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1. What is Psychology? - ANSWER ✔✔The scientific study of

behavior and mental processes(Hard vs. Soft science)

-focuses on critical thinking (not just negative) and is scientific


1. Pseudopsychologies - ANSWER ✔✔unreliable approaches that do

not use the scientific method

-astrology, palmistry, psychokinesis, follicology


1.Psychology's Four Goals - ANSWER ✔✔1. Description: tells" what

occurred"

2. Explanation: tells "why" a behavior or mental process occurred

,3. Prediction: identifies conditions "under which a future behavior or

mental process is likely to occur"

4.Change: applies psychological knowledge to prevent unwanted or to

bring about desired goals


1.Types of Psychology - ANSWER ✔✔-biopsychology/ neuroscience


-clinical and counseling psychology

-cognitive psychology

- developmental psychology

education and school psychology

experimental psychology

-forensic psychology

-gender/ cultural psychology

-health psychology

-industrial/organizational psychology

-social psychology


1.what represents the largest group of Psychology? - ANSWER

✔✔Clinical psychology


1.origins of psychology - ANSWER ✔✔wilhelm wundt

,structuralism

functionalism

psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic perspective


1. Wilhelm Wundt - ANSWER ✔✔"father of psychology" Leipzig,

Germany 1879


1.Structuralism - ANSWER ✔✔sought to identify the basic building

blocks, or structures, of the mind through introspection (Wundt and

Titchener)

focused on sensations and perceptual experiences


1. Functionalism - ANSWER ✔✔studied how the mind functions to

adapt organisms to their environment (William James)


1. Psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic perspective - ANSWER

✔✔unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts (freud was the

founder)


1.Recent schools of thought - ANSWER ✔✔-behavioral perspective


- humanist perspective

-cognitive perspective



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, -neuroscience/ biopychology perspective


1. Behavioral perspective - ANSWER ✔✔objective, observable

environmental influence on overt behavior (Watson, Pavlov, Skinner)


1. Humanist perspective - ANSWER ✔✔free will, self-actualization,

and a positive, growth-seeking human nature (Rogers and Maslow)

-inner-self and the importance of subjective feelilngs


1.Cognitive perspective - ANSWER ✔✔thought, perception, and

information processing.


1. Neuroscience/ Biopsychology perspective - ANSWER ✔✔genetics

and other biological processes in the brain and other parts of the

nervous system


1. Brain Differences - ANSWER ✔✔difference between men and

women is quite small.


1. Evolutionary - ANSWER ✔✔natural selection, adaptation, and

evolution


1. Sociocultural - ANSWER ✔✔social interaction and cultural

determinants "sociobiology"

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