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Test 1
Basic Psychology Chapter 1 and Chapter 3
Question | Answer |
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Define psychology. | Psychology is defined at the science of behavior and mental processes of both human beings and animals. |
What is the major problem with relying of folk wisdom or proverbs to explain behavior? | Folk wisdom and proverbs cannot be refuted because they account for any event. |
What is a characteristic of biased scientific investigation? | Researchers allow preconceptions to cloud their observations. |
Who is considered to be the father of psychology? | Wilhelm Wundt |
Who is associated with structuralism? | Edward B. Titchener |
Who was one of the earliest proponent's of functionalism? | William James |
What is structuralism? | Structuralism is the earliest approach in modern psychology; it's goal was to analyze the basic elements of conscious experience. |
What is functionalism? | Functionalism is the approach to psychology that focuses on the purposes of consciousness. |
What is bias? | A belief that interferes with objectivity. |
Explain the Law of Parsimony. | The principle that simple explanations of phenomena are preferred to complex explanations. |
Define the placebo effect. | In drug research, positive effects associated with a person's beliefs and attitudes about the drug, even when it contains no active ingredients. |
Define the faith effect. | A person's belief. If you believe something so strongly, you cause it to manifest in your own body. |
What is a example of the faith effect? | A hysterical pregnancy. |
What is the scientific method? | A system of investigation in which a person makes careful observations of phenomenon, provides theories to explain the phenomenon, makes hypotheses about future behavior, and then tests them through more research and observation. |
What is true about a good theory? | A good theory cannot be proven and disproven. |
What is a theory? | An explanation for a phenomenon based on observations. |
What is a case study? | A case study is an in-depth analysis of one person that can often provide suggestions for further research. |
Define naturalistic observation. | The study of behavior it it's typical setting, with no attempt to alter it. |
What is a negative side of naturalistic observation? | The lack of control of what is being observed. |
What is causal research? | Causal research says A causes B, as in every time A happens it causes B to happen. It does not correlate to psychology which is cognitive. |
What is correlational research? | The relationshp of events. |
What are research ethics? |