Stats: Psych Unit One quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The science of Behavior and mental processes	Psychology	100%
This guy said knowledge grows from experience	Aristotle	63%
This guy made psychoanalytic psychology	Sigmund Freud	63%
This guy said that nerve pathways allowed for reflexes	Descartes	25%
A school of thought that that focuses on the purpose and function of mental processes and behaviors rather than their structure, emphasizing how these processes help organisms adapt to their environment	Functionalism	25%
Psychology, focusing on the potential for personal growth, created by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow	Humanistic Psychology	25%
Sometimes unreliable self-reflection	Introspection	25%
A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who are licensed to provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy.	Psychiatry	25%
School of thought that aimed to understand the structure of the conscious mind by breaking it down into its basic elements, such as sensations and perceptions	Structuralism	25%
This guy introduced structuralism	Titchener	25%
This guy established the first psychology laboratory with Stanley Hall and his student founded the school of structuralism	Wilhelm Wundt	25%
This guy promoted functionalism	William James	25%
The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes.	Behavioralism	13%
This guy heavily influenced the principles behind functionalism	Charles Darwin	13%
The study of mental processes, such has how we perceive, learn, think, communicate, and solve problems	Cognitive Psychology.	13%
A branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being.	Counseling Psychology	13%
The study of the evolution of behavior of the mind using principles of natural selection	Evolutionary Psychology	13%
Founder of Modern Science and helped with empiricism	Francis Bacon	13%
This guy proposed the mind as a blank slate, which experiences write. Founder of empiricism.	John Locke	13%
First Woman Psychology PhD and wrote the “Animal Mind”	Margaret Floy Washburn	13%
The principle that inherited traits that better and enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment will be passed on to succeeding generations.	Natural Selection	13%
Refers to the classic debate over whether inherited genetic factors (nature) or life experiences and environmental influences (nurture) are more significant in shaping human behavior and development.	Nature vs. Nurture	13%
The scientific study of human curiosity, with goals of discovery and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive.	Positive Psychology	13%
The study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking.	Social-Cultural Psychology	13%
These Ancient Greeks said the mind is separable from the body	Socrates and Plato	13%
Aims to solve practical problems	Applied Research	0%
Science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base	Basic Research	0%
The study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior	Behavioral genetics	0%
The scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning.	Behavioral Psychology	0%
The scientific study of the links between biological (genetic, neural, hormonal) and psychological processes.	Biological Psychology	0%
An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural viewpoints.	Biopsychosocial approach	0%
A descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles.	Case Study	0%
A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.	Clinical Psychology	0%
The interdisciplinary study of brain activity linked with cognition	Cognitive Neuroscience	0%
This type of method seeks to detect naturally occurring relationships; to assess how well one variable predicts another	Correlational	0%
	Critical Thinking	0%
the postexperimental explanation of a study, including its purpose and any deceptions, to its participants.	Debriefing	0%
This type of method seeks to observe and record behavior	descriptive	0%
Studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the lifespan	Developmental Psychology	0%
Study of how psychological process can enhance teaching and learning	Educational Psychology	0%
This type of method seeks to explore cause and effect	experimental	0%
The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. (Also known as the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.)	Hindsight Bias	0%
Study that explores how people and machines can be made safe and easy to use	Human-Factor Psychology	0%
The mistaken belief that a relationship exists between two variables when there is no real connection, or the connection is much weaker than perceived	Illusory Correlation	0%
The application of concepts and methods to optimize human behavior	Industrial-organizational Psychology	0%
Numerical data that allow one to generalize—to infer from sample data the probability of something being true of a population.	Inferential Statistics	0%
Giving potential participants enough information about a study to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.	Informed consent	0%
This woman focused on studying children and their development	Leta Hollingsworth	0%
First Woman Psychologist. First President of the APA and a memory researched.	Mary Whiton Calkins	0%
A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures (operations) used in a research study. For example, human intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures.	Operational Definition	0%
We answer questions with confidence that are normally incorrect. We overestimate our ability and confirm biases	Overconfidence	0%
Study of individuals characteristics patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting	Personality Psychology	0%
A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders.	Psychodynamic psychology	0%
The study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits.	Psychometrics	0%
Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding can be reproduced.	Replication	0%
Combines Curiosity, Skepticism, and humility to evaluate ideas with observation and analysis	Scientific Method	0%
These two guys started behavioralism	Skinner and Watson	0%
Study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another	Social Psychology	0%
An explanation using an integrated set of principle that organizes observations and predicts behavior and events.	Theory	0%

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