PSY 121-EXAM 1-MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY-SP18
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ACCURATE ANSWERS
Psychology - Answers - The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Four Goals of Psychology - Answers - Description, Explanation, Prediction, and Control
Wilhelm Wundt - Answers - "Father of Psychology"; introspection-1879
Edward Titchener - Answers - Wundt's student; brought structuralism to America
Margaret Washburn - Answers - First woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology
William James - Answers - founder of functionalism; studied how humans use
perception to function in our environment
Minorities in Psychology - Answers - many of psychology's early pioneers were
minorities such as African Americans who, despite prejudice and racism, made
important contributions to the study of human and animal behavior
Functionalism Influenced the Modern Fields of _________ - Answers - educational,
evolutionary, industrial, and organizational psychology
Wertheimer - Answers - Started Gestalt. Studied sensation and perception
Freud - Answers - proposed that the unconscious mind controls much of our conscious
behavior in his theory of psychoanalysis
Watson - Answers - proposed a science of behavior called behaviorism, focused only
on the study of observable stimuli and responses
Watson and Raynor - Answers - demonstrated that a phobia could be learned by
conditioning a baby to be afraid of a white rat-Little Albert
Mary Cover Jones - Answers - one of Watson's more famous students in behaviorism
and child development, later demonstrated that a learned phobia could be counter-
conditioned
Modern Freudians - Answers - Anna Freud, Jung, and Adler changed the emphasis in
Freud's original theory into a kind of neo-Freudianism
Skinner - Answers - Operant conditioning
Maslow and Rogers - Answers - The humanistic perspective and therapy approach.
, Cognitive Psychology - Answers - study of learning, memory, language, and problem
solving, and includes the field of cognitive neuroscience
Biopsychology - Answers - study of biological bases of behavior, such as hormones,
heredity, chemicals in the nervous system, structural defects in the brain, and the
effects of physical diseases
Principles of Evolution - Answers - used in perspective to see how mind works as it
does; behavior seen as adaptive or survival value
Psychologists - Answers - academic degrees; counseling, teaching, and research, may
specialize in any areas of psychology
Psychology Specialization - Answers - clinical, counseling, developmental, social, and
personality
Psychiatrists - Answers - medical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for
persons with mental disorders
Psychiatric Social Worker - Answers - social workers with special training in the
influences of the environment on mental illness
Scientific Method - Answers - determine facts and control possibilities of error and bias
when observing behavior; question, hypothesis, test, conclusions, report results
Naturalistic Observation - Answers - watching behavior in real-world settings without
trying to manipulate the situation; disadvantage-lack of control
Laboratory Observations - Answers - watching animals or people in artificial but
controlled situation, such as laboratory
Case Studies - Answers - detailed investigations of one subject, whereas surveys
involve asking standardized questions of large groups of people that represent a sample
of the population of interest-info gained cannot be applied to other cases
Correlation - Answers - statistical technique that allows researchers to discover and
predict relationships between variables of interest-does not equal causation
Positive Correlation - Answers - A relationship between two variables in which both
variables either increase or decrease together.
Experiments - Answers - tightly controlled manipulations of variables that allow
researchers to determine cause-and-effect relationships
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ACCURATE ANSWERS
Psychology - Answers - The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Four Goals of Psychology - Answers - Description, Explanation, Prediction, and Control
Wilhelm Wundt - Answers - "Father of Psychology"; introspection-1879
Edward Titchener - Answers - Wundt's student; brought structuralism to America
Margaret Washburn - Answers - First woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology
William James - Answers - founder of functionalism; studied how humans use
perception to function in our environment
Minorities in Psychology - Answers - many of psychology's early pioneers were
minorities such as African Americans who, despite prejudice and racism, made
important contributions to the study of human and animal behavior
Functionalism Influenced the Modern Fields of _________ - Answers - educational,
evolutionary, industrial, and organizational psychology
Wertheimer - Answers - Started Gestalt. Studied sensation and perception
Freud - Answers - proposed that the unconscious mind controls much of our conscious
behavior in his theory of psychoanalysis
Watson - Answers - proposed a science of behavior called behaviorism, focused only
on the study of observable stimuli and responses
Watson and Raynor - Answers - demonstrated that a phobia could be learned by
conditioning a baby to be afraid of a white rat-Little Albert
Mary Cover Jones - Answers - one of Watson's more famous students in behaviorism
and child development, later demonstrated that a learned phobia could be counter-
conditioned
Modern Freudians - Answers - Anna Freud, Jung, and Adler changed the emphasis in
Freud's original theory into a kind of neo-Freudianism
Skinner - Answers - Operant conditioning
Maslow and Rogers - Answers - The humanistic perspective and therapy approach.
, Cognitive Psychology - Answers - study of learning, memory, language, and problem
solving, and includes the field of cognitive neuroscience
Biopsychology - Answers - study of biological bases of behavior, such as hormones,
heredity, chemicals in the nervous system, structural defects in the brain, and the
effects of physical diseases
Principles of Evolution - Answers - used in perspective to see how mind works as it
does; behavior seen as adaptive or survival value
Psychologists - Answers - academic degrees; counseling, teaching, and research, may
specialize in any areas of psychology
Psychology Specialization - Answers - clinical, counseling, developmental, social, and
personality
Psychiatrists - Answers - medical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for
persons with mental disorders
Psychiatric Social Worker - Answers - social workers with special training in the
influences of the environment on mental illness
Scientific Method - Answers - determine facts and control possibilities of error and bias
when observing behavior; question, hypothesis, test, conclusions, report results
Naturalistic Observation - Answers - watching behavior in real-world settings without
trying to manipulate the situation; disadvantage-lack of control
Laboratory Observations - Answers - watching animals or people in artificial but
controlled situation, such as laboratory
Case Studies - Answers - detailed investigations of one subject, whereas surveys
involve asking standardized questions of large groups of people that represent a sample
of the population of interest-info gained cannot be applied to other cases
Correlation - Answers - statistical technique that allows researchers to discover and
predict relationships between variables of interest-does not equal causation
Positive Correlation - Answers - A relationship between two variables in which both
variables either increase or decrease together.
Experiments - Answers - tightly controlled manipulations of variables that allow
researchers to determine cause-and-effect relationships
