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PSY 200 - Psychology Chapter 1 Test Questions andAnswers 2024 Update
How is Psychology defined? - (correct answer) -Psychology is defined as the scientific study of the human mind and behavior.
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What is a hypothesis? - (correct answer) -A hypothesis is a testable prediction about how the world will behave if our idea is
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correct.
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What is an empirical method? - (correct answer) -Empirical method is based on evidence. Uses observations and experiments
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to reach a conclusion and test a hypothesis.
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When did Psychology become accepted as its own academic discipline? - (correct answer) -1879
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What does critical thinking mean? - (correct answer) -Critical thinking uses objective analysis and evaluations in order to form
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a judgement.
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Who is Wilhelm Wundt? - (correct answer) -German. First psychologist. Given credit for the beginning of modern scientific
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Psychology in 1879. Had the first Psychology lab at the University in Leipzig.
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What did Wundt and his students experiment on? - (correct answer) -Introspection and Structuralism.
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What is Introspection? - (correct answer) -Introspection lets one examine one's own conscious.
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What is Structuralism? - (correct answer) -Structuralism attempts to understand the structure of the mind and how it works.
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What is Functionalism? - (correct answer) -Functionalism studies the functions of the brains and the behaviors that go along
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with that.
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Who was William James? - (correct answer) -Set up the first psychological lab in the US and was the first American
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psychologist. He relied on more objective measures than Wundt did.
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Who was Freud? - (correct answer) -Austrian Neurologist. Focused on the unconscious mind.
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What is the name of the field of Psychology that Freud founded? - (correct answer) -Psychoanalytic Theory.
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What is Gestalt Psychology? - (correct answer) -Studies how various parts of a sensory experience come together as a whole.
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What is the main premise of Gestalt Psychology? - (correct answer) -"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
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What area of Psychology continues to be influenced by Gestalt? - (correct answer) -Experimental.
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Define the behavioral approach to Psychology? - (correct answer) -Behavioral Psychology focuses on observing and controlling
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behavior.
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Who was Ivan Pavlov? - (correct answer) -Credited for early work in behavioral psychology with the discovery of classical
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conditioning.
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What is classical conditioning? - (correct answer) -A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired.
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