Psychology Exam test queries and
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Psychology - ANS✅✅the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Applied Psychology - ANS✅✅Practical application of the findings of research psychologists.
Research Psychology - ANS✅✅The study of the origin, cause, or result of certain behavior.
Biopsychological Approach - ANS✅✅An approach that focuses on biological, chemical, and
hormonal factors.
Behavioral Approach - ANS✅✅Focuses on learning. Developed by B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson.
Humanistic Approach - ANS✅✅Focuses on reaching one's full potential. States that humans are
basically good and we determine our own destiny. Carl Rogers is the best known humanist.
Psychoanalytic Approach - ANS✅✅Focuses on childhood and unconscious processes. Founded by
Sigmund Freud. States that aggresive and sexual impulses that we develop during childhood are
hidden in the unconscious.
Cognitive Approach - ANS✅✅Focuses on thought processes. States that rational thought can
influence behavior and that the most important human ability is to take in information and process
it.
Sociocultural Approach - ANS✅✅Focuses on cultural, ethnic, racial, and religious factors.
Eclecticism - ANS✅✅Combining different theories.
Scientific Method - ANS✅✅A general approach to gathering information and answering questions
so that errors and biases are minimized.
Hypothesis - ANS✅✅An assumption about behavior.
, Dependent Variable - ANS✅✅The variable that is measured in an experiment.
Independent Variable - ANS✅✅The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose
effect is being studied.
Naturalistic Observation - ANS✅✅Behavior studied in natural environment without subjects
knowing.
Case Study - ANS✅✅Research method that involves an intensive investigationof one or more
participants.
Survey - ANS✅✅Research method in which data is obtained by asking many individuals a fixed set
of questions.
Longitudinal Study - ANS✅✅Research method in which data is collected about a group of
participants over a number of years to assess how certain characteristics change or remain the same
during development.
Cross-Sectional Study - ANS✅✅Research method in which data is collected from groups of
participants of different ages and compared so that conclusions can be drawn about differences due
to age.
Wilhelm Wundt - ANS✅✅Considered the "Father of Psychology". Created the first lab for
psychological research. Developed the process of introspection.
William James - ANS✅✅One of the founders of American psychology, he thought that human
consciousness should be studied as a whole; a theory known as Structuralism.
Sigmund Freud - ANS✅✅The "Father of Psychoanalysis. he developed one of the first
comprehensive theories of personality. Believed that behavior is determined by unconscious forces
that are rooted in childhood experiences.
Ivan Pavlov - ANS✅✅Russian scientist credited with discovering classical conditioning (learned
through involuntary associations); "Pavlov's Dogs"
answers graded A+
Psychology - ANS✅✅the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Applied Psychology - ANS✅✅Practical application of the findings of research psychologists.
Research Psychology - ANS✅✅The study of the origin, cause, or result of certain behavior.
Biopsychological Approach - ANS✅✅An approach that focuses on biological, chemical, and
hormonal factors.
Behavioral Approach - ANS✅✅Focuses on learning. Developed by B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson.
Humanistic Approach - ANS✅✅Focuses on reaching one's full potential. States that humans are
basically good and we determine our own destiny. Carl Rogers is the best known humanist.
Psychoanalytic Approach - ANS✅✅Focuses on childhood and unconscious processes. Founded by
Sigmund Freud. States that aggresive and sexual impulses that we develop during childhood are
hidden in the unconscious.
Cognitive Approach - ANS✅✅Focuses on thought processes. States that rational thought can
influence behavior and that the most important human ability is to take in information and process
it.
Sociocultural Approach - ANS✅✅Focuses on cultural, ethnic, racial, and religious factors.
Eclecticism - ANS✅✅Combining different theories.
Scientific Method - ANS✅✅A general approach to gathering information and answering questions
so that errors and biases are minimized.
Hypothesis - ANS✅✅An assumption about behavior.
, Dependent Variable - ANS✅✅The variable that is measured in an experiment.
Independent Variable - ANS✅✅The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose
effect is being studied.
Naturalistic Observation - ANS✅✅Behavior studied in natural environment without subjects
knowing.
Case Study - ANS✅✅Research method that involves an intensive investigationof one or more
participants.
Survey - ANS✅✅Research method in which data is obtained by asking many individuals a fixed set
of questions.
Longitudinal Study - ANS✅✅Research method in which data is collected about a group of
participants over a number of years to assess how certain characteristics change or remain the same
during development.
Cross-Sectional Study - ANS✅✅Research method in which data is collected from groups of
participants of different ages and compared so that conclusions can be drawn about differences due
to age.
Wilhelm Wundt - ANS✅✅Considered the "Father of Psychology". Created the first lab for
psychological research. Developed the process of introspection.
William James - ANS✅✅One of the founders of American psychology, he thought that human
consciousness should be studied as a whole; a theory known as Structuralism.
Sigmund Freud - ANS✅✅The "Father of Psychoanalysis. he developed one of the first
comprehensive theories of personality. Believed that behavior is determined by unconscious forces
that are rooted in childhood experiences.
Ivan Pavlov - ANS✅✅Russian scientist credited with discovering classical conditioning (learned
through involuntary associations); "Pavlov's Dogs"
