Psychology 101 Exam 1 Updated Actual Questions And Correct Answers

PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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1. Psychology
Answer:
The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior

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2. Where did psychology branch out from?
Answer:
Physiology and Philosophy

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3. Structuralism
Answer:
Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not identified with anymore)

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4. 2 Structuralists
Answer:
Wundt and Titchener

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5. Functionalism
Answer:
Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt to their environment (not identified with
anymore)

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6. 2 Functionalists
Answer:
Darwin and James

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7. 3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena
Answer:
Theoretical Propositions, Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation

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8. Modern Perspectives
Answer:
Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary

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9. Psychodynamic

, Answer:
started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or prove because of small sample size

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10. Behaviorist
Answer:
Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts of environmental events; experiment

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11. Behaviorist Metaphor
Answer:
People are like machines

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12. Cognitive
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Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve information (Perspective)

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13. Cognitive Metaphor
Answer:
Brain like a computer

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14. Evolutionary
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Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our ancestors survive

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15. Evolutionary Metaphor
Answer:
runners in a race

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16. Biopsychology
Answer:
Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline)

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17. Developmental psychology
Answer:
How thought, feeling, and behavior develops through life span

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18. Social Psychology
Answer:
Influence of real or imagined others influence on the individual