Study Guide - Chapter 1

Question 1

Physiological

Answer 1

Referring to the body and its systems

Question 2

Scientific method

Answer 2

This involves forming hypotheses, conducting experiments, and analyzing results. It ensures findings are reliable and valid.

Question 3

Theory

Answer 3

Formulation for relationships among observed findings in ways that make them understandable

Question 4

How is psychology connected to the natural sciences?

Answer 4

Explanation for human behavior

Question 5

Who proposed that the mind and body are linked?

Answer 5

Rene Descartes

Question 6

Who came up with Gestalt psychology?

Answer 6

Max Wertheimer

Question 7

Who came up with the psychoanalytic approach to psychology?

Answer 7

Sigmund Freud

Question 8

Social psychology

Answer 8

how individuals affect and are affected by other people and by their environments

Question 9

Forensic psychology do and scenario

Answer 9

the application of scientific knowledge and methods to help answer legal questions arising in criminal, civil, contractual, or other judicial proceedings

Question 10

Health psychology

Answer 10

examines how biological, social and psychological factors influence health and illness

Question 11

APA

Answer 11

American Psychological Association

Question 12

Hypothesis

Answer 12

A precise prediction about the outcomes of an experiment

Question 13

Applied research

Answer 13

solving real world problems

Question 14

Who came up with Functionalism?

Answer 14

William James

Question 15

What do Educational psychologist?

Answer 15

Study how people learn

Question 16

Who came up with Introspection and what is it?

Answer 16

Wilhelm Wundt
When you look inside yourself to understand things

Question 17

Empirical data

Answer 17

information acquired by scientists through experimentation and observation

Question 18

who is the Grandfather of psychoanalytical approach?

Answer 18

Sigmund Frued

Question 19

Who is the Grandfather of behavioral approach

Answer 19

John B. Watson

Question 20

Who terrorized “Baby Albert”?

Answer 20

John B Watson did an experiment making a child scared of white rat

Question 21

1st laboratory where and by whom

Answer 21

Wilhelm Wundt
Leipzig, Germany

Question 22

Double blind study

Answer 22

When neither the participants nor the researcher know who is the control or experimental group

Question 23

Random assignment

Answer 23

every participant having an equal chance of being in either the experimental group or the control group