Psychology 1010 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1. What is Psychology? - Answer-The scientific study of behavior and mental processes(Hard vs. Soft science) -focuses on critical thinking (not just negative) and is scientific 1. Pseudopsychologies - Answer-unreliable approaches that do not use the scientific method -astrology, palmistry, psychokinesis, follicology 1.Psychology's Four Goals - Answer-1. Description: tells" what occurred" 2. Explanation: tells "why" a behavior or mental process occurred 3. Prediction: identifies condi...

1. What is Psychology? - Answer-The scientific study of behavior and mental processes(Hard vs. Soft science) -focuses on critical thinking (not just negative) and is scientific 1. Pseudopsychologies - Answer-unreliable approaches that do not use the scientific method -astrology, palmistry, psychokinesis, follicology 1.Psychology's Four Goals - Answer-1. Description: tells" what occurred" 2. Explanation: tells "why" a behavior or mental process occurred 3. Prediction: identifies condi...

Chapter 1 (science of Psychology) - AnswerPsychology - Answer-A scientific study of behavior and mental processes -Focuses on BOTH our outer actions and our inner actions -How we as humans think, feel, and act Wundt - Answer-"Father of psychology" -Established 1st psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany -Approach: Structuralism Structuralism and Wundt - Answer-Wilhelm Wundt's approach -Our consciousness can be broken down into the essential elements -Try to better understand the bas...

Psychology - Answer-Science which tries to explain why people act and think and feel as they do Wilhelm Wundt - Answer-Established laboratory setting Francis Galton - Answer-Established statistical analysis in psychology G. Stanley Hall - Answer-Founded American Psychological Association, started American psychology William James - Answer-American, Started functionalism Functionalism - Answer-Belief that psychology should study the function of consciousness, as opposed to studying the elem...

Psychology - Answer-Science which tries to explain why people act and think and feel as they do Wilhelm Wundt - Answer-Established laboratory setting Francis Galton - Answer-Established statistical analysis in psychology G. Stanley Hall - Answer-Founded American Psychological Association, started American psychology William James - Answer-American, Started functionalism Functionalism - Answer-Belief that psychology should study the function of consciousness, as opposed to studying the elem...

Central Nervous System - Answer-The brain and spinal cord Peripheral Nervous System - Answer-Links the CNS with the body's sensory receptors, muscles, and glands Somatic Nervous System - Answer-Enables voluntary control of muscles Automatic Nervous System - Answer-Controls the glands and muscles of internal organs. Functions non-conciously Sympathetic Nervous System - Answer-Part of the automatic nervous system. It arouses and expends energy Parasympathetic Nervous System - Answer-Part ...

The brain and spinal cord - Answer-Central Nervous System Links the CNS with the body's sensory receptors, muscles, and glands - Answer-Peripheral Nervous System Enables voluntary control of muscles - Answer-Somatic Nervous System Controls the glands and muscles of internal organs. Functions non-conciously - Answer-Automatic Nervous System Part of the automatic nervous system. It arouses and expends energy - Answer-Sympathetic Nervous System Part of the automatic nervous system. It calm...

Psychology 1010 exam 1 chapters 1-3 Psychology - Answer-the scientific study of thought and behavior Wilhelm Wundt - Answer-opened the first psychology laboratory in Germany, 1879 examined in detail the relationship between physiology and psychology Francis Galton - Answer-did not indetify as a psycologist cousin of Charles Darwin interest in individual differences, giftedness, and the influence of heredity pioneering statistician championed the eugenics movement Edward Titchener - Answ...

______________________ is an experiment in which participants do not know if they are in the experimental or the control group, and the experimenters also do not know which participants are part of which group. - Answer-The double-blind study Experimenters can justify the use of deception only if ___________. - Answer-it is necessary for the experiment to work, and participants are debriefed afterwards The goals of psychology are to _____. - Answer-describe, understand, predict, and control...

Psychology - Answer-the scientific study of thought and behavior Wilhelm Wundt - Answer-opened the first psychology laboratory in Germany, 1879 examined in detail the relationship between physiology and psychology Francis Galton - Answer-did not indetify as a psycologist cousin of Charles Darwin interest in individual differences, giftedness, and the influence of heredity pioneering statistician championed the eugenics movement Edward Titchener - Answer-student of Wundt structuralism W...