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