MAJOR FIELD TEST IN PSYCHOLOGY 2024 210 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED AND VERIFIED

MAJOR FIELD TEST IN PSYCHOLOGY 2024 210 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED AND VERIFIED Introspection - CORRECT ANSWER Focusing on inner sensations, images and feelings. Wundt used this approach as did James with the stream of consciousness. Behaviorists - CORRECT ANSWER John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner dismissed introspection and redefined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior. Humanistic Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER Rebelled against both Behaviorism and Freudian psychology. Pioneers Carl Rogers and Maslow emphasized the importance of current environmental influences on our growth potential. Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER Science of behavior and mental processes. Nature-nurture issue - CORRECT ANSWER The controversy over the relative contributions of biology and experience to the development of our traits and behaviors. Biopsychosocial approach - CORRECT ANSWER Considers the influences of biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors. Applied research - CORRECT ANSWER practical research- industrial organizational psychologists Hindsight bias - CORRECT ANSWER The tendency to believe after learning an outcome, that we would have foreseen it. The I knew it all along phenomenon) Overconfidence - CORRECT ANSWER Humans tend to think they know more than they do. MAJOR FIELD TEST IN PSYCHOLOGY 2024 210 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED AND VERIFIED Theory - CORRECT ANSWER An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER Testable prediction Case study - CORRECT ANSWER Examines one individual in depth in hope of revealing things true of us all Naturalistic observation - CORRECT ANSWER Observing and recording behavior in a naturally occurring situation without trying to manipulate or control the situation Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER the extent to which two factors vary together. Positive/negative ranges from -1 to 1. Correlation does not imply causation. Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER Enable to the researcher to focus on the possible effects of one or more factors by 1) manipulating the factors of interest and 2) holding constant other factors Experimental group - CORRECT ANSWER receives a treatment Control group - CORRECT ANSWER receives a pseudotreatment double-blind procedure - CORRECT ANSWER neither the participants nor the research assistants collecting the data will know which group is receiving the treatment Dendrite - CORRECT ANSWER the neurons busy branching extensions that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body