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PSY 100

Exam 1

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What is Empirical Questions? Questions that can be answered by making objective observations
What is Skepticism? An explanation for a behavior is accepted only after other possible explanations have been ruled out
What is Critical Thinking? Thinking that examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and asses observations
What period was the Science of Mental Life Until the 1920's
When was the Science of Observable Behavior 1920-1960's
When was the Science of behavior and Mental Processes 1960-Today
What is behavior? Any action we can see
What is Mental Processes? Private events inferred from behavior
How is PSY a SCIENCE its a systematic way of asking questions about a certain phenomenon
What is Introspection Looking inside
What is prescientific PSY mind and body were two different things
What did Aristotle believe in? mind and body were the same and believed we are born with a blank slate
What is a blank slate Knowledge is learned
What did Descartes believe in? Mind and body are two separate entities; They may be separated but work together; Pineal Gland connects the mind and the body Believed in Innate ideas
What are Innate ideas? Born with knowledge
What is Rationalism? Knowledge should be sought through the process of logical reasoning
What is Tabula Rasa? Everything has to be learned from experience
What is Empiricism? All ideas and knowledge are gained empirically (through experience) Used in the scientific method still by experimenting Knowledge should be sought through observation
What did Locke believe in Tabula Rasa and Empiricism
When was Psy born? In 1879 by Wilhem Wundt
What did Wilhem Wundt do for Psy? First Psychology Lab Awareness and Reaction Time • Leipzig, Germany “Atoms of the Mind”
What is Structuralism? Edward Titchener- Wundt’s student Early school of psychology that attempted to discover the basic elements (structures) of the human mind Tried to record the ways and reactions of the human mind
Problems with the school by Edward Titchener People were not able to tell their feelings in words Results were never consistent because individuals would have different experience and explanations
What did William James do? found functionalism. School of Psychology that focused on the functions of the mind and behavior in adapting to the environment
What is the scientific method? Idea Hypothesis data collection data analyses
What are theories? Series of statements about relationships between variables that, taken together, attempts to explain some natural phenomenon
How can we study Behavior? Case Studies Surveys Naturalistic Observations Correlational Studies Experimentation
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