PSY2012 - Chapter 1,2 and 4 – MDC (100% correct answers)

Psychology correct answers Scientific study of behavior and mental processes Four Main Goals of Psychology correct answers Describe, Explain, Predict, Change Willhelm Wundt correct answers "Father of Psychology" - Established the first Psychological Laboratory . Their chief mythology was termed "introspection" Introspection correct answers Self monitoring and reporting on conscious experiences - A method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings Structuralism correct answers Sought to identify the basic building blocks or structures of mental life through introspection and then to determine how these elements combine to form the whole of experience Functionalism correct answers Studied how the mind functions to enable humans and other animals to adapt to their environment Psychoanalysis correct answers Freud's theory of personality that attributes a therapeutic approach that focuses on bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness to better understand psychological disorders. William James correct answers founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment. He broadened psychology to include animal behavior and biological processes. Kenneth and Phipps Clark correct answers Process of Scientific Method correct answers Observation, Hypothesis, Experiment, Conclusion theory SQ4R method correct answers Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Relate, Review Fraternal Twins correct answers twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes Identical Twins correct answers twins who develop from a single fertilized egg that splits in two, creating two genetically identical organisms Natural Selection correct answers Process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest