Psychology First Exam Questions and
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Psychology - ✔✔The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Behavior - ✔✔All outward or overt actions and reactions.
Mental Processes - ✔✔Internal, covert activity of the mind.
Four Goals of Psychology - ✔✔Description [what is happening?], Understanding [why
is it happening?], Prediction [when will it happen again?], Control [how can it be
changed?]
Willhelm Wundt - ✔✔The "father of psychology", a physiologist, who attempted to
apply scientific principles to the study of the human mind.
objective introspection - ✔✔the process of examining and measuring one's own
thoughts and mental activities
Edward Titchener - ✔✔A student of Wundt and created structuralism.
structuralism - ✔✔Focus of the study is the structure or basic elements of the mind.
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, William James - ✔✔Discovered functionalism.
functionalism - ✔✔The focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live,
work and play. Influenced the modern fields of educational, evolutionary and
industrial/organizational psychology.
Gestalt Psychology - ✔✔Started with Wirtheimer, the "good figure" psychology. Now
part of cognitive psychology and not only focuses on perception but learning, memory,
thought processes and problem solving.
Psychoanalysis - ✔✔Theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud.
Believed that nervous disorders were caused by suppressed urges and that early
childhood experiences were significant.
John B. Watson - ✔✔Proposed behaviorism, "the science of behavior" that focuses on
observable behavior.
humanistic perspective - ✔✔People have free will, the freedom to choose their own
destiny.
correlation - ✔✔a measure of the relationship between two variables
independent variable - ✔✔Variable in the experiment that is manipulated.
dependent variable - ✔✔Variable in an experiment that represents measurable response
or behavior of the subjects in the experiment.
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Psychology - ✔✔The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Behavior - ✔✔All outward or overt actions and reactions.
Mental Processes - ✔✔Internal, covert activity of the mind.
Four Goals of Psychology - ✔✔Description [what is happening?], Understanding [why
is it happening?], Prediction [when will it happen again?], Control [how can it be
changed?]
Willhelm Wundt - ✔✔The "father of psychology", a physiologist, who attempted to
apply scientific principles to the study of the human mind.
objective introspection - ✔✔the process of examining and measuring one's own
thoughts and mental activities
Edward Titchener - ✔✔A student of Wundt and created structuralism.
structuralism - ✔✔Focus of the study is the structure or basic elements of the mind.
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, William James - ✔✔Discovered functionalism.
functionalism - ✔✔The focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live,
work and play. Influenced the modern fields of educational, evolutionary and
industrial/organizational psychology.
Gestalt Psychology - ✔✔Started with Wirtheimer, the "good figure" psychology. Now
part of cognitive psychology and not only focuses on perception but learning, memory,
thought processes and problem solving.
Psychoanalysis - ✔✔Theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud.
Believed that nervous disorders were caused by suppressed urges and that early
childhood experiences were significant.
John B. Watson - ✔✔Proposed behaviorism, "the science of behavior" that focuses on
observable behavior.
humanistic perspective - ✔✔People have free will, the freedom to choose their own
destiny.
correlation - ✔✔a measure of the relationship between two variables
independent variable - ✔✔Variable in the experiment that is manipulated.
dependent variable - ✔✔Variable in an experiment that represents measurable response
or behavior of the subjects in the experiment.
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