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Psychology 1101 Chapters 1-3 Exam
Questions And Answers (Guaranteed A+)
Psychology - answer✔The scientific study of behaviors and mental processes; uses scientific
method; interested in the way people feel and think
scientific - answer✔uses systematic methods to observes and draw conclusions
Behavior - answer✔everything we do that can be directly observed
Mental Processes - answer✔the thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experience
privately that cannot directly be observes
Critical thinking - answer✔the process of reflecting deeply and actively, asking questions, and
evaluating evidence; questioning the facts
Skepticism - answer✔challenging whether a fact is really true; questions what "everybody
knows"
Pseudoscience - answer✔information that is not supported by scientific research
Objectivity - answer✔being open to evidence even if it's contradictory to your beliefs; seeing
things as they really are, not just as we would like them to be
Empirical method - answer✔gaining knowledge through the observation of events, the
collection of data, and logical reasoning
Curiosity - answer✔wanting to know what something is and why it is that way
psychodynamic approach - answer✔unconscious motives and experiences in early childhood
govern personality and mental disorders
Freud - answer✔came up with psychodynamic approach; one of the first psychologists; thought
early childhood experiences shaped a person's personality
psychoanalysis - answer✔form of therapy where they unlock a person's unconscious
thoughts/conflicts by talking with them about childhood memories and their dreams, thoughts
and feelings
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Behavioral approach - answer✔emphasizes the scientific study of observable behavioral
responses and their environmental determinants.; believe only observable events can be
studied scientifically; Studied how organisms learn new behaviors or change existing ones due
to rewards or punishments
2 people who were proponents of behavior approach - answer✔both were behaviorists in the
early 20th century who made it popular
Watson: thought study of consciousness, thoughts, feelings should be abandoned Skinner:
continued this idea; said psych should be about what people do not things you can't see
Humanistic approach - answer✔emphasizes a person's positive qualities, the capacity for
positive growth, and the freedom to choose one's destiny; believe that people have the ability
to control their lives and are not controlled by the environment; believe humans have a sense
of self, while non-human animals do not; believe that everyone is born with a desire to reach
their full potential
2 people who were proponents of humanistic approach - answer✔Rogers and Maslow
Biological approach - answer✔organism's functioning can be explained in terms of bodily
structures and biochemical processes that underlie behavior; focuses on how our bodily
systems interact with the environment and how this influences us; focuses on the brain and
nervous system
Neuroscience - answer✔scientific study of the nervous system; studies the structure, function,
development, genetics and biochemistry of the nervous system and emphasizes the brain and
nervous system are central to understanding behavior, thought and emotion
Cognitive approach - answer✔human behavior cannot be fully understood without examining
how people acquire, store, and process information; an individual's mental processes are in
control of their behavior through memories, perceptions, images and thinking
information processing - answer✔the ways the human mind interprets incoming info, weighs it,
stores it and applies it to decision making
Sociocultural approach - answer✔to understand human behavior we have to examine
influences of social/cultural environment; focuses on comparing people from different country,
but also people from different ethnic groups and cultures
Evolutionary approach - answer✔human behavior can be explained using evolutionary ideas
such as adaption, the drive to reproduce, and natural selection; believe that evolution also
influences our decision making, mating patterns, level of aggression and fears
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Psychology 1101 Chapters 1-3 Exam
Questions And Answers (Guaranteed A+)
Psychology - answer✔The scientific study of behaviors and mental processes; uses scientific
method; interested in the way people feel and think
scientific - answer✔uses systematic methods to observes and draw conclusions
Behavior - answer✔everything we do that can be directly observed
Mental Processes - answer✔the thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experience
privately that cannot directly be observes
Critical thinking - answer✔the process of reflecting deeply and actively, asking questions, and
evaluating evidence; questioning the facts
Skepticism - answer✔challenging whether a fact is really true; questions what "everybody
knows"
Pseudoscience - answer✔information that is not supported by scientific research
Objectivity - answer✔being open to evidence even if it's contradictory to your beliefs; seeing
things as they really are, not just as we would like them to be
Empirical method - answer✔gaining knowledge through the observation of events, the
collection of data, and logical reasoning
Curiosity - answer✔wanting to know what something is and why it is that way
psychodynamic approach - answer✔unconscious motives and experiences in early childhood
govern personality and mental disorders
Freud - answer✔came up with psychodynamic approach; one of the first psychologists; thought
early childhood experiences shaped a person's personality
psychoanalysis - answer✔form of therapy where they unlock a person's unconscious
thoughts/conflicts by talking with them about childhood memories and their dreams, thoughts
and feelings
1|Page
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Behavioral approach - answer✔emphasizes the scientific study of observable behavioral
responses and their environmental determinants.; believe only observable events can be
studied scientifically; Studied how organisms learn new behaviors or change existing ones due
to rewards or punishments
2 people who were proponents of behavior approach - answer✔both were behaviorists in the
early 20th century who made it popular
Watson: thought study of consciousness, thoughts, feelings should be abandoned Skinner:
continued this idea; said psych should be about what people do not things you can't see
Humanistic approach - answer✔emphasizes a person's positive qualities, the capacity for
positive growth, and the freedom to choose one's destiny; believe that people have the ability
to control their lives and are not controlled by the environment; believe humans have a sense
of self, while non-human animals do not; believe that everyone is born with a desire to reach
their full potential
2 people who were proponents of humanistic approach - answer✔Rogers and Maslow
Biological approach - answer✔organism's functioning can be explained in terms of bodily
structures and biochemical processes that underlie behavior; focuses on how our bodily
systems interact with the environment and how this influences us; focuses on the brain and
nervous system
Neuroscience - answer✔scientific study of the nervous system; studies the structure, function,
development, genetics and biochemistry of the nervous system and emphasizes the brain and
nervous system are central to understanding behavior, thought and emotion
Cognitive approach - answer✔human behavior cannot be fully understood without examining
how people acquire, store, and process information; an individual's mental processes are in
control of their behavior through memories, perceptions, images and thinking
information processing - answer✔the ways the human mind interprets incoming info, weighs it,
stores it and applies it to decision making
Sociocultural approach - answer✔to understand human behavior we have to examine
influences of social/cultural environment; focuses on comparing people from different country,
but also people from different ethnic groups and cultures
Evolutionary approach - answer✔human behavior can be explained using evolutionary ideas
such as adaption, the drive to reproduce, and natural selection; believe that evolution also
influences our decision making, mating patterns, level of aggression and fears
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