PSY 105 - Exam 1 Questions Perfectly Answered!!

Psychology - Answer-scientific study of thought & behavior - How the mind works & the rules that govern behavior within and between individuals - Practice & science Greek - Answer-Psyche - soul or mind Logos - word Psychology as a science has 4 goals - Answer-1) Describe 2) predict 3) explain 4) control Subdisciplines - Answer-Cognitive Developmental Social Personality Health Educational industial organizational Subfields - Helping individuals: - Answer-Counseling psychologist Clinical Psychologists psychiatrists behavior analysis psychologistSubfields - Serving Organizations - Answer-Industrial/organizational psychologist Educational psychologist Human factors psychologist Subfields - Teaching & research - Answer-Developmental social memory learning biological (brain & drugs) Origins - Answer-Socrates - socratic method Plato - knowledge thru reflection, allegory of cave Aristotle - knowledge thru experience (empiricism) Timeline: Prehistoric - Answer-Drilling into people's skulls Timeline: Middle ages - Answer-Treated as demon possessed Timeline: 1800s - Answer-Asylums = used as storage facilities for the mentally disabled or insane Timeline: Mid 20th century - Answer-Modern diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, psychotherapy, and drug therapy Timeline: 1980s & 1990s - Answer-Neuroscience Behavioral genetics Evolutionary psychology John Locke - Answer-17th century - Empiricism = knowledge & thought come thru experience- Blank slate = tabula rasa Psychophysics - Answer-Late 1800s - relationship between physical stimuli & the sensations & perceptions they affects - "The perception of physical properties is not the same as the physical properties themselves" - Early researchers = experience through senses William Wundt - Answer-1879 - 1st psychology lab * Father of psychology - Structuralism Structuralism - Answer-Wundt & Eichener (student) - a school of thought that sought to identify the components (structure) of the mind Introspection - Answer-- To study elements of thought - Used by many early researchers - Wundt & eichener used - Subjects had to be trained - Later abandoned *subjective NOT objective