PSYCH 101 final JMU UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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PSYCH 101
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PSYCH 101
PSYCH 101 final JMU UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Formed by combining ____________ and _______________ - CORRECT ANSWER-
philosophy and physiology
structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER- how we do something/ how things work
reductionism - CORRECT ANSWER- reducing things to thei...
PSYCH 101 final JMU UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Formed by combining ____________ and _______________ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
philosophy and physiology
structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- how we do something/ how things work
reductionism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- reducing things to their parts
functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- why something works as a whole/why is it
there/what does it do for us
Freud's contribution to functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the concept of
unconscious
behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- break behavior down to smallest part
Skinner - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- radical behaviorism
radical behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- society determines peoples behavior so
teach people to be good citizens
Rogers and Maslow - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- humanism
humanism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- people are unique
emphasis on personal growth and fulfilling potential
free will
,cognitive psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1960s
study of mental processes
how we process information and how it influences our behavior
evolutionary psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- natural selection
DNA determines behavior
psychiatry - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- can give medicine
medical degree
clinical psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- severe mental/emotional issues
basic counseling
developmental psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- womb to tomb
people change and are influenced over time
study of change and continuity over time
social psychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- why do people do what they do
how are people influenced
used scientific methods to understand and explain how behavior thoughts and feelings of
individuals interact
population - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- complete group you want study to apply to
sample - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- everyone in the experiment that you're studying
conclusions made based on sample represent the population
, random - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- everyone in population has an even chance to be in
study
goal is to generalize accurately
random assignment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- equal chance to be put in groups
operational definitions of variables - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- different people will explain
their experience differently leading to different results
validity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- how well does procedure actually measure the variable
being studied
relibality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- are the same results obtained with repeated
measurements
naturalistic observation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- observing behavior in its natural
context
allows for real life behavior
lacks control, participants might not react, observer bias
case study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- intense observation of 1 person or a small group
allows for rich data
doesn't allow representativeness
surveys - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- efficient, quick and cheap
question bias and truthfulness of answers
experiments - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- need at least 2 groups: experimental and control
control group is getting the thing
dependent/independent variables
allows for control and discovering cause and effect
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