PSYCH 111- EXAM 1 (BYUI) QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
Psychology - ANSWER the scientific study of mind and behavior
(theories about human beings supported by scientific evidence)
Where did Psychology come from? - ANSWER Philosophy (Socrates, Aristotle, Plato) - The
essence of human nature?
also Evolution - Charles Darwin and natural selection.
The Father of Modern Psychology - ANSWER William James
Functionalism (why we scream when hurt)
Adaptive value of human behavior
Learn how something works by learning how it doesn't work.
Physiology - ANSWER History of studying the "mind"
1st thing done to study the mind was reaction time
Phrenology - ANSWER studying someone by the bumps on the skull, or the shape of their
head (no longer in practice)
, Epistemology - ANSWER study of knowledge, how do you know something is true
experience, sense, faith, reading, seeing, etc.
Mainstream Psychology's beliefs:
Empiricism - ANSWER the belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through
observation, things are known through the senses and/or observation.
Mainstream Psychology's beliefs:
Materialists - ANSWER Those who believe that everything in the universe is material
(physical), including those things that others refer to as mental, one kind of matter; and it's
material
Mainstream Psychology's beliefs:
Determinists - ANSWER do not believe in freedom of the human will, no free will
Mainstream Psychology's beliefs:
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
Psychology - ANSWER the scientific study of mind and behavior
(theories about human beings supported by scientific evidence)
Where did Psychology come from? - ANSWER Philosophy (Socrates, Aristotle, Plato) - The
essence of human nature?
also Evolution - Charles Darwin and natural selection.
The Father of Modern Psychology - ANSWER William James
Functionalism (why we scream when hurt)
Adaptive value of human behavior
Learn how something works by learning how it doesn't work.
Physiology - ANSWER History of studying the "mind"
1st thing done to study the mind was reaction time
Phrenology - ANSWER studying someone by the bumps on the skull, or the shape of their
head (no longer in practice)
, Epistemology - ANSWER study of knowledge, how do you know something is true
experience, sense, faith, reading, seeing, etc.
Mainstream Psychology's beliefs:
Empiricism - ANSWER the belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through
observation, things are known through the senses and/or observation.
Mainstream Psychology's beliefs:
Materialists - ANSWER Those who believe that everything in the universe is material
(physical), including those things that others refer to as mental, one kind of matter; and it's
material
Mainstream Psychology's beliefs:
Determinists - ANSWER do not believe in freedom of the human will, no free will
Mainstream Psychology's beliefs:
