Saylor Academy Psych101 Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers
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Psych101
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Psych101
Saylor Academy Psych101 Exam Questions
With 100% Verified Answers
Eugenics - answerThe science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to
increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis
Galton as a method of improving the human race, i...
Psychoanalysis - answer✔Aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of
conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into
the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association.
Cognitivism - answer✔Study focusing on mental processes, including how people perceive,
think, remember, learn, solve problems, and direct their attention to one stimulus rather than
another. Psychologists working from a cognitivist perspective, then, seek to understand
cognition.
Q: What famous psychologist decided nearly 100 years ago that psychology should be defined as
the scientific study of behavior? - answer✔Watson
Q: Schizophrenia is a mental illness which - answer✔Affects about 1% of the population
Q: A study of how adults respond to a new therapy has a group with the new therapy fully
implemented, a group with the new therapy partially implemented, a group with the new therapy
not implemented at all, and a group considering implementation of the new therapy. Which
group would be best described as the control group? - answer✔Group with the new therapy not
implemented at all
Q: Considering a correlation represents a relationship between two variables, which phrase best
exemplifies a negative correlation (i.e., variables move in different directions)? - answer✔An
individual's level of stress and his or her degree of psychological well-being
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