UAH PY 101 Final
Structuralism (Edward Titchener) - correct answer ✔School of psychology
that analyzes consciousness into its basic elements and investigates how
these elements are related.
Introspection - correct answer ✔examination of one's own thoughts and
feelings
Behavioral Perspective - correct answer ✔Only observable events, stimulus
response relations, can be study scientifically, ex: doing something to get
reward.
psychoanalytic perspective - correct answer ✔Unconscious determinants of
behavior
Humanistic Perspective - correct answer ✔Unique aspects of human
experience, ex: jealousy
cognitive perspective - correct answer ✔Thoughts & Mental process, how we
encode, process, store, and retrieve information
Biological Perspective - correct answer ✔Physiological, genetic, and neutral
bases of behavior And humans and animals
evolutionary perspective - correct answer ✔Behavior patterns that have
evolved to solve adaptive problems
, Psychology - correct answer ✔the scientific study of behavior and mental
processes
independent variable - correct answer ✔A condition or event that an
experimenter varies in order to see its impact on another variable. (The
treatment)
dependent variable - correct answer ✔The variable that is thought to be
affected by the manipulation of the independent variable. It is usually a
measurement of some aspect of the subjects' behavior. (behavior that is
measured)
experimental group - correct answer ✔the group in an experiment that
receives the variable being tested
experimental method - correct answer ✔Investigator manipulates some
aspect of the environment to see how this affects the behavior of the sample
of individuals studied.
Placebo - correct answer ✔something which has a positive mental effect, but
no physical effect
positive correlation - correct answer ✔indicates that two variables covary
(change together) in the same direction.
negative correlation - correct answer ✔indicates that two variables covary in
opposite directions.
Neurotransmitter: Acetylcholine - correct answer ✔Muscle tension, learning,
rapid eye movement(REM)
Structuralism (Edward Titchener) - correct answer ✔School of psychology
that analyzes consciousness into its basic elements and investigates how
these elements are related.
Introspection - correct answer ✔examination of one's own thoughts and
feelings
Behavioral Perspective - correct answer ✔Only observable events, stimulus
response relations, can be study scientifically, ex: doing something to get
reward.
psychoanalytic perspective - correct answer ✔Unconscious determinants of
behavior
Humanistic Perspective - correct answer ✔Unique aspects of human
experience, ex: jealousy
cognitive perspective - correct answer ✔Thoughts & Mental process, how we
encode, process, store, and retrieve information
Biological Perspective - correct answer ✔Physiological, genetic, and neutral
bases of behavior And humans and animals
evolutionary perspective - correct answer ✔Behavior patterns that have
evolved to solve adaptive problems
, Psychology - correct answer ✔the scientific study of behavior and mental
processes
independent variable - correct answer ✔A condition or event that an
experimenter varies in order to see its impact on another variable. (The
treatment)
dependent variable - correct answer ✔The variable that is thought to be
affected by the manipulation of the independent variable. It is usually a
measurement of some aspect of the subjects' behavior. (behavior that is
measured)
experimental group - correct answer ✔the group in an experiment that
receives the variable being tested
experimental method - correct answer ✔Investigator manipulates some
aspect of the environment to see how this affects the behavior of the sample
of individuals studied.
Placebo - correct answer ✔something which has a positive mental effect, but
no physical effect
positive correlation - correct answer ✔indicates that two variables covary
(change together) in the same direction.
negative correlation - correct answer ✔indicates that two variables covary in
opposite directions.
Neurotransmitter: Acetylcholine - correct answer ✔Muscle tension, learning,
rapid eye movement(REM)
