Exam 1 Flashcards
Father of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
Watson/Skinner studied how animals and humans reacted
Behaviorism
Wilhelm Wundt added two key things to psychological science
Measured observations and experiments
Titchener, Wundt’s student, had people introspect about their sensations and was using this self-reported info to
Build a view of the mind’s structure: structuralism
Who established functionalism?
William James
Psycho. uses a biopsychosocial model to understand thoughts, emotion, behavior, as a result we believe that:
Nature and nurture explain psychological disorders, not always equally
Hindsight would explain..
“I knew they would break up! I always say, “Out of sight, out of mind”
Perceiving order error would explain..
The last three answers were “A” so the next answer is also “A”
Overconfidence error would explain..
“I am the smartest person among my friends.” , “I saw the suspect, he is six feet two inches tall.”
Besides the three charecteristics of a scientific attitude, critical thinking is important to becoming a scientist because..
you look for, hidden assumptions, consider other possible explanations, look for hidden biases
Name the charecteristics of a scientific attitude
Curiosity, skepticism, humility
In descriptive research, we observe people’s reactions while we do experiments with them
false
Frontal lobes
Speaking
Occipital lobes
Visual
Parietal lobes
sensory cortex
