PY 101 Exam #1
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer ✔1879: established the first lab for the study
of psychology
Structuralism - correct answer ✔Analyze consciousness into basic elements
Introspection - correct answer ✔Careful, systematic observations of one's
own conscious experience
Functionalism - correct answer ✔Investigate function and consciousness
Sigmund Freud - correct answer ✔Founded Psychoanalytic School of
Thought
Emphasis on unconscious processes influencing behavior
Cognition - correct answer ✔Mental processes involved in acquiring
knowledge
Psychology - correct answer ✔The science that studies behavior and the
psychological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and it is the profession
that applies the accumulated knowledge is this science to practical problems
Experiment - correct answer ✔Manipulation of one variable under controlled
conditions so that resulting changes in another variable can be observed
Independent variable - correct answer ✔Variable manipulated
, Dependent variable - correct answer ✔Variable affected by manipulation
Epidemiology - correct answer ✔The study of the frequency and distribution
of a disorder in a population
Third Variable Problem - correct answer ✔The correlation may have been
produced by a third, unforeseen factor
External Validity - correct answer ✔The extent to which the results of
research can be generalized beyond the immediate experiment
Terminal button - correct answer ✔End of axon; secretes neurotransmitters
Neurotransmitters - correct answer ✔Chemical messengers
Synapse - correct answer ✔Point at which neutrons interconnect
Central Nervous System - correct answer ✔Brain and spinal cord
Hindbrain - correct answer ✔Vital functions
Midbrain - correct answer ✔Sensory functions
Forebrain - correct answer ✔Emotion, complex through-thalamus
Cerebral Hemisphere - correct answer ✔Two halves
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer ✔1879: established the first lab for the study
of psychology
Structuralism - correct answer ✔Analyze consciousness into basic elements
Introspection - correct answer ✔Careful, systematic observations of one's
own conscious experience
Functionalism - correct answer ✔Investigate function and consciousness
Sigmund Freud - correct answer ✔Founded Psychoanalytic School of
Thought
Emphasis on unconscious processes influencing behavior
Cognition - correct answer ✔Mental processes involved in acquiring
knowledge
Psychology - correct answer ✔The science that studies behavior and the
psychological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and it is the profession
that applies the accumulated knowledge is this science to practical problems
Experiment - correct answer ✔Manipulation of one variable under controlled
conditions so that resulting changes in another variable can be observed
Independent variable - correct answer ✔Variable manipulated
, Dependent variable - correct answer ✔Variable affected by manipulation
Epidemiology - correct answer ✔The study of the frequency and distribution
of a disorder in a population
Third Variable Problem - correct answer ✔The correlation may have been
produced by a third, unforeseen factor
External Validity - correct answer ✔The extent to which the results of
research can be generalized beyond the immediate experiment
Terminal button - correct answer ✔End of axon; secretes neurotransmitters
Neurotransmitters - correct answer ✔Chemical messengers
Synapse - correct answer ✔Point at which neutrons interconnect
Central Nervous System - correct answer ✔Brain and spinal cord
Hindbrain - correct answer ✔Vital functions
Midbrain - correct answer ✔Sensory functions
Forebrain - correct answer ✔Emotion, complex through-thalamus
Cerebral Hemisphere - correct answer ✔Two halves
