LSU PSYC 2000 Final Exam Questions and
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Wundt - ✔✔-father of modern psychology
-developed the technique of object introspection
-believed consequences could be broken into thought, experiences, emotions, and other
basic elements
Titchener - ✔✔-brought psychology in the form of structuralism to America
James - ✔✔-functionalism
-"Principles of Psychology"
-"stream of consciousness"
Watson - ✔✔-disagreed with structuralism
-associated with behaviorism
-believed behavior is a result from a stimulus
psychologists - ✔✔-academic degrees and can do counseling, teaching, research, and
may specialize in any large area of psychology
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,psychiatrists - ✔✔-medical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for a person
with a mental disorder
are all psychologists therapists? - ✔✔No
do all therapists have doctoral degrees? - ✔✔No
what does it mean to say something is "correlated" with something else? - ✔✔-statistical
technique that allows researchers to discover and predict relationships between
variables of interest
-positive correlations exist when increases in one variable are matched by increases in
the other variable
-cannot be used to prove cause & effect relationships
what special kind of conclusion can we make based on an experiment that we can't
make with other types of research designs? - ✔✔-experiments are tightly controlled
manipulations of variables that allows researchers to determine cause & effect
relationships
-this proves causation bc you can control one of the groups and use the other group as
comparison
dependent variable - ✔✔measured behavior or the response of participants
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, independent variable - ✔✔the variable that is deliberately manipulated by the
experimenter to see if related changes occur in the behavior or the responses of the
participants and is given to the experimental group
random assignment - ✔✔-helps control for individual differences both within and
between the groups that might otherwise interfere with the experiments
control groups - ✔✔-receives either a placebo treatment or nothing
main function of hippocampus - ✔✔-part of the brain responsible for the formation of
long-term declarative memories
main function of hypothalamus - ✔✔-controls hunger, thirst, sexual behavior, sleeping
and waking, and emotions
-controls pituitary gland
main function of thalamus - ✔✔-relay station that sends sensory information to the
proper areas of the cortex
main function of amygdala - ✔✔-controls our fear responses and memory in fearful
stimuli
main function of cerebellum - ✔✔-coordinates fine, rapid motor movement, learned
reflexes, posture and muscle tone
-involved in some cognitive and emotional functions
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Answers 100% Pass
Wundt - ✔✔-father of modern psychology
-developed the technique of object introspection
-believed consequences could be broken into thought, experiences, emotions, and other
basic elements
Titchener - ✔✔-brought psychology in the form of structuralism to America
James - ✔✔-functionalism
-"Principles of Psychology"
-"stream of consciousness"
Watson - ✔✔-disagreed with structuralism
-associated with behaviorism
-believed behavior is a result from a stimulus
psychologists - ✔✔-academic degrees and can do counseling, teaching, research, and
may specialize in any large area of psychology
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,psychiatrists - ✔✔-medical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for a person
with a mental disorder
are all psychologists therapists? - ✔✔No
do all therapists have doctoral degrees? - ✔✔No
what does it mean to say something is "correlated" with something else? - ✔✔-statistical
technique that allows researchers to discover and predict relationships between
variables of interest
-positive correlations exist when increases in one variable are matched by increases in
the other variable
-cannot be used to prove cause & effect relationships
what special kind of conclusion can we make based on an experiment that we can't
make with other types of research designs? - ✔✔-experiments are tightly controlled
manipulations of variables that allows researchers to determine cause & effect
relationships
-this proves causation bc you can control one of the groups and use the other group as
comparison
dependent variable - ✔✔measured behavior or the response of participants
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, independent variable - ✔✔the variable that is deliberately manipulated by the
experimenter to see if related changes occur in the behavior or the responses of the
participants and is given to the experimental group
random assignment - ✔✔-helps control for individual differences both within and
between the groups that might otherwise interfere with the experiments
control groups - ✔✔-receives either a placebo treatment or nothing
main function of hippocampus - ✔✔-part of the brain responsible for the formation of
long-term declarative memories
main function of hypothalamus - ✔✔-controls hunger, thirst, sexual behavior, sleeping
and waking, and emotions
-controls pituitary gland
main function of thalamus - ✔✔-relay station that sends sensory information to the
proper areas of the cortex
main function of amygdala - ✔✔-controls our fear responses and memory in fearful
stimuli
main function of cerebellum - ✔✔-coordinates fine, rapid motor movement, learned
reflexes, posture and muscle tone
-involved in some cognitive and emotional functions
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