PSY110 Unit 1 Exam with Complete Solutions
behaviorism - ✔✔psychological approach emphasizing roles on environmental forces in
producing behavior
Instructional Review Boards (IRBs) - ✔✔groups responsible for ensuring research is meeting
accepted standards of science and is ethical
Ethical Research Components (5) - ✔✔privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, deception,
risks
privacy - ✔✔not ethical to observe private behaviors without consent
confidentiality - ✔✔participant info must be kept secret to prevent people from linking others
to
the study
deception - ✔✔if deception is used the participants must be informed after the study to why
such
deception was used in the study
Cross-species Comparisons - ✔✔help us compare structure and function between humans
and
animals, lends ability to perform unethical studies
Biological/Physiological Psychology - ✔✔study of the brain, nervous system, genetics and
, effects of medications on behavior
Cognitive Psychology - ✔✔study of mental processes, memory, thinking and decision-making
Developmental Psychology - ✔✔study of changes over the lifespan
Personality Psychology - ✔✔study of consistencies over time and how we get to be the way
we
are
Social Psychology - ✔✔study of how people are affected by their social environment and
interpersonal relationships
Clinical and Counseling Psychology - ✔✔study of psychological disorders, causes, treatments
and prevention
structuralism - ✔✔based on idea that conscious experience broken down into underlying
parts
functionalism - ✔✔based on idea that mind and behavior have an adaptive purpose
psychoanalysis - ✔✔therapeutic approach to bring patient's unconscious mind to awareness
Gestalt Theory - ✔✔whole of personal experience is different that the sum of its parts
culture - ✔✔the beliefs, values, rules and customs that exist within a group of people who
share
behaviorism - ✔✔psychological approach emphasizing roles on environmental forces in
producing behavior
Instructional Review Boards (IRBs) - ✔✔groups responsible for ensuring research is meeting
accepted standards of science and is ethical
Ethical Research Components (5) - ✔✔privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, deception,
risks
privacy - ✔✔not ethical to observe private behaviors without consent
confidentiality - ✔✔participant info must be kept secret to prevent people from linking others
to
the study
deception - ✔✔if deception is used the participants must be informed after the study to why
such
deception was used in the study
Cross-species Comparisons - ✔✔help us compare structure and function between humans
and
animals, lends ability to perform unethical studies
Biological/Physiological Psychology - ✔✔study of the brain, nervous system, genetics and
, effects of medications on behavior
Cognitive Psychology - ✔✔study of mental processes, memory, thinking and decision-making
Developmental Psychology - ✔✔study of changes over the lifespan
Personality Psychology - ✔✔study of consistencies over time and how we get to be the way
we
are
Social Psychology - ✔✔study of how people are affected by their social environment and
interpersonal relationships
Clinical and Counseling Psychology - ✔✔study of psychological disorders, causes, treatments
and prevention
structuralism - ✔✔based on idea that conscious experience broken down into underlying
parts
functionalism - ✔✔based on idea that mind and behavior have an adaptive purpose
psychoanalysis - ✔✔therapeutic approach to bring patient's unconscious mind to awareness
Gestalt Theory - ✔✔whole of personal experience is different that the sum of its parts
culture - ✔✔the beliefs, values, rules and customs that exist within a group of people who
share
