PSY 121 EXAM 1 UNCG Exam All Possible Questions and Answers with complete solution

Psychology - the science of human behavior and mental processes What do Psychologists study? - Observable behavior, and mental processes What kinds of settings/jobs do psychologists work in? - teaching, researching, consulting, and counseling. Experimental Psychologist: - Usually work at universities, Some at hospitals/clinics, Produce research on behavior Applied Psychologist - Corporations, hospitals, clinics, Practical problem solving, Provide services to the public List some branches of Psychology - -Neuroscience: Brain research -Cognitive: Learning, thinking, memory, and mind -Behavioral: Reward and punishment, animal behavior, learning -Developmental: Change across lifespan, kids, aging -Social and Personality: Personality, attitudes/beliefs, love, prejudice Four Major Research perspectives - Behavioral, sociocultural, cognitive, and biological perspectives Psychology is NOT - -NOT Philosophy: Rational thinking about the world -NOT Psychiatry: Medical science of brain disorders -NOT Sociology: Study of societies and groups behavioral - emphasizes the conditioning of our behaviorsociocultural - emphasizes the influence of the external environment, impact of other people on self cognitive - how mental processes such as perception and memory work biological - how our physiological (brain and nervous system) produces our behavior Kitty Genovese - She was murdered in front of 38 bystanders who did not phone the police this is now referred to the ''bystander effect'' hindsight bias - the tendency- after learning about an outcome, to be overconfident in ones ability to have ''predicted'' it. naturalistic observation - behavior is researched in a natural setting ex. from book: gorillas participant observation - the observer becomes a part of the group being observed