Psychology Exam questions and
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Psychology definition - ANS✅✅the systematic, scientific study of behaviors and mental processes
Behaviour definition - ANS✅✅any observable action made from a living organism
Levels of Explanation of Behaviour - ANS✅✅1. The biological Level
2. The basic processing level
3. The person Level
4. The socio-cultural level
Biological level - ANS✅✅causality of biological and chemical processes to behaviour. Ex: Role
played by hormones with aggression and parts of brain associated with aggression.
Basic Processing level - ANS✅✅psychological universal processes. Ex: Understanding thoughts and
feeling frequently observed just before someone behaves aggressively.
Person Level - ANS✅✅Individual differences in behaviour. Ex: different ways aggression is
displayed through different personalities.
Socio-cultural level - ANS✅✅Influence that other people/environments have on behaviour by
studying social and cultural contexts. Ex: Onlookers of aggression behaviour in terms of different
types of aggression and culture.
Psychologist vs. Psychiatrist - ANS✅✅psychologist: are unable to prescribe medicine. Can work
private, company, all ages. Counselling, therapies to assist client
psychiatrist: can write prescriptions. medical procedures, forcefully admit to hospital, 13 years until,
from a medical standpoint
Types of Psychologists - ANS✅✅1. Clinical Psychologist- diagnosis, prevention, treatment
2. Academic Psychologist- Research and teaching
, 3. Clinical neuropsychologist- Brain damages, thinking, emotion, behaviour.
4. Community Psychologist- community issues, reaching goals, homeless
5. Counselling Psychologist- all ages, personal/relationship problems. not as serious
6. Forensic Psychologist- legal, correctional services, court of law (child abuse), eligible for parole or
release.
7. Health Psychologist
8. Organisational Psychologist- work effectively in work environment, staff recruitment, individual,
team or whole company
9. Sport Psychologist- Professional achieve peak performance
10. Research Psychologist- On behalf of private or public sectors undertake research.
commonsense Psychology - ANS✅✅collect information informally or non-scientifically which leads
to inaccurate conclusions.
People collect evidence that tends to support their own beliefs, Researcher Bias.
empirical evidence - ANS✅✅scientific evidence collected directly through observation or
experimentation
Replication - ANS✅✅repeating a study to establish whether or not the results can be duplicated,
therefore, if it is reliable or able to be generalised.
Pseudoscience - ANS✅✅a collection of beliefs mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific
method Ex: Astrology- effects of heavenly body movements on behaviour
psychic abilities - ANS✅✅Extrasensory Perception (ESP)-
1. Telepathy, mentally communicating
2. Clairvoyance, perceive psychical objects in the past or future
3. Precognition, Know events that will occur in the future
Barnum Effect - ANS✅✅Willingness to accept descriptions of ourselves from palm readers,
psychics, tarot card readers,
Tendency to believe a prediction of the future is true if stated in a vague or general way.
answers graded A+
Psychology definition - ANS✅✅the systematic, scientific study of behaviors and mental processes
Behaviour definition - ANS✅✅any observable action made from a living organism
Levels of Explanation of Behaviour - ANS✅✅1. The biological Level
2. The basic processing level
3. The person Level
4. The socio-cultural level
Biological level - ANS✅✅causality of biological and chemical processes to behaviour. Ex: Role
played by hormones with aggression and parts of brain associated with aggression.
Basic Processing level - ANS✅✅psychological universal processes. Ex: Understanding thoughts and
feeling frequently observed just before someone behaves aggressively.
Person Level - ANS✅✅Individual differences in behaviour. Ex: different ways aggression is
displayed through different personalities.
Socio-cultural level - ANS✅✅Influence that other people/environments have on behaviour by
studying social and cultural contexts. Ex: Onlookers of aggression behaviour in terms of different
types of aggression and culture.
Psychologist vs. Psychiatrist - ANS✅✅psychologist: are unable to prescribe medicine. Can work
private, company, all ages. Counselling, therapies to assist client
psychiatrist: can write prescriptions. medical procedures, forcefully admit to hospital, 13 years until,
from a medical standpoint
Types of Psychologists - ANS✅✅1. Clinical Psychologist- diagnosis, prevention, treatment
2. Academic Psychologist- Research and teaching
, 3. Clinical neuropsychologist- Brain damages, thinking, emotion, behaviour.
4. Community Psychologist- community issues, reaching goals, homeless
5. Counselling Psychologist- all ages, personal/relationship problems. not as serious
6. Forensic Psychologist- legal, correctional services, court of law (child abuse), eligible for parole or
release.
7. Health Psychologist
8. Organisational Psychologist- work effectively in work environment, staff recruitment, individual,
team or whole company
9. Sport Psychologist- Professional achieve peak performance
10. Research Psychologist- On behalf of private or public sectors undertake research.
commonsense Psychology - ANS✅✅collect information informally or non-scientifically which leads
to inaccurate conclusions.
People collect evidence that tends to support their own beliefs, Researcher Bias.
empirical evidence - ANS✅✅scientific evidence collected directly through observation or
experimentation
Replication - ANS✅✅repeating a study to establish whether or not the results can be duplicated,
therefore, if it is reliable or able to be generalised.
Pseudoscience - ANS✅✅a collection of beliefs mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific
method Ex: Astrology- effects of heavenly body movements on behaviour
psychic abilities - ANS✅✅Extrasensory Perception (ESP)-
1. Telepathy, mentally communicating
2. Clairvoyance, perceive psychical objects in the past or future
3. Precognition, Know events that will occur in the future
Barnum Effect - ANS✅✅Willingness to accept descriptions of ourselves from palm readers,
psychics, tarot card readers,
Tendency to believe a prediction of the future is true if stated in a vague or general way.
