PSYCH 401 Exam 1 Questions With Correct
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psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the scientific study of behavior and mental
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processes; scope reaches from single brain cell to a whole culture
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Rene Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-proposed a doctrine called interactive
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dualism
interactive dualism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-idea that mind and body were
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separate entities that interact to produce sensations, emotions, and other
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conscious experiences |
nature vs. nurture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-inborn nature of the individual OR the
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|environmental influences that nurture the individual; asks which is more
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important
physiology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-branch of biology that studies the functions
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and parts of living organisms including humans
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Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-German physiologist who studied
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fundamental physiological processes such as mental reaction times in response to
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|visual or auditory stimuli
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, Edward B. Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-one of Wundt's students who began
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teaching at Cornell; shared his ideas
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structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-even our most complex conscious
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experiences could be broken down into elemental structures of sensations and
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feelings. Trained subjects using introspection
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introspection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-subjects view a simple stimulus and try to
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reconstruct their sensations and feelings immediately after.
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stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-anything perceptible to the senses
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William James - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Harvard professor, inspired by evolution
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evolution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-theory that species have changed over time
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functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-stressed the importance of how behavior
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functions to allow people and animals to adapt to their environments
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G. Stanley Hall - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founded Johns Hopkins in 1883, founded
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American Psychological Association in 1892
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Mary Whiton Calkins - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-first female to earn a PhD, elected
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pres of APA in 1905
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Answers
psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the scientific study of behavior and mental
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processes; scope reaches from single brain cell to a whole culture
| | | | | | | | | |
Rene Descartes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-proposed a doctrine called interactive
| | | | | | | | |
dualism
interactive dualism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-idea that mind and body were
| | | | | | | | | |
separate entities that interact to produce sensations, emotions, and other
| | | | | | | | | |
conscious experiences |
nature vs. nurture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-inborn nature of the individual OR the
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|environmental influences that nurture the individual; asks which is more
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important
physiology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-branch of biology that studies the functions
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and parts of living organisms including humans
| | | | | |
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-German physiologist who studied
| | | | | | | |
fundamental physiological processes such as mental reaction times in response to
| | | | | | | | | |
|visual or auditory stimuli
| | |
, Edward B. Titchener - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-one of Wundt's students who began
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teaching at Cornell; shared his ideas
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structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-even our most complex conscious
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experiences could be broken down into elemental structures of sensations and
| | | | | | | | | | |
feelings. Trained subjects using introspection
| | | |
introspection - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-subjects view a simple stimulus and try to
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reconstruct their sensations and feelings immediately after.
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stimulus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-anything perceptible to the senses
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William James - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Harvard professor, inspired by evolution
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evolution - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-theory that species have changed over time
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functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-stressed the importance of how behavior
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functions to allow people and animals to adapt to their environments
| | | | | | | | | |
G. Stanley Hall - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-founded Johns Hopkins in 1883, founded
| | | | | | | | | | |
American Psychological Association in 1892
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Mary Whiton Calkins - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-first female to earn a PhD, elected
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pres of APA in 1905
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