ An approach to understanding
behavior and mental processes that emphasizes objective,
observable environmental influences on overt behavior.
(Watson and Skinner)
Behaviorism ☑️☑️ Scientific study of observable behavior.
Humanistic ☑️☑️ Focuses on current environment, how it
affects individual, and whether basic needs of love and
acceptance were being met.
Humanistic ☑️☑️ An approach to understanding behavior
and mental processes that perceives human nature as naturally
positive and growth seeking; it emphasizes free will and self-
actualization. (Maslow and Rogers)
Cognitive Psychology ☑️☑️ Used technological advances to
study psychology's original focus of internal/cognitive
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processes. Brain activity vs mental. Thinking, perceiving,
problem solving, memory, language, and information
processing.
Biopsychosocial Model ☑️☑️ An integrative, unifying theme
of modern psychology that sees biological, psychological, and
social processes as interacting influences.
Naturalistic observation ☑️☑️ The process of observing and
recording a research participant's behavior and mental
processes in his or her natural setting, without interfering.
They do not know they are being tested.
Survey ☑️☑️ A research technique that questions a large
sample of people to assess their behaviors and mental
processes. Created to gather information (phone, paper or
interviews)
Case Study ☑️☑️ An in-depth study of a single research
participant or a small group of individuals. Can provide
information about disorders or disease.
correlation research ☑️☑️ Research that measures the
degree of relationship (if any) between two or more variables
in order to determine how well one variable predicts another.
Experiment ☑️☑️ A carefully controlled scientific procedure
that involves the manipulation of variables to determine cause
and effect.
Independent Variable (IV) ☑️☑️ The variable that is
manipulated to determine its causal effect on the dependent
variable; also called the treatment variable.
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY 2301 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
Define Psychology ☑️☑️ The scientific study of behavior and
mental processes.
Functionalism ☑️☑️ Studies the way the mind functions.
Psychoanalysis ☑️☑️ An approach to understanding
behavior and mental processes developed by Freud, which
focuses on unconscious processes and unresolved conflicts.
(Freud)
Behavioral Perspective ☑️☑️ An approach to understanding
behavior and mental processes that emphasizes objective,
observable environmental influences on overt behavior.
(Watson and Skinner)
Behaviorism ☑️☑️ Scientific study of observable behavior.
Humanistic ☑️☑️ Focuses on current environment, how it
affects individual, and whether basic needs of love and
acceptance were being met.
Humanistic ☑️☑️ An approach to understanding behavior
and mental processes that perceives human nature as naturally
positive and growth seeking; it emphasizes free will and self-
actualization. (Maslow and Rogers)
Cognitive Psychology ☑️☑️ Used technological advances to
study psychology's original focus of internal/cognitive
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processes. Brain activity vs mental. Thinking, perceiving,
problem solving, memory, language, and information
processing.
Biopsychosocial Model ☑️☑️ An integrative, unifying theme
of modern psychology that sees biological, psychological, and
social processes as interacting influences.
Naturalistic observation ☑️☑️ The process of observing and
recording a research participant's behavior and mental
processes in his or her natural setting, without interfering.
They do not know they are being tested.
Survey ☑️☑️ A research technique that questions a large
sample of people to assess their behaviors and mental
processes. Created to gather information (phone, paper or
interviews)
Case Study ☑️☑️ An in-depth study of a single research
participant or a small group of individuals. Can provide
information about disorders or disease.
correlation research ☑️☑️ Research that measures the
degree of relationship (if any) between two or more variables
in order to determine how well one variable predicts another.
Experiment ☑️☑️ A carefully controlled scientific procedure
that involves the manipulation of variables to determine cause
and effect.
Independent Variable (IV) ☑️☑️ The variable that is
manipulated to determine its causal effect on the dependent
variable; also called the treatment variable.
