Psychology Final Exam Review
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Physiological - ✔✔Having to do with an organism's physical processes.
Cognitive - ✔✔Having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding
Psychology - ✔✔The scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific
research
Hypothesis - ✔✔An assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through
scientific study.
Theory - ✔✔A set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific
study.
Basic Science - ✔✔The pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake.
Applied Science - ✔✔Discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical
goals.
Scientific Method - ✔✔A general approach to gathering information and answering
questions so that errors are minimized.
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, Nicolaus Copernicus - ✔✔Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the
solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
He started "observation."
Galileo Galilei - ✔✔Italian astronomer and mathematician who first built the telescope
and proved that planets and moons moved. Persecuted for supporting Copernicus'
ideas.
He started "experimentation."
Dualism - ✔✔Mind and body are separate and distinct.
Rene Descartes - ✔✔French philosopher and mathematician who argued against
Dualism.
Wilhelm Wundt - ✔✔german physiologist who founded psychology as a formal
science.
"Father of Psychology"
Opened first psychology research laboratory in 1879.
Focused on the structure of the mind, developed introspection (self-observation) to
collect information about the mind.
Structuralist - ✔✔Linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or
discourse.
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Physiological - ✔✔Having to do with an organism's physical processes.
Cognitive - ✔✔Having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding
Psychology - ✔✔The scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific
research
Hypothesis - ✔✔An assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through
scientific study.
Theory - ✔✔A set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific
study.
Basic Science - ✔✔The pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake.
Applied Science - ✔✔Discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical
goals.
Scientific Method - ✔✔A general approach to gathering information and answering
questions so that errors are minimized.
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, Nicolaus Copernicus - ✔✔Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the
solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
He started "observation."
Galileo Galilei - ✔✔Italian astronomer and mathematician who first built the telescope
and proved that planets and moons moved. Persecuted for supporting Copernicus'
ideas.
He started "experimentation."
Dualism - ✔✔Mind and body are separate and distinct.
Rene Descartes - ✔✔French philosopher and mathematician who argued against
Dualism.
Wilhelm Wundt - ✔✔german physiologist who founded psychology as a formal
science.
"Father of Psychology"
Opened first psychology research laboratory in 1879.
Focused on the structure of the mind, developed introspection (self-observation) to
collect information about the mind.
Structuralist - ✔✔Linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or
discourse.
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