Psychology: History and Research Methods

Question 1

What is Psychology

Answer 1

The science of the mind and behavior

Question 2

Science

Answer 2

Uses evidence to reason about possible causes of a phenomenon, tests resulting ideas by collecting additional facts, and refute them

Question 3

Mind

Answer 3

what the brain does when you are thinking or feeling

Question 4

Level of the brain

Answer 4

Events that involve the activity, structure, properties of the organ itself-brain cells and their connections, the chemical solutions in which they exist, and the genes

Question 5

Level of the person

Answer 5

events that involve the function and content of the mind

Question 6

Mental contents

Answer 6

knowledge, beliefs, desires, and feelings

Question 7

Mental processes

Answer 7

sets of operations that work together to carry out a function, such as attention, perception, or memory

Question 8

Level of the group

Answer 8

events that involve relationships between people, relationships among groups, and culture

Question 9

Are the brain and the mind the same thing?

Answer 9

No