PSYC 1300 Hornstein Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
What is Psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Scientific study of
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behavior and the mind
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Biological Factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Brain mechanisms, adaptive
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traits, genetic predispositions
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Psychological Factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Learned fears, emotional
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responses, cognitive processing
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Social-Cultural Factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Presence of others,
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group influences, societal expectations
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Psychodynamic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How behavior springs from the
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unconscious drives and conflicts
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Cognitive - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How we encode, process, store and
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retrieve information
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,Social-Cultural - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How behavior and thinking vary
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across situations and cultures
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Physiological Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Biological basis of
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human behavior, influenced by outside influences, how we alter these
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chemicals with drugs and their effects
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Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of mental aspects,
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perception, decision making, language, learning, memory, how to
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improve
Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of how we influence
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each other, first impressions, attraction, etc, why we conform to match
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someone else, why we blame others in certain events in order to feel
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better, CONFORMITY, OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY
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Personality Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of the individual
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difference between people, anxiety, sociability, self-esteem, STUDY OF
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INDIVIDUALITY
Developmental Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-NATURE VS| | | | | |
NURTURE Study of mental and physical growth throughout a lifespan,
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mainly focused on childhood because that's when people change and
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grow the most
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,Clinical & Counseling Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of how
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to help others
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Clinical - work with people who suffer from psychological disorders
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Counseling - work with people who suffer from everyday problems of
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life
Industrial & Organizational Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How we
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|interact in a workplace environment
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Historical Roots - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-More philosophical, didn't
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think about the science of it
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Wilhem Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founded first lab for
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experimental psychology |
INTROSPECTION - used to study the mind, looking inward into your own | | | | | | | | | | | |
thoughts, identifies the way people think
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Free Association Task - gives a word and respond with the first thing you
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think of
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Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Clinical approach to studying
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the mind, most controversial
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PSYCHOANALYSIS - we aren't truly aware of our own thoughts | | | | | | | | |
Believed in the power of the unconscious mind
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, Built elaborate theories with no data, didn't recognize the experimental
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science of it | |
Behaviorist Alternative - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1950-60, soft approach
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to psych, redefined psychology as study of observable behavior, focused
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on outward, disregarded every other method
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Cognitive Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of mental activity
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or intelligence, due to popularity of the computer because it gave us
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something concrete to see and talk about, 1960's renewed interest in
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mind, mental activity and conciousness
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Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-An organized set of principles that
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describes, predicts and explains some phenomenon
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Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Specific, testable prediction,
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derived from a theory | | |
Research Settings - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Lab (events are simulated,
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extreme amount of control, not natural), field settings (research in real-
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world scenarios, very realistic, can't control what happens to the
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subject), control vs. realism
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Correct Answers
What is Psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Scientific study of
| | | | | | | |
behavior and the mind
| | |
Biological Factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Brain mechanisms, adaptive
| | | | | | |
traits, genetic predispositions
| |
Psychological Factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Learned fears, emotional
| | | | | | |
responses, cognitive processing
| |
Social-Cultural Factors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Presence of others,
| | | | | | |
group influences, societal expectations
| | |
Psychodynamic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How behavior springs from the
| | | | | | | |
unconscious drives and conflicts
| | |
Cognitive - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How we encode, process, store and
| | | | | | | | |
retrieve information
|
,Social-Cultural - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How behavior and thinking vary
| | | | | | | |
across situations and cultures
| | |
Physiological Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Biological basis of
| | | | | | |
human behavior, influenced by outside influences, how we alter these
| | | | | | | | | |
chemicals with drugs and their effects
| | | | |
Cognitive Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of mental aspects,
| | | | | | | |
perception, decision making, language, learning, memory, how to
| | | | | | | |
improve
Social Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of how we influence
| | | | | | | | |
each other, first impressions, attraction, etc, why we conform to match
| | | | | | | | | | |
someone else, why we blame others in certain events in order to feel
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
better, CONFORMITY, OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY
| | | |
Personality Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of the individual
| | | | | | | |
difference between people, anxiety, sociability, self-esteem, STUDY OF
| | | | | | | |
INDIVIDUALITY
Developmental Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-NATURE VS| | | | | |
NURTURE Study of mental and physical growth throughout a lifespan,
| | | | | | | | | |
mainly focused on childhood because that's when people change and
| | | | | | | | | |
grow the most
| |
,Clinical & Counseling Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of how
| | | | | | | | |
to help others
| |
Clinical - work with people who suffer from psychological disorders
| | | | | | | | |
Counseling - work with people who suffer from everyday problems of
| | | | | | | | | | |
life
Industrial & Organizational Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-How we
| | | | | | |
|interact in a workplace environment
| | | |
Historical Roots - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-More philosophical, didn't
| | | | | | |
think about the science of it
| | | | |
Wilhem Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founded first lab for
| | | | | | | |
experimental psychology |
INTROSPECTION - used to study the mind, looking inward into your own | | | | | | | | | | | |
thoughts, identifies the way people think
| | | | |
Free Association Task - gives a word and respond with the first thing you
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
think of
| |
Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Clinical approach to studying
| | | | | | | |
the mind, most controversial
| | |
PSYCHOANALYSIS - we aren't truly aware of our own thoughts | | | | | | | | |
Believed in the power of the unconscious mind
| | | | | | |
, Built elaborate theories with no data, didn't recognize the experimental
| | | | | | | | | |
science of it | |
Behaviorist Alternative - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1950-60, soft approach
| | | | | | |
to psych, redefined psychology as study of observable behavior, focused
| | | | | | | | | |
on outward, disregarded every other method
| | | | |
Cognitive Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of mental activity
| | | | | | | |
or intelligence, due to popularity of the computer because it gave us
| | | | | | | | | | | |
something concrete to see and talk about, 1960's renewed interest in
| | | | | | | | | | |
mind, mental activity and conciousness
| | | |
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-An organized set of principles that
| | | | | | | | |
describes, predicts and explains some phenomenon
| | | | |
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Specific, testable prediction,
| | | | | |
derived from a theory | | |
Research Settings - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Lab (events are simulated,
| | | | | | | |
extreme amount of control, not natural), field settings (research in real-
| | | | | | | | | |
world scenarios, very realistic, can't control what happens to the
| | | | | | | | | |
subject), control vs. realism
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