Psych 111 - Exam 1 questions with answers

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What is psychology? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The scientific
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investigation of mental processes and behavior |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




What does psychology reflect the influences of? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔• Biological processes |\ |\ |\




• Individual differences (gender, pain)
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• Time and culture (we continue to learn more)
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What are the four goals of psychology? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔• Describe how people and animals behave
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• Understand and explain the causes of behavior
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• Predict behaviors/reactions across situations
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• Control behavior through understanding its causes and
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consequences
|\ Bullying: empathy training early
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What did Flourens and Broca do? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔•
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Linked mind and behavior
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• Showed that damage to the brain can result in impariments of
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behavior and mental function |\ |\ |\

,What did Wilhelm Wundt establish? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔•
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The first psychological lab in Leipzig, Germany
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• Taught first class in psych
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What did Wundt study? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔• Consciousness
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• Structuralism
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What is consciousness? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔• A person's
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subjective experience of the world and mind
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What is structuralism? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔• The
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relationship between the basic elements that constitute the mind
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• Introspection: Subjective observation of one's own
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experience/feelings
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• Structure of mental processes
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- Elements of consciousness/moments of consciousness
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What did Titchener do? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔• Brought
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Structuralism to the US |\ |\ |\




• Relied on the identification of the basic elements
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What did William James do? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔• Built on
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the principles of introspection and the study of conscious
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experiences, but focuses on WHY and the adaptive reasons for
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what and how we perceive the real world
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• Natural selection
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• Functionalism
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,What is functionalism? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔• The study of
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the function or purpose conscious mental processes serve in
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enabling people to adapt to their environment
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• We can't divide our memory that well but we think we can
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Who do many psychologists focus on for studies? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Patients with psychological disorders to understand
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human behavior
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Who influenced the Psychoanalytic perspective? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Sigmund Freud |\ |\




What is the psychoanalytic perspective? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔• Identified the role of unconscious forces that determine
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thoughts, feelings and behavior |\ |\ |\




• Personality is dependent on early life experiences
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• Drives and motivations conflict leading to compromises
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(defense mechanisms, symptoms) |\ |\




• Focus on sexual and aggressive impulses
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What is the theory behind the psychoanalytic perspective? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔• Unconscious mental processes shape
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feelings, thoughts, and behaviors |\ |\ |\




• They would make us uncomfortable if we knew them
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, What is a Freudian Slip? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔• Elements of
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unconscious processing according to this perspective|\ |\ |\ |\ |\




• Supposed to be unconscious but it comes out into the
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• We are not in charge of our unconscious
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What is the Humanistic perspective? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔•
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Said psychoanalytic perspective is too pessimistic
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• Stresses positive potential of all humans
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• Believes in free will
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• Posits and inherit drive to develop and reach full potential
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What is the behaviorist perspective? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔•
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Focus on observable behavioral responses
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• Doesn't study mental life at all
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• Emphasizes the environmental impact on a person's actions
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• Predict and control behavior in ways that benefit society
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Who created the behaviorist perspective? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Watson


Who did classical conditioning/what is it? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔• Pavlov and Watson
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• Associative learning pairing stimuli and response
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• Footsteps make dogs drool
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