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Major Field Test Questions with Verified Solutions John Watson is to Edward Titchener as ________ is to ________. observable behavior; inner sensations The fact that many happy and well-adjusted adults were once rebellious and unhappy as adolescents is most relevant to the issue of: stability or change You come home one night to find a burglar in your house. Your heart starts racing and you begin to perspire. These physical reactions are triggered by the: sympathetic nervous syste...

PSY120 - Exam 1 Question and answers 2024 verified to passPSY120 - Exam 1 Plato - correct answer The Ring of the Gyges Will a person be good or bad if given the opportunity to be either? Locke - correct answer tabula rasa (blank slate) children are born with blank slates and how they interact with their surroundings will determine who they will be The Mind-Body Problem - correct answer Descartes questioned how the mind is connected to the body / How do concepts, experiences, em...

Phrenology - correct answers We no longer use this. Feels for bumps and curves on the head in order to tell a persons intelligence or weakness, along with deviance and criminal possibility. the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities. Influence of psychology - correct answers Biology and philosophy Wilhelm Wundt - correct answers first psychological lab in 1879 studied basic mental processing, the mind Edward T...

Eugenics Founder o :## Galton Walter Cannon o :## fight or flight Solomon Asch o :## Conducted famous conformity experiment that required subjects to match lines. They said lines matched just to conform Genomic imprinting o :## Phenomenon by which certain genes are expressed in a parent-of-originspecific manner. If the allele inherited from the father is imprinted, it is thereby silenced, and only the allele from the mother is expressed. If the allele from the mother is imprinted, ...

Psychology - Scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. Answers philosophical questions about human nature. Uses methods borrowed from other disciplines. Wilhelm Wundt - German. Set up first psychology lab. Was a Structuralist. Studied how people sense and perceive world around them. Structualists - Believed that consciousness was made of basic elements. combined in different ways to produce different perceptions. They wanted to discover the form or elements of mental e...

What is cognition? correct answers The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, solving problems; our process of thinking and understanding What is cognitive psychology? correct answers Psychology is the science of behavior (things we can see, measure, and record) and mental processes (thoughts and feelings) and cognitive psychology is concerned with not only what we are thinking, but why and how we are thinking What are principle research areas of cog...

Introspectionism - Looking inside, it's the first thing you try when you want to know what's going on in your own head (reliable observations about what's going on in your head to figure out how things work) - dominant approach in late 1800's Wilhelm Wundt & Edward Titchener - Categorized thoughts in terms of introspectionism (organ, # of sensations) Problems with Introspectionism - 1. Is it reliable? Inner head thoughts can't be replicated or validated because it was just his thought...

PSY100 Test 1 | University of Toronto, Prof. Ashley Waggoner-Denton Latest Update Graded A+ Science The use of systematic observation to acquire knowledge. Systematic observation The careful observation of the natural world with the aim of better understanding it. Observations provide basic data that allow scientists to track, tally, and organize information about the natural world. Naturalistic Observation Passive observation. Observers do not change or alter ongoing behaviour (...

John Watson is to Edward Titchener as ________ is to ________. - ANSWER-observable behavior; inner sensations The fact that many happy and well-adjusted adults were once rebellious and unhappy as adolescents is most relevant to the issue of: - ANSWER-stability or change You come home one night to find a burglar in your house. Your heart starts racing and you begin to perspire. These physical reactions are triggered by the: - ANSWER-sympathetic nervous system Repeatedly washing your hand...

Chapter 01: Multiple Choice 2 Copyright Macmillan Learning. Powered by Cognero. Page 1 1. Psychologists attempt to let the facts speak for themselves by using an approach that is best described as a. empirical. b. psychodynamic. c. introspective. d. clinical. ANSWER: a 2. What is an evidence-based method that draws on both observation and experimentation? a. an empirical approach b. critical thinking c. structuralism d. functionalism ANSWER: a 3. What does it mean to use an empiric...