Psychology 101 Exam 1 / Comprehensive Practice Test Study Guide Newest Actual Questions & Answers (A+ Guide Solutions.Psychology - Answer: The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior
Structuralism - Answer: Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not identified with anymore)
2 Structuralists - Answer: Wundt and Titchener
Functionalism - Answer: Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt to their environment (not identified with anymore)
2 Functionalists - Answer: Darwin and James
- Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena - Answer: Theoretical Propositions,
Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation Modern Perspectives - Answer: Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary Psychodynamic - Answer: started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or prove because of small sample size 1 / 2
Behaviorist - Answer: Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts of environmental events; experiment
Behaviorist Metaphor - Answer: People are like machines
Cognitive - Answer: Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve information (Perspective)
Cognitive Metaphor - Answer: Brain like a computer
Evolutionary - Answer: Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our ancestors survive
Evolutionary Metaphor - Answer: runners in a race
Biopsychology - Answer: Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline) Developmental psychology - Answer: How thought, feeling, and behavior develops through life span Social Psychology - Answer: Influence of real or imagined others influence on the individual Industrial/Organizational Psychology - Answer: Human behavior within an organization as well as organizational problems (sub-discipline) Educational Psychology - Answer: Psychological processes in learning environments (sub- discipline)
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