Psych 100 PSU 16' Crosby Exam 1 With 100% Correct Answers 2025/2026 (Graded A+)

Psych 100 PSU 16' Crosby Exam 1 With 100% Correct Answers 2025/2026 (Graded A+) Wilhelm Wundt - answer-established the first psychology lab at the University of Leipzig, Germany; "Father of Psychology" Structuralism - answer-early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Tichener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind Functionalism - answer-early school of thought promoted by James and influenced by Darwin; explored how metal and behavioral processes function-- how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish John B. Watson - answer-Dismissed introspection and redefined psychology as " the scientific study of observable behavior"; Worked with Rosalie Rayner on controversial experiment on baby coined as "Little Albert" Behaviorism - answer-the view that psychology(1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior w/o reference to mental processes. Most psychologist today agree with (1) but not (2). Psychology - answer-the science of behavior and mental processes Sigmund Freud - answer-controversial ideas of this framed personality theorist and therapist have influenced humanity's self-understanding Case Study - answer-a descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principlesControl Group - answer-the group in an experiment or study that does not receive treatment by the researchers and is then used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do Correlation - answer-a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together; and thus how well either factor predicts the other Dependent Variable - answer-in an experiment the outcome that is measured; the variable that may change when the independent variable is manipulated Independent variable - answer-in an experiment, the factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied Hypothesis - answer-testable prediction, often implied by a theory