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Psychology 101 Exam 1 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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- Psychology 101
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Psychology 101 Exam 1 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Psychology 101 Exam 1 Questions And AnswersLatest Update
Psychology - ANS The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior
Where did psychology branch out from? - ANS Physiology and Philosophy
Structuralism - ANS Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not
identified with anymore)
2 Structuralists - ANS Wundt and Titchener
Functionalism - ANS Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt
to their environment (not identified with anymore)
2 Functionalists - ANS Darwin and James
3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena - ANS Theoretical
Propositions, Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation
Modern Perspectives - ANS Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary
, Psychodynamic - ANS started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or
prove because of small sample size
Behaviorist - ANS Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts of
environmental events; experiment
Behaviorist Metaphor - ANS People are like machines
Cognitive - ANS Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve
information (Perspective)
Cognitive Metaphor - ANS Brain like a computer
Evolutionary - ANS Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our
ancestors survive
Evolutionary Metaphor - ANS runners in a race
Biopsychology - ANS Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline)
Developmental psychology - ANS How thought, feeling, and behavior develops
through life span
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