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Psychology Exam questions and
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What is psychology? - ANS✅✅The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

Why is psychology a science? - ANS✅✅Collection of data through systematic observation in order
to describe, explain, predict, and hopefully control behavior. (Scientific Method)

What are the 2 areas of psychology? - ANS✅✅Research-oriented and application-oriented

How many divisions of the APA are there? - ANS✅✅54

What are the 3 subdivisions of research-oriented psychology? - ANS✅✅Developmental,
physiological, and experimental

What are the 2 subdivisions of application-oriented psychology? - ANS✅✅Clinical (Counseling),
Sports and Exercise

What is the advantage of Naturalistic Observation? - ANS✅✅Behavior is natural and spontaneous

What are 2 disadvantages of Naturalistic Observation? - ANS✅✅Time consuming, observer bias

What are 2 advantages of Case Studies? - ANS✅✅Close and concentrated, examine all aspects of
behavior

What are 2 disadvantages of Case Studies? - ANS✅✅Schedule conflicts, can't generalize

What is the advantage of Surveys? - ANS✅✅Quick way to gather info

What are 2 disadvantages of Surveys? - ANS✅✅Do not determine or explain causes of behavior,
sampling error

, What is the advantage of Correlational Research? - ANS✅✅Allows for predictions

What is the disadvantage of Correlational Research? - ANS✅✅Can't prove cause/effect

r = ? - ANS✅✅-1 < r < -0.5: negative correlation

0.5 < r < 1: positive correlation

anything else: no correlation

What is the advantage of Experimental Research? - ANS✅✅Cause/effect

What is the disadvantage of Experimental Research? - ANS✅✅Lab setting

What is a Longitudinal Study? - ANS✅✅Studying the same group at different times

What is a Cross-Sectional Study? - ANS✅✅Studying different groups at the same time

Who was Wilhelm Wundt? - ANS✅✅First formal psychological laboratory, 1879

First psychology class - 4 students

First experiment: reaction time study

Who was Sigmund Freud? - ANS✅✅Case studies on people's dreams

Psychoanalysis & Psychodynamics

Who was Stanley Milgram? - ANS✅✅Obedience experiment in 1963

Who was Ivan Pavlov? - ANS✅✅Learning occurs through classical conditioning

Who was B.F. Skinner? - ANS✅✅Learning is best achieved through operant conditioning - rewards
& punishments

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