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PY102 Exam #1
Study Guide for PY102 Exam #1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is psychology? | Psychology is the study of behavior and mental processes. |
| Who was Wilhelm Wundt? What did he do, and where, and when? | He is one of the founding fathers of psychology. He founded the first formal psychology lab. He did this in Germany, in 1879. |
| What is structuralism? | Structuralism is a school of thought that is based on the structure of consciousness. |
| What is Functionalism? | Functionalism is a school of thought that is based on belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular. |
| What is Behaviorism? | Behaviorism is a school of thought that is based on a theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns. |
| What is the Psychoanalytic theory? | The psychoanalytic theory is a theory made by Freud, that thoughts and emotion are controlled by the unconscious. |
| What is Humanism? | Humanism is a school of thought that believes humans are fundamentally good and have free-will. |
| What is the Biological perspective? | A psychological approach that emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts. |
| What is Evolutionary psychology? | Evolutionary psychology (EP) explains psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection |
| What is the Sociocultural theory? | a belief that higher-order functions, such as learning, grow out of social interaction. |
| Define Introspection | the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes. |
| Define Behavior | the way in which one acts or conducts oneself, esp. toward others |
| Define Unconscious | the part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but that affects behavior and emotions. |
| Define Cognition | the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. |
| Define Hypothesis | a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. |
| Define Variable | Anything that your observe or control in a study. |
| Define Operational definition | When you define a variable in terms of how to measure it. |
| Define theory | a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, esp. one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained |
| Define Experiment | a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact. |
| Define Random Assignment | When all study participants have an equal chance to be in a group. |
| Define Blinding (Single) | A testing procedure in which the administrators do not tell the subjects if they are being given a test treatment or a control treatment in order to avoid bias in the results. |
| Define Blind (Double) | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment. |
| Correlation (Positive) | Correlation is a statistical measurement of the relationship between two variables in a positive way. |
| Correlation (Negative) | Correlation is a statistical measurement of the relationship between two variables in a negative way. |
| What are the steps of the scientific method? | 1.Ask a Question 2.Construct a Hypothesis 3.Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment 4.Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion 5.Communicate Your Results |
| What factors should be considered when evaluating research? | Is the research bias and is it fair. |
| Describe 3 ethical issues in psychological research. | Consent to the experiment, privacy, and human rights. |
| Describe resting potential | Resting potential is the negative charge that an ion has when it is not stimulated. |
| Describe action potential | Action potential is brief change in charge that travels the length of the axon, when it is stimulated enough. |
| Describe postsynaptic potential | Postsynaptic potentials are changes in the membrane potential of the postsynaptic terminal of a chemical synapse. |
| Describe threshold potential | The threshold potential is the membrane potential to which a membrane must be depolarized to initiate an action potential. |
| Define the All-Or-Nothing-Law | The AP happens or it doesn't. |
| Define absolute refractory period | a refractory period is a period of time during which an organ or cell is incapable of repeating a particular action. |
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