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Psy 105 UNCW Meyers Exam 1Psychology - correct answer ✔✔the scientific (empirical) study of behavior and mental processes
Psychology seeks to: - correct answer ✔✔Describe behavior and mental processes
Understand
Predict
Modify
Subdisciplines of Psych - correct answer ✔✔Human Developmental/Family
Cognitive/Psycholinguistics
Developmental/Child
Industrial/Organizational
Personality-Social
Clinical and counseling psych are very similar in their day to day.
Psychological Disciplines
Learning: - correct answer ✔✔rewards and consequences
Psychological Disciplines
Personality/social: - correct answer ✔✔how social interactions influence behavior
Psychological Disciplines
Cognitive: - correct answer ✔✔beliefs, memory, reasoning and problem solving
Psychological Disciplines
, Behavioral neuroscience: - correct answer ✔✔how brain, mind and behavior interact w/ environment
Evolutionary psychology
Psychological Disciplines
clinical/counseling: - correct answer ✔✔diagnosis and treatment of mental/emotional/behavioral
disorders
Psychological Disciplines
Educational: - correct answer ✔✔learning and teaching
Psychological Disciplines
Forensic: - correct answer ✔✔Psychology, law, and criminal justice
Psychological Disciplines
Industrial/Organizational: - correct answer ✔✔Psychology in the workplace
Psychological Disciplines
Developmental: - correct answer ✔✔How our species develops
Psychological Disciplines
Health: - correct answer ✔✔How psychological factors influence health, illness and health habits
The limbic system - correct answer ✔✔the emotional part of your brain. Information is processed there
first.
What percent of how we act is based off of our personality? - correct answer ✔✔9% of how we act is
based off of our personality. The rest is based off of our environment and the social cues we observe
around us.
physics: - correct answer ✔✔studies physical properties of light and sound
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