Psychology FINAL

Question 1

What is the definition of psychology?

Answer 1

Psychology is the scientfic study of human behavior

Question 2

What are the goals of psychology?

Answer 2

To describe, predict, explain, and influence

Question 3

What did Wilhelm Wundt do?

Answer 3

Set up and used the first psych lab in Germany

Question 4

What did Sigmund Freud do?

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He studied the unconcious mind and how dreams worked

Question 5

Who was Pavlov?

Answer 5

Dog experiment

Question 6

What did Watson believe?

Answer 6

Psychology should only be about observable facts of behvior

Question 7

What did Skinner do?

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Concept of reinforcement

Question 8

Reinforcement

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Response to a beahvior that increases the chance that the new behavior will be repeated

Question 9

What is a case study?

Answer 9

Research that involves and intense investigation of participants

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What is naturalistic observation?

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Reserch method where the subject is studied in a natural setting where the psychologist does not interfere

Question 11

What is a survey?

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Research method in which information is obtained by asking a fixed set of questions to many people

Question 12

Correlation

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The relationship between 2 variables or sets of data

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Double blind experiment

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When neither the experimenter or the participants know who recieved the real treatment and which was a placebo

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Single blind experiment

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When only the participants are unaware of who recieved actual treatment

Question 15

Placebo effect

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A change in a participnts behavior that is from the belief that the treatment will have an effect. All in the mind.

Question 16

Neurons

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Long thin cells of nerve tissue that conveys messages to and from the brain

Question 17

Neurotransmitters

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Chemicals released by the neurons that determine at what reat the neurons fire

Question 18

Corpus Callosum

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Carries messages between the 2 hemispheres of the brain to control human functions

Question 19

Regions of the cerebral cortex

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Parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, frontal lobe, primary motor cortex, and primary somatosensory cortex

Question 20

Nature vs nurture

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Inherited vs environmental “outside” factors

Question 21

Hypnosis

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State of conciousness resultin from a narrowed focus of attention with heightened suggestibility

Question 22

Absolute threshold

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The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time

Question 23

Kinesthesis

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The sense of movement and body position

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Classical conditioning

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A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a neutral stimulus

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Operant conditioning

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Learning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished, resultin in corresponding increases or decreases in occurance

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Primary reinforcer

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Naturally rewarding stimilus like food or water

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Secondary reinforcer

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Stimulus that becomes rewarding through its link with its primary reinforcer like money

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Negative reinforcement

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Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs

Question 29

Avoidance Conditioning

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Training to withdraw from an unpleasant stimulus before it starts