PSYCH 115 Midterm Exam Questions and 100% Correct Answers
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PSYC 115
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PSYC 115
What is psychology the scientific study of mind and behavior
What was the cognitive revolution understanding how people think, how knowledge is acquired, structured, stored and used
What was the biological revolution approaches the understanding of behavior by studying anatomy, physiology, and ph...
PSYCH 115 Midterm Exam Questions
and 100% Correct Answers
What is psychology ✅the scientific study of mind and behavior
What was the cognitive revolution ✅understanding how people think, how knowledge
is acquired, structured, stored and used
What was the biological revolution ✅approaches the understanding of behavior by
studying anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology
What is evolutionary psychology ✅explain behavior int arms of adaptation to changing
environment
What is behavioral genetics ✅examines the influence of genes in determining behavior
and psychological characteristics
What are dispositional factors ✅-internal
-genetic makeup, personality traits, attitudes and mental state
What are situational factors ✅-outside environment
-sensory stimulation, rewards, actions of others
What is the micro level of analysis ✅studying the detailed processes of behavior
What is the molecular level of analysis ✅-larger unit of observable behavior
What is the molar level of analysis ✅-large units of behavior of whole person in a
complex situation
IAT (implicit association test) ✅measures strength of association between two
concepts as an indirect measure of unconscious beliefs
What did we get from observing people at the mental hospital in Paris ✅-some
behavior may actually be a result of inner feelings, unconscious
What does freud develop as a result ✅psychoanalysis
What is animism ✅-the belief that inanimate objects have feelings too
--trees grow, theres an explanation that something what moving it
, Physiology and medicine focuses on the two studies of what ✅the body and the brain
Plato's approach to philosophy ✅-nativist
-the realm we live on was physical world but there was a non physical world made up of
math forms and truth
-our souls have been deceived by our senses
Plato believed in rationalism, what is rationalism ✅-if you wanted to get to truth you
needed to us logic, don't trust your senses
Deductive reasoning ✅if our premise is true and argument is valid, then the conclusion
HAS to be true
Aristotle's approach to philosophy ✅-empiricist
-believed reality was all on a physical plain
-believed in a super sense where they all come together
What is philosophical empiricism ✅we get the truth through senses and experience
What is methodological empiricism ✅we test things and run experiments and get
objective data
George miller and uric neisser ✅cognitive psychology
John watson and bf skinner ✅behaviorism
Freud ✅psychoanalytic
Carl rogers ✅humanistic
Max wertheimer and Wolfgang kohler ✅gestalt
Structualism ✅an experience can be analyzed by looking at the individual pieces that
make it up
Gestalt ✅experiences should not be broken down into their constituent parts
Cognitive ✅behavior is influenced by people's intelligence, memory, and thoughts
Functionalism ✅we have to understand how the mind has adapted to perform certain
tasks that allow us to survive
Psychoanalytic ✅behavior is influenced by conflicts in the unconscious mind
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