PL100 WPR 1 questions with answers graded A+ 2023/2024

PL100 WPR 1 Psychodynamic perspective - correct answer Searches for the causes of behavior within the inner workings of our personality emphisizing the role of unconscious processes. Behavioral perspective - correct answer Focuses on the role of the external enviroment in governing our actions. Cognative behaviorism - correct answer Proposes that learning experiences and enviroment influence our expectations and thoughts, and thus how we behave. Humanism - correct answer Emphisizes free will, personal growth, and the attemps to find meaning in one's existance. Cognative - correct answer Examines the nature of the mind and how mental processes influence behavior. Sociocultural - correct answer Examines how the social enviroment and cultural learning influence our thoughts and behavior. Biological - correct answer Examines how brain processes and other bodily functions regulate behavior. 4 goals of psychology - correct answer 1. Describe how people think, behave, and feel. 2. Explain why people act as they do. 3. Psychologists exert control by designing experiments to test whether their proposed explanations are accurate. 4. Psychologists apply psychological knowledge in ways that enhance human performance. Wilhelm Wund - correct answer Established the first experimental phychological labratory in Germany. He believed the mind could be studied by breaking it down into its basic components.