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What are the major subdisciplines within current Psychology and what do they study? - correct answers Clinical - Understand and treat mental illness 
 
Cognitive - basic skills and processes in attention, memory, language perception 
 
Cultural - How geography, national beliefs, and religious values influence mental life and behavior 
 
Developmental - How people can change across lifespan 
 
Health - Relationship between psychological processes and physical health 
 
Industrial/Organizational -...
Psychology definition - correct answers the scientific study of behavior and mental processes 
 
Nativism (nature) -Plato - correct answers the theory or doctrine that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired or learned. 
 
Empiricism (nurture) -Aristotle - correct answers knowledge is gained through experiences (senses) 
 
Rene Descartes - correct answers Dualism 
 
Thomas Hobbes - correct answers the mind is what the brain does 
 
Paul Broca - correct ...
For any mental disorders, know the general symptoms and characteristics. - correct answers 
 
Cognitive Dissonance - correct answers An unpleasant mental experience of tension resulting from two conflicting thoughts or beliefs. 
 
False Memory - correct answers When people come up with memories that never occurred at all 
 
Examples 
- People who create memories from childhood that never happened 
- When people create trauma/abuse that never happened 
- People remember events that didn't happ...
4 goals of psychology - correct answers describe how people and animals behave, understand and explain the causes of behavior, predict behaviors/reactions across situations, control behavior through understanding its causes and consequences 
 
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answers established first psychological lab, analyzed consciousness and structuralism 
 
William James - correct answers built on the principles of introspection & the study of conscious experiences, but instead focused on the why a...
what is psychological activation, such as increased brain activity, autonomic responses, sweating or muscle tension? - correct answers arousal 
 
what is psychological state that motivates an organism to satisfy its needs? - correct answers drive 
 
what is the tendency for bodily functions to maintain equilibrium? - correct answers homeostasis 
 
what law states that performance increases with arousal (or stress) up to an optimal point and then decreases with increasing arousal (stress)? - corr...
biological psychology - correct answers a branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior (ex. genetics, hormones) 
 
Behaviorial Psychology - correct answers the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning (ex. body image, phobias, Watson, exposure therapy) 
 
psychodynamic psychology - correct answers a branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to tre...
motivation - correct answers balance between what your body naturally wants to do and your experiences and nurture 
 
arousal - correct answers the state of being awake, alert, and attentive 
 
drive reduction theory - correct answers homeostasis, reduce the drive, pulled by incentives 
 
what is an example of drive reduction theory - correct answers eating when you are hungry 
 
arousal theory - correct answers you want to have some degree of arousal 
too much = fear 
not enough = boredom 
 
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Psychology - correct answers scientific study of the mind, brain and behavior. 
 
Pseudoscience - correct answers set of claims that see scientific but aren't. Lack safeguard against conservation bias and belief perseverance that characterize science. 
 
6 principles of scientific theory - correct answers 1. ruling out rival hypotheses 2. correlation vs. causation 3. falsifiability 4. replicability 5. extraordinary claims 6. Ocam's razor 
 
5 great theoretical frame works - correct answers 1. ...
A researcher hypothesizes that college students who don't eat breakfast will also be overweight. She knows she needs to be careful that she doesn't just search for evidence that fits her beliefs and ignore contradicting evidence. This researcher is wary of: - correct answers Confirmation bias 
 
George is working on improving his GPA. He is a Psych 111 student and is excited to be studying more effective ways of learning. According to what George would have learned in this module, which of the...
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answers created the term "psychology", godfather of psych 
 
structuralism - correct answers analyze consciousness into basic elements and investigate how they're related 
 
introspection - correct answers careful self-evaluation of conscious experience 
 
functionalism - correct answers investigate function of purpose of consciousness rather than structure 
 
natural selection - correct answers some variation due to enviornment 
 
genotype variation - correct answers ...