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PSYC 2301 EXAM 1 |QUESTIONS & EXPERTLY VERIFIED ANSWERS, 2025 | 2026. Quiz_________________? According to your text how is "science" described today? - Answer science = knowledge + special way learning about reality through systematic observation and experimental Quiz_________________? Define behaviorism - Answer on observable, measurable behavior Behaviorism, also known as behavioral psychology, is a theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning. Conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment. Behaviorists believe that our responses to environmental stimuli shape our behaviors. - Quiz_________________? Define clinical psychology - Answer explains, defines, and treats psychological disorders and promotes general well being Quiz_________________? Define cognitive psychology - Answer investigates mental processes including thinking, problem solving, and information processing = mind how code message Quiz_________________? Define correlation - Answer measure of direction and strength of relationship bw 2 variable / predict 1 variable relate others / not infer cause - effect Quiz_________________? Define critical thinking - Answer ability to think clearly, rationally and independently. follow logical argument identify mistake logic - attitude belief , value Quiz_________________? Define cross-sectional study - Answer experimental = age relate to changes = stimulate from people of different age / disease and exposure statuses are measured simultaneously in a given population. / measure cholesterol levels in daily walkers across two age groups, over 40 and under 40, and compare these to cholesterol levels among non-walkers in the same age groups Quiz_________________? Define developmental psychology - Answer investigates the normal changes in behavior that occur across the lifespan = how we grow Quiz_________________? Define evolutionary psychology - Answer asks how our evolutionary past continues to shape our behavior = maintain - allow adapt Quiz_________________? Define glial cells - Answer - make neutron to do job efficiently - neutron stay in place - clean up debris - connect blood vessel serving neutron support the neurons by, among other things, supplying them with nutrients and removing waste material

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Quiz_________________?

According to your text how is "science" described today? -

Answer✅

science = knowledge + special way learning about reality through systematic observation
and experimental



Quiz_________________?

Define behaviorism -

Answer✅

on observable, measurable behavior Behaviorism, also known as behavioral psychology, is a
theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning.
Conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment. Behaviorists believe that our
responses to environmental stimuli shape our behaviors. -



Quiz_________________?

Define clinical psychology -

Answer✅

explains, defines, and treats psychological disorders and promotes general well being



Quiz_________________?

Define cognitive psychology -

Answer✅


1

, investigates mental processes including thinking, problem solving, and information processing
= mind how code message



Quiz_________________?

Define correlation -

Answer✅

measure of direction and strength of relationship bw 2 variable / predict 1 variable relate
others / not infer cause - effect



Quiz_________________?

Define critical thinking -

Answer✅

ability to think clearly, rationally and independently. follow logical argument identify mistake
logic -> attitude belief , value



Quiz_________________?

Define cross-sectional study -

Answer✅

experimental = age relate to changes = stimulate from people of different age / disease and
exposure statuses are measured simultaneously in a given population. / measure cholesterol
levels in daily walkers across two age groups, over 40 and under 40, and compare these to
cholesterol levels among non-walkers in the same age groups



Quiz_________________?

Define developmental psychology -

Answer✅

investigates the normal changes in behavior that occur across the lifespan = how we grow



Quiz_________________?

Define evolutionary psychology -



2

, Answer✅

asks how our evolutionary past continues to shape our behavior = maintain - allow adapt



Quiz_________________?

Define glial cells -

Answer✅

- make neutron to do job efficiently

- neutron stay in place

- clean up debris

- connect blood vessel serving neutron

support the neurons by, among other things, supplying them with nutrients and removing
waste material



Quiz_________________?

Define informed consent -

Answer✅

permission obtain from a research participant (volunteer) : risks + benefits of experiment
=> explain through fully



Quiz_________________?

Define lateralization -

Answer✅

notion different functions are processed primarily on 1 side of brain and other



Quiz_________________?

Define longitudinal study -

Answer✅

experiment for accessing age related change in which data are obtained for same individual
at interval over long period ( children @ depression) researchers conduct several
observations of the same subjects over a period of time, sometimes lasting many years./

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