Psychology Exam test questions and
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Biopsychosocial Model - ANS✅✅An approach to explaining behavior as a product of biological,
psychological, and sociocultural factors.
Pseudoscience - ANS✅✅Ideas that are presented as science but actually do not utilize basic
principles of scientific thinking or procedure.
Psychology - ANS✅✅The scientific study of behavior, thought, and experience.
Behaviorism - ANS✅✅The dominant approach to psychology in the United States starting in the
first half of the 20th century, which had a singular focus on studying only observable behavior, with
little to no reference to mental events or instincts as possible causes of behavior.
Clinical Psychology - ANS✅✅The field of psychology concerned with diagnosing and treating
mental and behavioral disorders.
Determinism - ANS✅✅The belief that all events are governed by lawful, cause-and-effect
relationships.
Empiricism - ANS✅✅A philosophical tenet that knowledge comes through experience.
Functionalism - ANS✅✅The study of the purpose and function of behavior and conscious
experience.
Gestalt psychology - ANS✅✅An approach emphasizing that psychologists need to focus on the
whole of perception and experience, rather than its parts.
Humanistic Psychology - ANS✅✅A perspective of psychology that focuses on the unique aspects of
each individual human, their freedom to act, their rationale thought, and the belief that humans are
fundamentally different from other animals.
, Materialism - ANS✅✅The belief that humans, and other living beings, are composed exclusively of
physical matter.
Nature and Nurture Relationships - ANS✅✅The inquiry into how heredity (nature) and
environment (nurture) influence behavior and mental processes.
Psychoanalysis - ANS✅✅An approach developed by Sigmund Freud and his associates that
attempts to explain how behavior and personality are influenced by unconscious processes.
Pyschophysics - ANS✅✅The study of how physical energy such as light and sound and their
intensity relate to psychological experience.
Structuralism - ANS✅✅An attempt to analyze conscious experience by breaking it down into basic
elements, and to understand how these elements work together.
Zeitgeist - ANS✅✅A general set of beliefs of a particular culture at a specific time in history.
Applied Psychology - ANS✅✅A branch of psychology that uses psychological knowledge to address
problems and issues across various settings and professions, including law, education, clinical
psychology, and business organization and management.
Forensic Psychology - ANS✅✅The branch of psychology that encompasses work in the criminal
justice system, including interactions with the legal system and its professionals.
Health Psychology - ANS✅✅The study of how individual, biological, and environmental factors
affect physical health.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology - ANS✅✅A branch of applied psychology in which
psychologists work for businesses and other organizations to improve employee productivity and the
organizational structure of the company or business.
Psychiatry - ANS✅✅A branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of mental and behavioral
disorders.
School Psychology - ANS✅✅A branch of psychology that involves work with students with special
needs,such as emotional, social, or academic problems.
answers graded A+
Biopsychosocial Model - ANS✅✅An approach to explaining behavior as a product of biological,
psychological, and sociocultural factors.
Pseudoscience - ANS✅✅Ideas that are presented as science but actually do not utilize basic
principles of scientific thinking or procedure.
Psychology - ANS✅✅The scientific study of behavior, thought, and experience.
Behaviorism - ANS✅✅The dominant approach to psychology in the United States starting in the
first half of the 20th century, which had a singular focus on studying only observable behavior, with
little to no reference to mental events or instincts as possible causes of behavior.
Clinical Psychology - ANS✅✅The field of psychology concerned with diagnosing and treating
mental and behavioral disorders.
Determinism - ANS✅✅The belief that all events are governed by lawful, cause-and-effect
relationships.
Empiricism - ANS✅✅A philosophical tenet that knowledge comes through experience.
Functionalism - ANS✅✅The study of the purpose and function of behavior and conscious
experience.
Gestalt psychology - ANS✅✅An approach emphasizing that psychologists need to focus on the
whole of perception and experience, rather than its parts.
Humanistic Psychology - ANS✅✅A perspective of psychology that focuses on the unique aspects of
each individual human, their freedom to act, their rationale thought, and the belief that humans are
fundamentally different from other animals.
, Materialism - ANS✅✅The belief that humans, and other living beings, are composed exclusively of
physical matter.
Nature and Nurture Relationships - ANS✅✅The inquiry into how heredity (nature) and
environment (nurture) influence behavior and mental processes.
Psychoanalysis - ANS✅✅An approach developed by Sigmund Freud and his associates that
attempts to explain how behavior and personality are influenced by unconscious processes.
Pyschophysics - ANS✅✅The study of how physical energy such as light and sound and their
intensity relate to psychological experience.
Structuralism - ANS✅✅An attempt to analyze conscious experience by breaking it down into basic
elements, and to understand how these elements work together.
Zeitgeist - ANS✅✅A general set of beliefs of a particular culture at a specific time in history.
Applied Psychology - ANS✅✅A branch of psychology that uses psychological knowledge to address
problems and issues across various settings and professions, including law, education, clinical
psychology, and business organization and management.
Forensic Psychology - ANS✅✅The branch of psychology that encompasses work in the criminal
justice system, including interactions with the legal system and its professionals.
Health Psychology - ANS✅✅The study of how individual, biological, and environmental factors
affect physical health.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology - ANS✅✅A branch of applied psychology in which
psychologists work for businesses and other organizations to improve employee productivity and the
organizational structure of the company or business.
Psychiatry - ANS✅✅A branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of mental and behavioral
disorders.
School Psychology - ANS✅✅A branch of psychology that involves work with students with special
needs,such as emotional, social, or academic problems.
