Psychology Exam test queries and answers graded A+

Psychology Exam test queries and
answers graded A+
Psychology - ANS✅✅the scientific study of behavior and mental processes



Applied Research - ANS✅✅designed to solve specific problems



Basic Research - ANS✅✅pure science, used to find new information



Fields of Psychology - ANS✅✅clinical, consumer, rehabilitation, health, organizational (industrial)



Clinical Psychology - ANS✅✅most common psychological career; clinical psychologists use their
skills to promote health in groups and individuals



Consumer Psychology - ANS✅✅study why people buy certain products over others



Rehabilitation Psychology - ANS✅✅help those who have been involved in an accident or have
been ill



Health Psychology - ANS✅✅find ways to prevent disease and promote good health



Organizational (Industrial) Psychology - ANS✅✅try to apply psychology to help business and
organizations operate



Types of Psychologists - ANS✅✅cognitive, social, neuropsychologist, behaviorist, humanist,
psychoanalysis



Cognitive Psychologists - ANS✅✅focus on how people think - how they take in, process, store, and
retrieve information (Jean Piaget)



Social Psychologists - ANS✅✅study group dynamics and how behaviors and attitudes influence
others

, Neuropsychologists - ANS✅✅explore how the brain works



Behaviorists - ANS✅✅only study observable behaviors, not mental processes



Humanists - ANS✅✅focus on the stuff of conscious experience, a person's freedom to choose, and
the capacity for personal growth



Psychoanalysts - ANS✅✅practitioners using Freud's theory of personality and psychoanalysis-a
therapeutic technique that attempts to provide insight into thoughts and actions by exposing and
interpreting the underlying unconscious motives and conflicts



Ivan Pavlov - ANS✅✅behaviorist, learning theorist famous for discovery of classical conditioning



Jean Piaget - ANS✅✅development and cognitive psychologist known for his studies of children's
thought processes



William Wundt - ANS✅✅founder of modern psychology



E.B. Tichener - ANS✅✅founder of structuralism (theory that the structure of conscious experience
could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of thoughts and sensations)



William James - ANS✅✅first American psychologist and author of the first psychology textbook



Sigmund Freud - ANS✅✅founder of psychoanalysis



Neuron - ANS✅✅a nerve cell, receives/carries information



All-or-None Response - ANS✅✅if a neuron fires, it will fire at same intensity every time



Sequence of Transmission - ANS✅✅dendrite, cell body, axon, synapse



Dendrites - ANS✅✅receive messages from other cells