What is Psychology

Question 1

Psyche

Answer 1

• soul or mind

Question 2

Logos

Answer 2

• word

Question 3

What is Psychology?

Answer 3

• is the systematic study of behavior and experience

Question 4

What are the General points about Psychology?

Answer 4

• It depends
• Progress depends on good measurement
• Confidence should depend on the strength of evidence

Question 5

What are the Three Major Philosophical Issues

Answer 5

1. Free will versus Determinism
2. The mind-brain problem
3. The nature-nurture issue

Question 6

It is the idea that everything that happens has has a cause

Answer 6

• Determinism

Question 7

An ability to make choices, but your will is the product of your heredity and experiences.

Answer 7

• Free will

Question 8

What is it? that in everything that you do has a cause but your behavior should be predictable

Answer 8

• Free will versus determinism

Question 9

What are the 2 views in Mind-Brain problem?

Answer 9

1. Dualism

2. Monism

Question 10

True or False

Dualism means that the mind is separate from the body but somehow controls the brain and the body

Answer 10

• True

Question 11

It says here that the mind activity or consciousness is inseparable from the physical brain

Answer 11

• Monism

Question 12

Also called the “heredity-environment issue”

Answer 12

• Nature-Nurture issue

Question 13

Psychologists are service providers to whom?

Answer 13

1. to individuals
2. to organization
3. in teaching and research

Question 14

It is the degree in Psychology with a specialty in understanding and helping people with psychological problems.

Answer 14

• Clinical Psychology

Question 15

What is a Psychiatrist?

Answer 15

They are medical doctors who can prescribe drugs whereas most psychologists cannot do.

Question 16

What do you call this type people who are therapy providers and rely heavily on the theories and methods pioneered by Sigmund Freud?

Answer 16

• Psychoanalysts

Question 17

Clinical Social Worker is similar to a clinical psychologist but with different with?

Answer 17

• Training

Has a master’s degree on social work

Question 18

It is the type of Psychologists wherein they has a doctorate degree of PhD, PsyD or EdD with supervised experience in counseling?

Answer 18

• Counseling Psychologist

Question 19

Type of Psychologist who provides evidence and consultation to police, lawyers and courts?

Answer 19

• Forensic Psychologist

Question 20

They deals with such issues as hiring the right person for a job, training people for jobs and organizing workplace.

Answer 20

• Industrial Organization Psychologists

Question 21

They attempts to facilitate the operation of machinery so that ordinary people can use it safely.

Answer 21

• Human Factors Specialist

Question 22

They are psychologist who provide services to military in many ways , What do you call them?

Answer 22

• Military Psychologists

Question 23

What does School Psychologists do?

Answer 23

• They are specialists in the psychological condition of students, usually kindergarten through 12th grade.

Question 24

They are the type of Psychologists who studies behavior changes from womb to tomb

Answer 24

-Developmental Psychologists

Question 25

Cognitive Psychologists studies what processes?

Answer 25

- They study the process of cognition that means thought and knowledge.

Question 26

They explains the behavior in terms of biological factors such as genetic, nervous system, hormones, and evolutionary pressures, what type of psychologists are they?

Answer 26

- Biopsychologists

Question 27

An Evolutionary psychologists tries to explain behavior in terms of what?

Answer 27

- In terms of evolutionary history of the species .

Question 28

They are the one who studies on how an individual influences other people and how the group influences an individual.

Answer 28

- Social psychologists