Psychology 201 Exam 1 Review Questions With Correct Answers

Psychology 201 Exam 1 Review
Questions With Correct Answers


psycholgy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-science of behavior and mental
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processes


Willhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founder of psychology, used
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scientific methods to study psychological processes (reaction times),
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wrote principles of physiological psychology, university of Leipzig
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Edward B. Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-structuralism (first major
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school of thought in psychology), cornell university, used process of
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introspection, most women completed phd's under his direction
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introspection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-unreliable, cannot study animals,
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|complex topics cannot be investigated
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William James - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-functionalism, Harvard,
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adaptation of environmental changes, wrote principles of psychology
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and talks to teachers, professor of Mary Calkins, G. Stanley Hall, and
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Margaret Washburn |

,functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-study of adaptive and practical
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functions of human behavior | | |




Charles Darwin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-wrote origin of species, idea of
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evolution, naturalist |




G. Stanley Hall - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-student of William James,
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opened first psychology lab in the US, founded APA was 1st president,
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1st president of Clark University, 1st PHD in psychology, Johns Hopkins
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University, American Journal of Psychology | | | |




Mary Whiton Calkins - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-student of William James,
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not allowed to receive PHD from Harvard due to rules and womens
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rights issues, established a lab at Wellesley College, 1st woman
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president of APA, wrote introduction to psychology
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Margaret Floy Washburn - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-student of William
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James, first US woman to earn PHD, 2nd female president of APA, wrote
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the animal mind, Cornell University
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Francis C. Sumner - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-student of G. Stanley Hall,
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first black to earn PHD in psychology, Howard University
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Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-psychoanalysis: unconcious
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, who was Freud's biographer? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Ernest Jones
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John B. Watson - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-behaviorism, overt observable
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behavior, learning, behavior of humans
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Ivan Pavlov - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Russian, dogs association with
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neutral stimulus such as bell and food triggering salivation
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B.F. Skinner - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-reinforcement and punishment
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with rats and pigeons
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Behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-school of psychology that
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emphasizes the study of observable behaviors, especially with learning
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learning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-how behavior is acquired and
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modified in response to environmental influences
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Carl Rogers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-humanistic psychology, emphasized
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self-determination, free will, and importance of choice
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Abraham Maslow - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-humanistic psychology,
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theory of motivation, importance of psychological growth
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