Psychology Exam Study Guide
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Psychology - ✔✔the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Applied Research - ✔✔designed to solve specific problems
Basic Research - ✔✔pure science, used to find new information
Fields of Psychology - ✔✔clinical, consumer, rehabilitation, health, organizational
(industrial)
Clinical Psychology - ✔✔most common psychological career; clinical psychologists use
their skills to promote health in groups and individuals
Consumer Psychology - ✔✔study why people buy certain products over others
Rehabilitation Psychology - ✔✔help those who have been involved in an accident or
have been ill
Health Psychology - ✔✔find ways to prevent disease and promote good health
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,Organizational (Industrial) Psychology - ✔✔try to apply psychology to help business
and organizations operate
Types of Psychologists - ✔✔cognitive, social, neuropsychologist, behaviorist, humanist,
psychoanalysis
Cognitive Psychologists - ✔✔focus on how people think - how they take in, process,
store, and retrieve information (Jean Piaget)
Social Psychologists - ✔✔study group dynamics and how behaviors and attitudes
influence others
Neuropsychologists - ✔✔explore how the brain works
Behaviorists - ✔✔only study observable behaviors, not mental processes
Humanists - ✔✔focus on the stuff of conscious experience, a person's freedom to
choose, and the capacity for personal growth
Psychoanalysts - ✔✔practitioners using Freud's theory of personality and
psychoanalysis-a therapeutic technique that attempts to provide insight into thoughts
and actions by exposing and interpreting the underlying unconscious motives and
conflicts
Ivan Pavlov - ✔✔behaviorist, learning theorist famous for discovery of classical
conditioning
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, Jean Piaget - ✔✔development and cognitive psychologist known for his studies of
children's thought processes
William Wundt - ✔✔founder of modern psychology
E.B. Tichener - ✔✔founder of structuralism (theory that the structure of conscious
experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of thoughts and
sensations)
William James - ✔✔first American psychologist and author of the first psychology
textbook
Sigmund Freud - ✔✔founder of psychoanalysis
Neuron - ✔✔a nerve cell, receives/carries information
All-or-None Response - ✔✔if a neuron fires, it will fire at same intensity every time
Sequence of Transmission - ✔✔dendrite, cell body, axon, synapse
Dendrites - ✔✔receive messages from other cells
Synapses - ✔✔tiny, fluid-filled gap between the axon terminal of one neuron and the
dendrite of another neuron
Axon - ✔✔passes messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or
glands
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Psychology - ✔✔the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Applied Research - ✔✔designed to solve specific problems
Basic Research - ✔✔pure science, used to find new information
Fields of Psychology - ✔✔clinical, consumer, rehabilitation, health, organizational
(industrial)
Clinical Psychology - ✔✔most common psychological career; clinical psychologists use
their skills to promote health in groups and individuals
Consumer Psychology - ✔✔study why people buy certain products over others
Rehabilitation Psychology - ✔✔help those who have been involved in an accident or
have been ill
Health Psychology - ✔✔find ways to prevent disease and promote good health
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,Organizational (Industrial) Psychology - ✔✔try to apply psychology to help business
and organizations operate
Types of Psychologists - ✔✔cognitive, social, neuropsychologist, behaviorist, humanist,
psychoanalysis
Cognitive Psychologists - ✔✔focus on how people think - how they take in, process,
store, and retrieve information (Jean Piaget)
Social Psychologists - ✔✔study group dynamics and how behaviors and attitudes
influence others
Neuropsychologists - ✔✔explore how the brain works
Behaviorists - ✔✔only study observable behaviors, not mental processes
Humanists - ✔✔focus on the stuff of conscious experience, a person's freedom to
choose, and the capacity for personal growth
Psychoanalysts - ✔✔practitioners using Freud's theory of personality and
psychoanalysis-a therapeutic technique that attempts to provide insight into thoughts
and actions by exposing and interpreting the underlying unconscious motives and
conflicts
Ivan Pavlov - ✔✔behaviorist, learning theorist famous for discovery of classical
conditioning
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, Jean Piaget - ✔✔development and cognitive psychologist known for his studies of
children's thought processes
William Wundt - ✔✔founder of modern psychology
E.B. Tichener - ✔✔founder of structuralism (theory that the structure of conscious
experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of thoughts and
sensations)
William James - ✔✔first American psychologist and author of the first psychology
textbook
Sigmund Freud - ✔✔founder of psychoanalysis
Neuron - ✔✔a nerve cell, receives/carries information
All-or-None Response - ✔✔if a neuron fires, it will fire at same intensity every time
Sequence of Transmission - ✔✔dendrite, cell body, axon, synapse
Dendrites - ✔✔receive messages from other cells
Synapses - ✔✔tiny, fluid-filled gap between the axon terminal of one neuron and the
dendrite of another neuron
Axon - ✔✔passes messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or
glands
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