psyc 1001 LSU- exam one Questions
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Psychology is the scientific study of: - ✔✔behavior and mental processes
Four goals of Psychology: - ✔✔Description, Explanation , Prediction, Control
description: - ✔✔What is happening?
Observing a behavior and noting everything about it
explanation: - ✔✔Why is it happening?
Based on our observations, we attempt to understand why that is happening.
prediction: - ✔✔When will it happen again?
Talking about the future
control: - ✔✔How can it be changed?
Changing an undesirable behavior to a desirable
_______ is considered the father of psychology - ✔✔Wilhem Wundt
what was wilhem wundt's philosophy? - ✔✔objective introspective
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, Titchener's viewpoint was - ✔✔structuralism
explain structuralism - ✔✔Focused on the structure or basic elements of the mind.
Every experience could be broken down into sub-components.
first woman to receive her degree in psychology was - ✔✔Margaret Washburn
explain functionalism - ✔✔how the mind allows people to function in the real world.
"When you are thinking about what you are thinking about, you are no longer thinking
about what you were originally thinking about"
_________ published a book about functionalism called, Principles of Psychology. -
✔✔william james
denied Ph.D. because she was a woman - ✔✔Mary Whiton Calkin
was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology. studied the negative
effects of segregation on children - ✔✔Francis Cecil Sumner
the whole is greater than the sum of its parts - ✔✔Gestalt's theory
studied disorders of the nervous system
He focused on the unconscious and repression
believed talking about your problems would help you fix them - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
Everything comes down to observable behavior
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Psychology is the scientific study of: - ✔✔behavior and mental processes
Four goals of Psychology: - ✔✔Description, Explanation , Prediction, Control
description: - ✔✔What is happening?
Observing a behavior and noting everything about it
explanation: - ✔✔Why is it happening?
Based on our observations, we attempt to understand why that is happening.
prediction: - ✔✔When will it happen again?
Talking about the future
control: - ✔✔How can it be changed?
Changing an undesirable behavior to a desirable
_______ is considered the father of psychology - ✔✔Wilhem Wundt
what was wilhem wundt's philosophy? - ✔✔objective introspective
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, Titchener's viewpoint was - ✔✔structuralism
explain structuralism - ✔✔Focused on the structure or basic elements of the mind.
Every experience could be broken down into sub-components.
first woman to receive her degree in psychology was - ✔✔Margaret Washburn
explain functionalism - ✔✔how the mind allows people to function in the real world.
"When you are thinking about what you are thinking about, you are no longer thinking
about what you were originally thinking about"
_________ published a book about functionalism called, Principles of Psychology. -
✔✔william james
denied Ph.D. because she was a woman - ✔✔Mary Whiton Calkin
was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology. studied the negative
effects of segregation on children - ✔✔Francis Cecil Sumner
the whole is greater than the sum of its parts - ✔✔Gestalt's theory
studied disorders of the nervous system
He focused on the unconscious and repression
believed talking about your problems would help you fix them - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
Everything comes down to observable behavior
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