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PSYCH 1111 TRU Final Exam Study
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empirical - Answer✔️✔️-relying on or derived from observation,
experimentation, or measurement
psychology - Answer✔️✔️-the scientific study of behavior and mental
processes
psychobabble - Answer✔️✔️-Pseudoscience and quackery covered by a
veneer of psychological and scientific-sounding language
critical thinking - Answer✔️✔️-The ability and willingness to assess claims
and make objective judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons and
evidence rather than emotion or anecdote
Occams Razor - Answer✔️✔️-The principle of choosing the solution that
accounts for the most evidence while making the fewest unverified
assumptions.
phrenology - Answer✔️✔️-The now discredited theory that different brain
areas account for specific character and personality traits, which can be
"read" from bumps on the skull.
structuralism - Answer✔️✔️-early psych approach that emphasized the
analysis of immediate experiences into basic elements
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functionalism - Answer✔️✔️-an early psychological approach that
emphasized the function or purpose of behavior and consciousness
psychoanalysis - Answer✔️✔️-Freud's theory of personality that attributes
thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques
used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret
unconscious tensions
biological perspective - Answer✔️✔️-approach that emphasizes bodily
events and changes associated with actions feelings and thoughts
evolutionary psychology - Answer✔️✔️-emphasizes the importance of
adaptation, reproduction, and "survival of the fittest" in shaping behavior
learning perspective - Answer✔️✔️-emphasizes how the environment and
experience affect a person/animal actions
behaviorism - Answer✔️✔️-emphasizes the study of observable behavior
and the role of the environment and prior experiences as determinant of
behavior
cognitive perspective - Answer✔️✔️-A psychological approach that
emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem
solving, and other areas of behavior
socioculture perspective - Answer✔️✔️-perspective that focuses on the
relationship between social behavior and culture
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psychodynamic perspective - Answer✔️✔️-emphasizes unconscious
dynamics within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or the
movement of instinctual energy
humanist psychology - Answer✔️✔️-a psychological approach that
emphasizes personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human
potential
feminist psychology - Answer✔️✔️-a psychological approach that analyzes
the influence of social inequities on gender relations and on the behavior of
the two sexes
psychological practice - Answer✔️✔️-providing health or mental health
services
basic psychology - Answer✔️✔️-the study of psychological issues in order to
seek knowledge for its own sake rather than for its practical application
applied psychology - Answer✔️✔️-The study of psychological issues that
have direct practical significance; also, the application of psychological
findings.
psychotherapist - Answer✔️✔️-
psychoanalyst - Answer✔️✔️-a person who has obtained specialized training
at a psychoanalysis institute
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psychiatrist - Answer✔️✔️-A medical doctor who has specialized in the
diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders
theory - Answer✔️✔️-an organized system of assumptions and principles
that purports to explain a specified set of phenomena and
interrelationships
operational definition - Answer✔️✔️-A precise definition of a term in a
hypothesis, which specifies the operations for observing and measuring the
process or phenomenon being defined.
principle of falsifiability - Answer✔️✔️-The principle that a scientific theory
must make predictions that are specific enough to expose the theory to the
possibility of disconfirmation; that is, the theory must predict not only
what will happen but also what will not happen.
confirmation bias - Answer✔️✔️-the tendency to look for or pay attention
only to information that confirms one's own belief
representative sample - Answer✔️✔️-A group of individuals, selected from a
population for study, which matches the population on important
characteristics such as age and sex.
descriptive methods - Answer✔️✔️-methods that yield descriptions of
behaviors but not necessarily casual explanations
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PSYCH 1111 TRU Final Exam Study
Guide with Complete Solutions
empirical - Answer✔️✔️-relying on or derived from observation,
experimentation, or measurement
psychology - Answer✔️✔️-the scientific study of behavior and mental
processes
psychobabble - Answer✔️✔️-Pseudoscience and quackery covered by a
veneer of psychological and scientific-sounding language
critical thinking - Answer✔️✔️-The ability and willingness to assess claims
and make objective judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons and
evidence rather than emotion or anecdote
Occams Razor - Answer✔️✔️-The principle of choosing the solution that
accounts for the most evidence while making the fewest unverified
assumptions.
phrenology - Answer✔️✔️-The now discredited theory that different brain
areas account for specific character and personality traits, which can be
"read" from bumps on the skull.
structuralism - Answer✔️✔️-early psych approach that emphasized the
analysis of immediate experiences into basic elements
1
, ©SOPHIABENNETT@2024-2025 Monday, August 26, 2024 6:09 AM
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functionalism - Answer✔️✔️-an early psychological approach that
emphasized the function or purpose of behavior and consciousness
psychoanalysis - Answer✔️✔️-Freud's theory of personality that attributes
thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques
used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret
unconscious tensions
biological perspective - Answer✔️✔️-approach that emphasizes bodily
events and changes associated with actions feelings and thoughts
evolutionary psychology - Answer✔️✔️-emphasizes the importance of
adaptation, reproduction, and "survival of the fittest" in shaping behavior
learning perspective - Answer✔️✔️-emphasizes how the environment and
experience affect a person/animal actions
behaviorism - Answer✔️✔️-emphasizes the study of observable behavior
and the role of the environment and prior experiences as determinant of
behavior
cognitive perspective - Answer✔️✔️-A psychological approach that
emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem
solving, and other areas of behavior
socioculture perspective - Answer✔️✔️-perspective that focuses on the
relationship between social behavior and culture
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psychodynamic perspective - Answer✔️✔️-emphasizes unconscious
dynamics within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or the
movement of instinctual energy
humanist psychology - Answer✔️✔️-a psychological approach that
emphasizes personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human
potential
feminist psychology - Answer✔️✔️-a psychological approach that analyzes
the influence of social inequities on gender relations and on the behavior of
the two sexes
psychological practice - Answer✔️✔️-providing health or mental health
services
basic psychology - Answer✔️✔️-the study of psychological issues in order to
seek knowledge for its own sake rather than for its practical application
applied psychology - Answer✔️✔️-The study of psychological issues that
have direct practical significance; also, the application of psychological
findings.
psychotherapist - Answer✔️✔️-
psychoanalyst - Answer✔️✔️-a person who has obtained specialized training
at a psychoanalysis institute
3
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psychiatrist - Answer✔️✔️-A medical doctor who has specialized in the
diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders
theory - Answer✔️✔️-an organized system of assumptions and principles
that purports to explain a specified set of phenomena and
interrelationships
operational definition - Answer✔️✔️-A precise definition of a term in a
hypothesis, which specifies the operations for observing and measuring the
process or phenomenon being defined.
principle of falsifiability - Answer✔️✔️-The principle that a scientific theory
must make predictions that are specific enough to expose the theory to the
possibility of disconfirmation; that is, the theory must predict not only
what will happen but also what will not happen.
confirmation bias - Answer✔️✔️-the tendency to look for or pay attention
only to information that confirms one's own belief
representative sample - Answer✔️✔️-A group of individuals, selected from a
population for study, which matches the population on important
characteristics such as age and sex.
descriptive methods - Answer✔️✔️-methods that yield descriptions of
behaviors but not necessarily casual explanations
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