PSYCHOLOGY 2000 LSU EXAM 1
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND 100%
VERIFIED ANSWERS
\.Psychology - ANSWERS✔-The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
\.Wilheim Wundt - ANSWERS✔-father of psychology, first attempt to bring
objectivity/measurements in psychology, founded the 1st experimental
psychology lab, work involved objective introspection
\.Edward Titchener - ANSWERS✔-student of Wundt, founder of structuralism
\.structuralism - ANSWERS✔-study consciousness by trying to understand its
smallest, most basic elements
\.William James - ANSWERS✔-founder of functionalism
\.Functionalism - ANSWERS✔-study consciousness & how the mind allows people
to work, play, adapt, to new circumstances..
\.Max Wertheimer - ANSWERS✔-founder of Gestalt Psychology
,\.Gestalt Psychology - ANSWERS✔-how we experience the world , "The whole is
greater than the sum of its parts"
\.Sigmund Freud - ANSWERS✔-worked with patients whose complaints had no
identifiable physical cause, focused on the role of the unconscious,focus on early
childhood developments
\.Psychoanalysis - ANSWERS✔-psychology based on Freud's ideas
\.John Watson - ANSWERS✔-conducted the Little Albert Study
\.John Watson - ANSWERS✔-founder of behaviorism
\.Behaviorism - ANSWERS✔-study of observable behaviors and actions
\.Scientific Method - ANSWERS✔-A system for reducing bias and error in the
measurement of data
\.Steps of the scientific method - ANSWERS✔-perceiving the question
forming a hypothesis
testing the hypothesis
drawing conclusions
reporting results
, \.Naturalistic observation - ANSWERS✔-watching animals or humans behave in
their normal environment
\.Observer effect - ANSWERS✔-tendency of people or animals to behave
differently from normal when they know they are being observed
\.Participant observation - ANSWERS✔-a naturalistic observation in which the
observer becomes a participant in the group being observed to reduce observer
bias
\.Observer bias - ANSWERS✔-tendency of observers to see what they expect to
see
\.Blind observers - ANSWERS✔-people who do not know what the research
question is to reduce observer bias
\.Correlations - ANSWERS✔-a measure of the relationship between two variables.
If variables are causally related, a ____________ wont tell you which variable is
the cause and which is the effect
\.sign - ANSWERS✔-direction of the relationship
\.number - ANSWERS✔-strength of relationship
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND 100%
VERIFIED ANSWERS
\.Psychology - ANSWERS✔-The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
\.Wilheim Wundt - ANSWERS✔-father of psychology, first attempt to bring
objectivity/measurements in psychology, founded the 1st experimental
psychology lab, work involved objective introspection
\.Edward Titchener - ANSWERS✔-student of Wundt, founder of structuralism
\.structuralism - ANSWERS✔-study consciousness by trying to understand its
smallest, most basic elements
\.William James - ANSWERS✔-founder of functionalism
\.Functionalism - ANSWERS✔-study consciousness & how the mind allows people
to work, play, adapt, to new circumstances..
\.Max Wertheimer - ANSWERS✔-founder of Gestalt Psychology
,\.Gestalt Psychology - ANSWERS✔-how we experience the world , "The whole is
greater than the sum of its parts"
\.Sigmund Freud - ANSWERS✔-worked with patients whose complaints had no
identifiable physical cause, focused on the role of the unconscious,focus on early
childhood developments
\.Psychoanalysis - ANSWERS✔-psychology based on Freud's ideas
\.John Watson - ANSWERS✔-conducted the Little Albert Study
\.John Watson - ANSWERS✔-founder of behaviorism
\.Behaviorism - ANSWERS✔-study of observable behaviors and actions
\.Scientific Method - ANSWERS✔-A system for reducing bias and error in the
measurement of data
\.Steps of the scientific method - ANSWERS✔-perceiving the question
forming a hypothesis
testing the hypothesis
drawing conclusions
reporting results
, \.Naturalistic observation - ANSWERS✔-watching animals or humans behave in
their normal environment
\.Observer effect - ANSWERS✔-tendency of people or animals to behave
differently from normal when they know they are being observed
\.Participant observation - ANSWERS✔-a naturalistic observation in which the
observer becomes a participant in the group being observed to reduce observer
bias
\.Observer bias - ANSWERS✔-tendency of observers to see what they expect to
see
\.Blind observers - ANSWERS✔-people who do not know what the research
question is to reduce observer bias
\.Correlations - ANSWERS✔-a measure of the relationship between two variables.
If variables are causally related, a ____________ wont tell you which variable is
the cause and which is the effect
\.sign - ANSWERS✔-direction of the relationship
\.number - ANSWERS✔-strength of relationship
