PSY 121-EXAM 1-MISSOURI STATE
UNIVERSITY-SP18 QUESTIONS 100%
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Psychology - ANSWERThe scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Four Goals of Psychology - ANSWERDescription, Explanation, Prediction, and
Control
Modern Freudians - ANSWERAnna Freud, Jung, and Adler changed the emphasis in
Freud's original theory into a kind of neo-Freudianism
Skinner - ANSWEROperant conditioning
Maslow and Rogers - ANSWERThe humanistic perspective and therapy approach.
Cognitive Psychology - ANSWERstudy of learning, memory, language, and problem
solving, and includes the field of cognitive neuroscience
Wilhelm Wundt - ANSWER"Father of Psychology"; introspection-1879
Edward Titchener - ANSWERWundt's student; brought structuralism to America
Margaret Washburn - ANSWERFirst woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology
William James - ANSWERfounder of functionalism; studied how humans use
perception to function in our environment
Minorities in Psychology - ANSWERmany of psychology's early pioneers were
minorities such as African Americans who, despite prejudice and racism, made
important contributions to the study of human and animal behavior
Functionalism Influenced the Modern Fields of _________ - ANSWEReducational,
evolutionary, industrial, and organizational psychology
Wertheimer - ANSWERStarted Gestalt. Studied sensation and perception
Freud - ANSWERproposed that the unconscious mind controls much of our
conscious behavior in his theory of psychoanalysis
Watson - ANSWERproposed a science of behavior called behaviorism, focused only
on the study of observable stimuli and responses
Watson and Raynor - ANSWERdemonstrated that a phobia could be learned by
conditioning a baby to be afraid of a white rat-Little Albert
, Mary Cover Jones - ANSWERone of Watson's more famous students in behaviorism
and child development, later demonstrated that a learned phobia could be counter-
conditioned
Biopsychology - ANSWERstudy of biological bases of behavior, such as hormones,
heredity, chemicals in the nervous system, structural defects in the brain, and the
effects of physical diseases
Principles of Evolution - ANSWERused in perspective to see how mind works as it
does; behavior seen as adaptive or survival value
Psychologists - ANSWERacademic degrees; counseling, teaching, and research,
may specialize in any areas of psychology
Psychology Specialization - ANSWERclinical, counseling, developmental, social, and
personality
Psychiatrists - ANSWERmedical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for
persons with mental disorders
Psychiatric Social Worker - ANSWERsocial workers with special training in the
influences of the environment on mental illness
Scientific Method - ANSWERdetermine facts and control possibilities of error and
bias when observing behavior; question, hypothesis, test, conclusions, report results
Naturalistic Observation - ANSWERwatching behavior in real-world settings without
trying to manipulate the situation; disadvantage-lack of control
Laboratory Observations - ANSWERwatching animals or people in artificial but
controlled situation, such as laboratory
Case Studies - ANSWERdetailed investigations of one subject, whereas surveys
involve asking standardized questions of large groups of people that represent a
sample of the population of interest-info gained cannot be applied to other cases
Correlation - ANSWERstatistical technique that allows researchers to discover and
predict relationships between variables of interest-does not equal causation
Positive Correlation - ANSWERA relationship between two variables in which both
variables either increase or decrease together.
Experiments - ANSWERtightly controlled manipulations of variables that allow
researchers to determine cause-and-effect relationships
Independent Variable - ANSWERThe variable that is varied or manipulated by the
researcher.
UNIVERSITY-SP18 QUESTIONS 100%
SOLVED!!
Psychology - ANSWERThe scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Four Goals of Psychology - ANSWERDescription, Explanation, Prediction, and
Control
Modern Freudians - ANSWERAnna Freud, Jung, and Adler changed the emphasis in
Freud's original theory into a kind of neo-Freudianism
Skinner - ANSWEROperant conditioning
Maslow and Rogers - ANSWERThe humanistic perspective and therapy approach.
Cognitive Psychology - ANSWERstudy of learning, memory, language, and problem
solving, and includes the field of cognitive neuroscience
Wilhelm Wundt - ANSWER"Father of Psychology"; introspection-1879
Edward Titchener - ANSWERWundt's student; brought structuralism to America
Margaret Washburn - ANSWERFirst woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology
William James - ANSWERfounder of functionalism; studied how humans use
perception to function in our environment
Minorities in Psychology - ANSWERmany of psychology's early pioneers were
minorities such as African Americans who, despite prejudice and racism, made
important contributions to the study of human and animal behavior
Functionalism Influenced the Modern Fields of _________ - ANSWEReducational,
evolutionary, industrial, and organizational psychology
Wertheimer - ANSWERStarted Gestalt. Studied sensation and perception
Freud - ANSWERproposed that the unconscious mind controls much of our
conscious behavior in his theory of psychoanalysis
Watson - ANSWERproposed a science of behavior called behaviorism, focused only
on the study of observable stimuli and responses
Watson and Raynor - ANSWERdemonstrated that a phobia could be learned by
conditioning a baby to be afraid of a white rat-Little Albert
, Mary Cover Jones - ANSWERone of Watson's more famous students in behaviorism
and child development, later demonstrated that a learned phobia could be counter-
conditioned
Biopsychology - ANSWERstudy of biological bases of behavior, such as hormones,
heredity, chemicals in the nervous system, structural defects in the brain, and the
effects of physical diseases
Principles of Evolution - ANSWERused in perspective to see how mind works as it
does; behavior seen as adaptive or survival value
Psychologists - ANSWERacademic degrees; counseling, teaching, and research,
may specialize in any areas of psychology
Psychology Specialization - ANSWERclinical, counseling, developmental, social, and
personality
Psychiatrists - ANSWERmedical doctors who provide diagnosis and therapy for
persons with mental disorders
Psychiatric Social Worker - ANSWERsocial workers with special training in the
influences of the environment on mental illness
Scientific Method - ANSWERdetermine facts and control possibilities of error and
bias when observing behavior; question, hypothesis, test, conclusions, report results
Naturalistic Observation - ANSWERwatching behavior in real-world settings without
trying to manipulate the situation; disadvantage-lack of control
Laboratory Observations - ANSWERwatching animals or people in artificial but
controlled situation, such as laboratory
Case Studies - ANSWERdetailed investigations of one subject, whereas surveys
involve asking standardized questions of large groups of people that represent a
sample of the population of interest-info gained cannot be applied to other cases
Correlation - ANSWERstatistical technique that allows researchers to discover and
predict relationships between variables of interest-does not equal causation
Positive Correlation - ANSWERA relationship between two variables in which both
variables either increase or decrease together.
Experiments - ANSWERtightly controlled manipulations of variables that allow
researchers to determine cause-and-effect relationships
Independent Variable - ANSWERThe variable that is varied or manipulated by the
researcher.
