Psychology 2301 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Psychology 2301 Collin College -TCC Psych 2301 1 Exam well answered to passWhat is psychology - correct answer scientific study of behavior and mental processes Areas in psychology? - correct answer Biology and Experimental, Clinical/Counseling, Industrial Organizational, Cognitive, Social/Personality, Educational, School, Developmental Degrees held in psychology? - correct answer MD-Psychologist, PsyD-Doctor of Psychology, PHD-Doctor of Socology, MA or MS-Masters Mental Health Counselor ...

Psychology 2301 Final Exam Review updated to pass define psychology - correct answer the scientific study of mind and behavior define the scientific method and explain how it is used in psychology - correct answer scientific method: is the set of assumptions, rules, and procedures scientists collect, organize, and draw conclusions from data data: information collected through formal observation or measurement what are the major schools of thought and theoretical perspectives in psyc...

Psychology 2301 Chapter 1 Latest Update Graded A+ Psychology The scientific study of behavior and mental processes Critical Thinking The process of objectively evaluating, comparing, analyzing, and synthesizing information. Psychoanalytic Perspective An approach to understanding behavior and mental processes developed by Freud, which focuses on unconscious processes and unresolved conflicts. Psychodynamic Perspective An approach to understanding behavior and metal processes that...

Psychology 2301 Collin College -PSYC 2301: Exam 1 Review updated to passKinds of Information - correct answer Belief vs Knowledge: - Belief -- propositions unsupported by facts - Knowledge -- propositions supported by facts Opinion vs fact: - Opinion -- inherently involves interpretation - Facts -- involves an objective, real observation Sources of Information: Intuition - correct answer Intuition is a source of belief, not information - Sometimes involves a hard-to-track-down sou...

Psychology 2301 Collin College -Psychology 2301 MidtermStructuralist View of Consciousness - correct answer Break consciousness down to the lowest level Functionalist View of Consciousness - correct answer Consciousness is a stream of thought Behaviorist View of Consciousness - correct answer No consciousness Modern View of Consciousness - correct answer Awareness of surrounding and how things are connected together Elements of Consciousness - correct answer Attention, selective, lim...

Psychology 2301 Exam 1 questions with 100% correct answersCritical thinking is ______. - correct answer Active application of a set of skills to understand and evaluate information. Psychology refers to _____. - correct answer The scientific study of the mind. The empirical method of study is based on _____. - correct answer Observation. When was psychology accepted as an academic discipline? - correct answer Late 1800s Who was the first person referred to as a psychologist? - corre...

Psychology 2301 Collin College -psyc 2301 exam 1 vocabPsychology - correct answer the scientific study of behavior and mental process The field of psychology studies: - correct answer both healthy and unhealthy behavior; both observable and unobservable behavior j Aristotle - correct answer Influence of Philosophy: wrote of sleep, dreams, memory, mankind and learning Descartes - correct answer influence of philosophy: dualism-mind of brain are two separate entities Locke - correct an...

Psychology 2301 exam 3 with 100% correct answers what are the 3 memory processes - correct answer encoding storage retrieval encoding - correct answer process of transforming what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory storage - correct answer the process of maintaining information in memory over time retrieval - correct answer the process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored 3 stages of memory - correct answer sensory memory sh...

psychology 2301 exam 2 (Blinn Meyer) correctly answered graded A+Consciousness: - correct answer A person's subjective experience of the world and the mind. Where did Descartes believe the "seat of the soul" was located? - correct answer Descartes imagined that the seat of the soul—and consciousness—might reside in pineal gland located in the ventricles of the brain. Does brain activity precede conscious will to act, or does it only come after? - correct answer people make the decis...

Psychology 2301Define psychology - correct answer The scientific study of behavior and mental processes Define the scientific method - correct answer the orderly, systematic procedures that researchers follow as they identify a research problem, design a study to investigate a problem, collect & analyze data, draw conclusions, and communicate their findings Explain how the scientific method is used in psychology - correct answer The scientific method has enabled psychologists to accumulate...