PSY 121 EXAM 1 UNCG questions well
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the science of human behavior and mental processes - correct answer ✔✔Psychology
Observable behavior, and mental processes - correct answer ✔✔What do Psychologists study?
teaching, researching, consulting, and counseling. - correct answer ✔✔What kinds of
settings/jobs do psychologists work in?
Usually work at universities, Some at hospitals/clinics, Produce research on behavior - correct
answer ✔✔Experimental Psychologist:
Corporations, hospitals, clinics, Practical problem solving, Provide services to the public - correct
answer ✔✔Applied Psychologist
-Neuroscience: Brain research
-Cognitive: Learning, thinking, memory, and mind
-Behavioral: Reward and punishment, animal behavior, learning
-Developmental: Change across lifespan, kids, aging
-Social and Personality: Personality, attitudes/beliefs, love, prejudice - correct answer ✔✔List
some branches of Psychology
Behavioral, sociocultural, cognitive, and biological perspectives - correct answer ✔✔Four Major
Research perspectives
, -NOT Philosophy: Rational thinking about the world
-NOT Psychiatry: Medical science of brain disorders
-NOT Sociology: Study of societies and groups - correct answer ✔✔Psychology is NOT
emphasizes the conditioning of our behavior - correct answer ✔✔behavioral
emphasizes the influence of the external environment, impact of other people on self - correct
answer ✔✔sociocultural
how mental processes such as perception and memory work - correct answer ✔✔cognitive
how our physiological (brain and nervous system) produces our behavior - correct answer
✔✔biological
She was murdered in front of 38 bystanders who did not phone the police this is now referred
to the ''bystander effect'' - correct answer ✔✔Kitty Genovese
the tendency- after learning about an outcome, to be overconfident in ones ability to have
''predicted'' it. - correct answer ✔✔hindsight bias
behavior is researched in a natural setting ex. from book: gorillas - correct answer
✔✔naturalistic observation
the observer becomes a part of the group being observed - correct answer ✔✔participant
observation
a researcher researches an individual in depth over a long period of time - correct answer
✔✔case study
answers already passed
the science of human behavior and mental processes - correct answer ✔✔Psychology
Observable behavior, and mental processes - correct answer ✔✔What do Psychologists study?
teaching, researching, consulting, and counseling. - correct answer ✔✔What kinds of
settings/jobs do psychologists work in?
Usually work at universities, Some at hospitals/clinics, Produce research on behavior - correct
answer ✔✔Experimental Psychologist:
Corporations, hospitals, clinics, Practical problem solving, Provide services to the public - correct
answer ✔✔Applied Psychologist
-Neuroscience: Brain research
-Cognitive: Learning, thinking, memory, and mind
-Behavioral: Reward and punishment, animal behavior, learning
-Developmental: Change across lifespan, kids, aging
-Social and Personality: Personality, attitudes/beliefs, love, prejudice - correct answer ✔✔List
some branches of Psychology
Behavioral, sociocultural, cognitive, and biological perspectives - correct answer ✔✔Four Major
Research perspectives
, -NOT Philosophy: Rational thinking about the world
-NOT Psychiatry: Medical science of brain disorders
-NOT Sociology: Study of societies and groups - correct answer ✔✔Psychology is NOT
emphasizes the conditioning of our behavior - correct answer ✔✔behavioral
emphasizes the influence of the external environment, impact of other people on self - correct
answer ✔✔sociocultural
how mental processes such as perception and memory work - correct answer ✔✔cognitive
how our physiological (brain and nervous system) produces our behavior - correct answer
✔✔biological
She was murdered in front of 38 bystanders who did not phone the police this is now referred
to the ''bystander effect'' - correct answer ✔✔Kitty Genovese
the tendency- after learning about an outcome, to be overconfident in ones ability to have
''predicted'' it. - correct answer ✔✔hindsight bias
behavior is researched in a natural setting ex. from book: gorillas - correct answer
✔✔naturalistic observation
the observer becomes a part of the group being observed - correct answer ✔✔participant
observation
a researcher researches an individual in depth over a long period of time - correct answer
✔✔case study
