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PSYC 101 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
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Psychology - correct-answer -The scientific investigation of mental processes and
behavior
Where did psychology branch out from? - correct-answer -Physiology and
Philosophy
Structuralism - correct-answer -Focused on the structure of consciousness and the
mind (not identified with anymore)
2 Structuralists - correct-answer -Wundt and Titchener
Functionalism - correct-answer -Focused on the function of the mind in helping
people adapt to their environment (not identified with anymore)
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2 Functionalists - correct-answer -Darwin and James
3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena - correct-answer -
Theoretical Propositions, Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation
Modern Perspectives - correct-answer -Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive,
Evolutionary
Psychodynamic - correct-answer -started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy
to test or prove because of small sample size
Behaviorist - correct-answer -Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are
byproducts of environmental events; experiment
Behaviorist Metaphor - correct-answer -People are like machines
Cognitive - correct-answer -Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and
retrieve information (Perspective)
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Cognitive Metaphor - correct-answer -Brain like a computer
Evolutionary - correct-answer -Darwin; behaviors have come about because they
helped our ancestors survive
Evolutionary Metaphor - correct-answer -runners in a race
Biopsychology - correct-answer -Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-
discipline)
Developmental psychology - correct-answer -How thought, feeling, and behavior
develops through life span
Myelin Sheath - correct-answer -lipid coating from glial cells (neruoglia) that
surrounds most axons and enable faster signal transport
PSYC 101 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT SOLUTIONS | GUARANTEED
PASS
Psychology - correct-answer -The scientific investigation of mental processes and
behavior
Where did psychology branch out from? - correct-answer -Physiology and
Philosophy
Structuralism - correct-answer -Focused on the structure of consciousness and the
mind (not identified with anymore)
2 Structuralists - correct-answer -Wundt and Titchener
Functionalism - correct-answer -Focused on the function of the mind in helping
people adapt to their environment (not identified with anymore)
, 2
2 Functionalists - correct-answer -Darwin and James
3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena - correct-answer -
Theoretical Propositions, Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation
Modern Perspectives - correct-answer -Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive,
Evolutionary
Psychodynamic - correct-answer -started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy
to test or prove because of small sample size
Behaviorist - correct-answer -Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are
byproducts of environmental events; experiment
Behaviorist Metaphor - correct-answer -People are like machines
Cognitive - correct-answer -Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and
retrieve information (Perspective)
, 3
Cognitive Metaphor - correct-answer -Brain like a computer
Evolutionary - correct-answer -Darwin; behaviors have come about because they
helped our ancestors survive
Evolutionary Metaphor - correct-answer -runners in a race
Biopsychology - correct-answer -Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-
discipline)
Developmental psychology - correct-answer -How thought, feeling, and behavior
develops through life span
Myelin Sheath - correct-answer -lipid coating from glial cells (neruoglia) that
surrounds most axons and enable faster signal transport
