Psychology Exam test queries and
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Psychology - ANS✅✅The science of behavior and mental processes
Positive Psychology - ANS✅✅A field of research that focuses on people's positive experiences and
characteristics, such as happiness, optimism, and resilience.
Biological Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who analyze the biological factors influencing
behavior and mental processes.
Developmental Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who seek to understand, describe, and
explore how behavior and mental processes change over a lifetime.
Cognitive Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who study the mental processes underlying
judgment, decision making, problem solving, imagining, and other aspects of human thought or
cognition. Also called experimental psychologists.
Clinical And Counseling Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who seek to assess, understand, and
change abnormal behavior.
Educational Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who study methods by which instructors teach
and students learn and who apply their results to improving those methods
School Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who test IQ's, diagnose students' academic problems,
and set up programs to improve students' achievement
Forensic Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who assist in jury selection, evaluate defendants
mental competence to stand trial, and deal with other issues involving psychology and the law.
Psychodynamic Approach - ANS✅✅A view developed by Freud that emphasizes the interplay of
unconscious mental processes in determining human thought, feelings, and behavior.
, Behavioral Approach - ANS✅✅An approach to psychology emphasizing that human behavior is
determined mainly by what a person has learned, especially from rewards and punishments.
Critical Thinking - ANS✅✅The process of assessing claims and making judgments on the basis of
well-supported evidence.
Hypothesis - ANS✅✅In scientific research, a prediction stated as a specific, testable proposition
about a phenomenon.
Variable - ANS✅✅A factor or characteristic that is manipulated or measured in research
Theory - ANS✅✅An integrated set of propositions that can be used to account for, predict, and
even suggest ways of controlling certain phenomena
Naturalistic Observation - ANS✅✅The process of watching without interfering as a phenomenon
occurs in the natural environment.
Case Study - ANS✅✅A research method involving the intensive examination of some phenomenon
in a particular individual, group, or situation.
Survey - ANS✅✅A research method that involves giving people questionnaires or special
interviews designed to obtain descriptions of their attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and intentions.
Control Group - ANS✅✅In an experiment, the group that receives no treatment or provides some
other baseline against which to compare the performance or response of the experimental group.
Independent Variable - ANS✅✅The variable manipulated by the researcher in an experiment.
Dependent Variable - ANS✅✅In an experiment, the factor affected by the independent variable.
Placebo - ANS✅✅A physical or psychological treatment that contains no active ingredient but
produces an effect because the person receiving it believes it will.
answers graded A+
Psychology - ANS✅✅The science of behavior and mental processes
Positive Psychology - ANS✅✅A field of research that focuses on people's positive experiences and
characteristics, such as happiness, optimism, and resilience.
Biological Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who analyze the biological factors influencing
behavior and mental processes.
Developmental Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who seek to understand, describe, and
explore how behavior and mental processes change over a lifetime.
Cognitive Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who study the mental processes underlying
judgment, decision making, problem solving, imagining, and other aspects of human thought or
cognition. Also called experimental psychologists.
Clinical And Counseling Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who seek to assess, understand, and
change abnormal behavior.
Educational Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who study methods by which instructors teach
and students learn and who apply their results to improving those methods
School Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who test IQ's, diagnose students' academic problems,
and set up programs to improve students' achievement
Forensic Psychologists - ANS✅✅Psychologists who assist in jury selection, evaluate defendants
mental competence to stand trial, and deal with other issues involving psychology and the law.
Psychodynamic Approach - ANS✅✅A view developed by Freud that emphasizes the interplay of
unconscious mental processes in determining human thought, feelings, and behavior.
, Behavioral Approach - ANS✅✅An approach to psychology emphasizing that human behavior is
determined mainly by what a person has learned, especially from rewards and punishments.
Critical Thinking - ANS✅✅The process of assessing claims and making judgments on the basis of
well-supported evidence.
Hypothesis - ANS✅✅In scientific research, a prediction stated as a specific, testable proposition
about a phenomenon.
Variable - ANS✅✅A factor or characteristic that is manipulated or measured in research
Theory - ANS✅✅An integrated set of propositions that can be used to account for, predict, and
even suggest ways of controlling certain phenomena
Naturalistic Observation - ANS✅✅The process of watching without interfering as a phenomenon
occurs in the natural environment.
Case Study - ANS✅✅A research method involving the intensive examination of some phenomenon
in a particular individual, group, or situation.
Survey - ANS✅✅A research method that involves giving people questionnaires or special
interviews designed to obtain descriptions of their attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and intentions.
Control Group - ANS✅✅In an experiment, the group that receives no treatment or provides some
other baseline against which to compare the performance or response of the experimental group.
Independent Variable - ANS✅✅The variable manipulated by the researcher in an experiment.
Dependent Variable - ANS✅✅In an experiment, the factor affected by the independent variable.
Placebo - ANS✅✅A physical or psychological treatment that contains no active ingredient but
produces an effect because the person receiving it believes it will.
