Psychology 1000 Exam test
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Nature - ANS✅✅the inherited biological factors that shape behaviors, personality, and other
characteristics
Nurture - ANS✅✅environmental factors that shape behaviors, personality and other
characteristics
Psychology - ANS✅✅the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Behavior - ANS✅✅language, sweating, movement, facial reactions, pupil dilation
Mental Processes - ANS✅✅thinking
Psychologists - ANS✅✅scientists who study behavior and mental processes
Psychiatrist - ANS✅✅medical doctor with residency training in psychiatry who focus on treating
patients with psychological disorders' only ones who can prescribe medications
PhD - ANS✅✅clinical or counseling; research or treatment
PsyD - ANS✅✅clinical or counseling; focuses on clinical practice, dive right into therapy
Mental Health Counselor - ANS✅✅no PhD; Master's Degree; focuses on clinical practice
Clinical Psychology - ANS✅✅treats moderate to severe psychological disorders; depression,
anxiety, personality disorders
Counseling Psychology - ANS✅✅treat less severe psychological issues; marriage issue, idk what to
do with my life
,Biological/Experimental Psychology - ANS✅✅study the nervous and endocrine systems and how
they influence behavior and mental processes
Developmental Psychology - ANS✅✅physical, cognitive, social, and personality development
across the lifespan
School Psychology - ANS✅✅work with students; such as testing and issues with kids
Educational Psychology - ANS✅✅just teach
Social Psychology - ANS✅✅how other people influence our behaviors and mental processes
Personality Psychology - ANS✅✅study the psychological processes that make us all unique
Cognitive Psychology - ANS✅✅research on memory, intelligence, perception, thought processes,
problem solving, language and learning
Industrial Organizational Psychology - ANS✅✅study the relationships of people and their work
environments; try to make the work place as efficient as possible
Sports Psychology - ANS✅✅apply psychology to sports and athletic competition
Forensic Psychology - ANS✅✅apply psychological principles to courtroom and government
proceedings
Basic and Applied Research - ANS✅✅basic research- typically done in university labs to prove or
disprove theories
applied research- focuses on changing behavior or outcomes, actually helps people
Describe: Goal of Psychology - ANS✅✅describe or report what is being observed
Explain: Goal of Psychology - ANS✅✅organize and make sense of what researchers have observed
,Predict: Goal of Psychology - ANS✅✅predict behaviors or outcomes based on observed patterns
Control: Goal of Psychology - ANS✅✅offer; how can we apply the findings of psychological
research to change and direct behaviors in a beneficial way
Introspection - ANS✅✅Wundt; the examination of one's own conscious mind; 1898 Germany; he
created a lab; anything you can talk about; the Father of Psychology
Structuralism - ANS✅✅Titchener; student of Wundt; the study of the structure of the mind; he
believed that everything experience could be broken down to the emotional aspect of it
Functionalism - ANS✅✅James; really motivated and inspired by Darwin; brought it to psychology;
the function of thought processes, feelings, and behaviors and how they help is adapt to the
environment
Psychoanalytic Perspective - ANS✅✅Freud; behaviors and personality are shaped by unconscious
conflicts and early childhood experiences; the 1st perspective of psychology; 1900
Behavioral Perspective - ANS✅✅1920; the scientific study of observable behavior; behavior is
influenced by reward, punishment, and observations; the 2nd perspective of psychology
Classical Conditioning - ANS✅✅Pavlov; experiments with dogs; the amount of saliva when dogs
saw their food; dogs learned an association between random things and the amount of saliva they
produce
Behaviorism - ANS✅✅Watson and Skinner; studied observable behavior
Humanistic Perspective - ANS✅✅Rogers and Maslow; the 3rd force of psychology; created as a
more positive outlook on human behavior; human nature is more positive in nature and human
direction is toward growth
Cognitive Perspective - ANS✅✅examine the mental processes that direct behavior: memory,
intelligence, perception, thought processes, problem solving, language and learning
Evolutionary Perspective - ANS✅✅Darwin; uses knowledge about evolutionary forces: such as
natural selection to predict human behavior
, Natural Selection - ANS✅✅survival of the fittest
Biological Perspective - ANS✅✅use knowledge about physiology to explain behavior and mental
processes (the result of events in the body): hormones, heredity, brain chemicals, injury and
diseases in the brain
Sociocultural Perspective - ANS✅✅social- study of groups, social roles and roles of social actions
and relationships
cultural- norms, values, and expectations
Biopsychosocial Perspective - ANS✅✅explains behavior through the interaction between
biological, psychological, and social factors
Critical Thinking - ANS✅✅the processes of weighing decisions and coming to a conclusion
Pseudo-Psychology - ANS✅✅an approach to explain and predict behavior and events that have
appear to be psychology that have no evidence to prove it
Scientific Method - ANS✅✅the process that scientists use to conduct research
Step 1 of the Scientific Method: Develop a Question - ANS✅✅something that you want to study
and want to know more information
Step 2 of the Scientific Method: Develop a Hypothesis - ANS✅✅an educated guess, the statement
used to test predications on a study's outcome
Therories - ANS✅✅to integrate or arrange observations in order to explain a phenomenon
Step 3 of the Scientific Method: Design Study and Collect Data - ANS✅✅set up the experiment and
going through with the study
Operational Definitions - ANS✅✅lay out everything you did; the precise manner in which a
variable of interest is defined and measured
questions and answers graded A+
Nature - ANS✅✅the inherited biological factors that shape behaviors, personality, and other
characteristics
Nurture - ANS✅✅environmental factors that shape behaviors, personality and other
characteristics
Psychology - ANS✅✅the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Behavior - ANS✅✅language, sweating, movement, facial reactions, pupil dilation
Mental Processes - ANS✅✅thinking
Psychologists - ANS✅✅scientists who study behavior and mental processes
Psychiatrist - ANS✅✅medical doctor with residency training in psychiatry who focus on treating
patients with psychological disorders' only ones who can prescribe medications
PhD - ANS✅✅clinical or counseling; research or treatment
PsyD - ANS✅✅clinical or counseling; focuses on clinical practice, dive right into therapy
Mental Health Counselor - ANS✅✅no PhD; Master's Degree; focuses on clinical practice
Clinical Psychology - ANS✅✅treats moderate to severe psychological disorders; depression,
anxiety, personality disorders
Counseling Psychology - ANS✅✅treat less severe psychological issues; marriage issue, idk what to
do with my life
,Biological/Experimental Psychology - ANS✅✅study the nervous and endocrine systems and how
they influence behavior and mental processes
Developmental Psychology - ANS✅✅physical, cognitive, social, and personality development
across the lifespan
School Psychology - ANS✅✅work with students; such as testing and issues with kids
Educational Psychology - ANS✅✅just teach
Social Psychology - ANS✅✅how other people influence our behaviors and mental processes
Personality Psychology - ANS✅✅study the psychological processes that make us all unique
Cognitive Psychology - ANS✅✅research on memory, intelligence, perception, thought processes,
problem solving, language and learning
Industrial Organizational Psychology - ANS✅✅study the relationships of people and their work
environments; try to make the work place as efficient as possible
Sports Psychology - ANS✅✅apply psychology to sports and athletic competition
Forensic Psychology - ANS✅✅apply psychological principles to courtroom and government
proceedings
Basic and Applied Research - ANS✅✅basic research- typically done in university labs to prove or
disprove theories
applied research- focuses on changing behavior or outcomes, actually helps people
Describe: Goal of Psychology - ANS✅✅describe or report what is being observed
Explain: Goal of Psychology - ANS✅✅organize and make sense of what researchers have observed
,Predict: Goal of Psychology - ANS✅✅predict behaviors or outcomes based on observed patterns
Control: Goal of Psychology - ANS✅✅offer; how can we apply the findings of psychological
research to change and direct behaviors in a beneficial way
Introspection - ANS✅✅Wundt; the examination of one's own conscious mind; 1898 Germany; he
created a lab; anything you can talk about; the Father of Psychology
Structuralism - ANS✅✅Titchener; student of Wundt; the study of the structure of the mind; he
believed that everything experience could be broken down to the emotional aspect of it
Functionalism - ANS✅✅James; really motivated and inspired by Darwin; brought it to psychology;
the function of thought processes, feelings, and behaviors and how they help is adapt to the
environment
Psychoanalytic Perspective - ANS✅✅Freud; behaviors and personality are shaped by unconscious
conflicts and early childhood experiences; the 1st perspective of psychology; 1900
Behavioral Perspective - ANS✅✅1920; the scientific study of observable behavior; behavior is
influenced by reward, punishment, and observations; the 2nd perspective of psychology
Classical Conditioning - ANS✅✅Pavlov; experiments with dogs; the amount of saliva when dogs
saw their food; dogs learned an association between random things and the amount of saliva they
produce
Behaviorism - ANS✅✅Watson and Skinner; studied observable behavior
Humanistic Perspective - ANS✅✅Rogers and Maslow; the 3rd force of psychology; created as a
more positive outlook on human behavior; human nature is more positive in nature and human
direction is toward growth
Cognitive Perspective - ANS✅✅examine the mental processes that direct behavior: memory,
intelligence, perception, thought processes, problem solving, language and learning
Evolutionary Perspective - ANS✅✅Darwin; uses knowledge about evolutionary forces: such as
natural selection to predict human behavior
, Natural Selection - ANS✅✅survival of the fittest
Biological Perspective - ANS✅✅use knowledge about physiology to explain behavior and mental
processes (the result of events in the body): hormones, heredity, brain chemicals, injury and
diseases in the brain
Sociocultural Perspective - ANS✅✅social- study of groups, social roles and roles of social actions
and relationships
cultural- norms, values, and expectations
Biopsychosocial Perspective - ANS✅✅explains behavior through the interaction between
biological, psychological, and social factors
Critical Thinking - ANS✅✅the processes of weighing decisions and coming to a conclusion
Pseudo-Psychology - ANS✅✅an approach to explain and predict behavior and events that have
appear to be psychology that have no evidence to prove it
Scientific Method - ANS✅✅the process that scientists use to conduct research
Step 1 of the Scientific Method: Develop a Question - ANS✅✅something that you want to study
and want to know more information
Step 2 of the Scientific Method: Develop a Hypothesis - ANS✅✅an educated guess, the statement
used to test predications on a study's outcome
Therories - ANS✅✅to integrate or arrange observations in order to explain a phenomenon
Step 3 of the Scientific Method: Design Study and Collect Data - ANS✅✅set up the experiment and
going through with the study
Operational Definitions - ANS✅✅lay out everything you did; the precise manner in which a
variable of interest is defined and measured
