PSY 201 Exam 1(Chapters 1-4) Questions
With Correct Answers
Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The science of behavior and mental
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processes; "study of the mind"
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Clinical & Counseling Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Help
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individuals experiencing a continuum of psychological difficulty
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Forensic Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Provide psychological
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enterprise to the legal and judicial system
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Industrial/Organization Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Deals with | | | | | |
psychological issues in the work place | | | | |
Sports Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Focus on improving athletic
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performance
School Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Works with teachers parents
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and children to remedy students' behavioral, emotional, and learning
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difficulties
,Developmental Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Conduct research
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on individuals' emotional, physiological, and cognitive processes, and
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how these change with age
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Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Emphasis on internal
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mental processes -- thinking, remembering, perceiving, learning,
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problem-solving
Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Examine how an individual's
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thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by actual or perceived
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presence of others/society | |
Experimental/ Biological Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Examine
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basic psychological processes and the physiological bases of behavior in
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humans and animals | |
Psychology vs. Psychiatry - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Psychology: Broad
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field with specialization, holds a PhD, grad training with research
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emphasis, some licensed to conduct psychological treatment but mostly
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|do research
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Psychiatry: Medical specialty, holds MD, medical training, licensed to
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prescribe medication |
, Pseudo-science - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Erroneous assertion or | | | | | |
practices set forth as being scientific psychology -- 6th sense, ghost
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whisper, astrology |
Biological Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- the brain, nervous
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system, endocrine system, and genes
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- neuroscience & evolutionary psychology
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- Rene Decrates: first to say the body and mind are separated
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Behavioral Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- We respond to
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surroundings according to principles of behavioral learning
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- the stimuli in our environment and the previous consequences of our
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behaviors determine our behavior| | |
- Watson & Skinner
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Cognitive Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- we are info processing
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systems
- a person's unique pattern of perceptions, interpretations,
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expectations, beliefs, and memories | | |
- Wundt & James
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Whole-person Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Psychodynamic
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processes in our unconscious minds
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With Correct Answers
Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The science of behavior and mental
| | | | | | | |
processes; "study of the mind"
| | | | |
Clinical & Counseling Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Help
| | | | | | |
individuals experiencing a continuum of psychological difficulty
| | | | | |
Forensic Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Provide psychological
| | | | | |
enterprise to the legal and judicial system
| | | | | |
Industrial/Organization Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Deals with | | | | | |
psychological issues in the work place | | | | |
Sports Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Focus on improving athletic
| | | | | | | |
performance
School Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Works with teachers parents
| | | | | | |
and children to remedy students' behavioral, emotional, and learning
| | | | | | | | | |
difficulties
,Developmental Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Conduct research
| | | | | |
on individuals' emotional, physiological, and cognitive processes, and
| | | | | | | |
how these change with age
| | | |
Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Emphasis on internal
| | | | | | |
mental processes -- thinking, remembering, perceiving, learning,
| | | | | | |
problem-solving
Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Examine how an individual's
| | | | | | | |
thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by actual or perceived
| | | | | | | | | |
presence of others/society | |
Experimental/ Biological Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Examine
| | | | | |
basic psychological processes and the physiological bases of behavior in
| | | | | | | | | |
humans and animals | |
Psychology vs. Psychiatry - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Psychology: Broad
| | | | | | |
field with specialization, holds a PhD, grad training with research
| | | | | | | | | |
emphasis, some licensed to conduct psychological treatment but mostly
| | | | | | | |
|do research
|
Psychiatry: Medical specialty, holds MD, medical training, licensed to
| | | | | | | | |
prescribe medication |
, Pseudo-science - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Erroneous assertion or | | | | | |
practices set forth as being scientific psychology -- 6th sense, ghost
| | | | | | | | | | |
whisper, astrology |
Biological Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- the brain, nervous
| | | | | | | |
system, endocrine system, and genes
| | | |
- neuroscience & evolutionary psychology
| | | |
- Rene Decrates: first to say the body and mind are separated
| | | | | | | | | | |
Behavioral Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- We respond to
| | | | | | | |
surroundings according to principles of behavioral learning
| | | | | | |
- the stimuli in our environment and the previous consequences of our
| | | | | | | | | | | |
behaviors determine our behavior| | |
- Watson & Skinner
| | |
Cognitive Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- we are info processing
| | | | | | | | |
systems
- a person's unique pattern of perceptions, interpretations,
| | | | | | | |
expectations, beliefs, and memories | | |
- Wundt & James
| | |
Whole-person Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Psychodynamic
| | | | |
processes in our unconscious minds
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