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4 goals of psychology - correct answers describe how people and animals behave, understand and explain the causes of behavior, predict behaviors/reactions across situations, control behavior through understanding its causes and consequences Wilhelm Wundt - correct answers established first psychological lab, analyzed consciousness and structuralism William James - correct answers built on the principles of introspection & the study of conscious experiences, but instead focused on the why a...

what is psychological activation, such as increased brain activity, autonomic responses, sweating or muscle tension? - correct answers arousal what is psychological state that motivates an organism to satisfy its needs? - correct answers drive what is the tendency for bodily functions to maintain equilibrium? - correct answers homeostasis what law states that performance increases with arousal (or stress) up to an optimal point and then decreases with increasing arousal (stress)? - corr...

biological psychology - correct answers a branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior (ex. genetics, hormones) Behaviorial Psychology - correct answers the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning (ex. body image, phobias, Watson, exposure therapy) psychodynamic psychology - correct answers a branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to tre...

motivation - correct answers balance between what your body naturally wants to do and your experiences and nurture arousal - correct answers the state of being awake, alert, and attentive drive reduction theory - correct answers homeostasis, reduce the drive, pulled by incentives what is an example of drive reduction theory - correct answers eating when you are hungry arousal theory - correct answers you want to have some degree of arousal too much = fear not enough = boredom w...

Psychology - correct answers scientific study of the mind, brain and behavior. Pseudoscience - correct answers set of claims that see scientific but aren't. Lack safeguard against conservation bias and belief perseverance that characterize science. 6 principles of scientific theory - correct answers 1. ruling out rival hypotheses 2. correlation vs. causation 3. falsifiability 4. replicability 5. extraordinary claims 6. Ocam's razor 5 great theoretical frame works - correct answers 1. ...

A researcher hypothesizes that college students who don't eat breakfast will also be overweight. She knows she needs to be careful that she doesn't just search for evidence that fits her beliefs and ignore contradicting evidence. This researcher is wary of: - correct answers Confirmation bias George is working on improving his GPA. He is a Psych 111 student and is excited to be studying more effective ways of learning. According to what George would have learned in this module, which of the...

Wilhelm Wundt - correct answers created the term "psychology", godfather of psych structuralism - correct answers analyze consciousness into basic elements and investigate how they're related introspection - correct answers careful self-evaluation of conscious experience functionalism - correct answers investigate function of purpose of consciousness rather than structure natural selection - correct answers some variation due to enviornment genotype variation - correct answers ...

Learning - correct answers Any relative permanent change in behavior that occurs because of experience Conditioning - correct answers A kind of learning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and responses Classical Conditioning (Pavlov) - correct answers The organism learns to associate two stimuli; one produces a response that originally was only produce by the other Unconditioned Stimulus (US) - correct answers Elicits the unconditioned response Unconditioned Res...

Which of the early psychological movements was William James most associated with? - correct answers functionalism This legal term is the process of explaining the purpose, risks, benefits, and procedures of a study to participants to make sure that they know what you are doing before you collect data: - correct answers informed consent If you are interested in classical and operant conditioning, then you might be interested in this psychological perspective that included work by B.F. Skin...

behavior/behaviorism - correct answers Discovered by John Watson. The school of psychology that holds that psychology should limit itself to the study of overt, observable behavior. What did Plato and Descarte have in common? - correct answers They were dualists, thought the mind and body was separate What did Greek philosophers attribute observations - correct answers naturalistic explanation Who is the father of structuralism - correct answers Wilhelm Wundt Who was the first psycho...