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Psychology Review

Psychology Review. Introduction to Psychology. Which of the following is NOT a goal of psychology? a. Assumption b. Explanation c. Description d. prediction. Answer: A Assumption. The study of behavior and mental processes. What is psychology?.

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Psychology Review

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  1. Psychology Review Introduction to Psychology

  2. Which of the following is NOT a goal of psychology? a. Assumption b. Explanation c. Description d. prediction

  3. Answer: AAssumption

  4. The study of behavior and mental processes.

  5. What is psychology?

  6. A psychologist who works with the legal system, court, and correctional systems.

  7. What is a forensic psychologist?

  8. Private mental processes, such as thoughts and memories.

  9. What are cognitive activities?

  10. Type of psychologists who deal with people who have adjustment problems.

  11. What are counseling psychologists?

  12. Perspective of psychology that examines the effects of factors such as ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status on human behavior.

  13. What is sociocultural?

  14. Perspective of psychology that emphasizes the influence of biology on behavior.

  15. What is biological?

  16. Individual who established the first psychology laboratory in Germany.

  17. Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

  18. Any action that people can observe.

  19. What is behavior?

  20. Type of psychologists who conduct research into basic processes, such as the functions of the nervous system or sensation and perception.

  21. What is experimental?

  22. Ancient Greek who believed that people could learn much about themselves through introspection.

  23. Who is Socrates?

  24. Ancient Greek who believed that an imbalance in body humors could explain behavior.

  25. Who is Hippocrates?

  26. Type of psychologists who study the psychological effects of the environment on people’s behavior.

  27. What are environmental?

  28. Perspective of psychology that stresses the influence of unconscious forces on human behavior.

  29. What is psychoanalytic?

  30. Psychologist who introduced the concept of reinforcement.

  31. Who is B.F. Skinner?

  32. A statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are and happen the way they do.

  33. What is a theory?

  34. Father of Psychology

  35. Who is William James?

  36. He studied how heredity influences a person’s abilities, character, and behavior.

  37. Who is Sir Francis Galton?

  38. Type of psychologists who focus on people with psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression.

  39. What are clinical psychologists?

  40. The practice of examining bumbs on a person’s skull to determine that person’s intellect and character traits.

  41. What is phrenology?

  42. He proposed that a link existed between the mind and body.

  43. Who is Rene Descartes?

  44. A general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized. Psychologists rely on this to test and support many theories.

  45. What is the scientific method?

  46. Physiologist who pioneered work in conditioning.

  47. Who is Ivan Pavlov?

  48. This process entailed cutting a hole into a person’s skull.

  49. What is trepanning or trephaning?

  50. Who wrote a psychology textbook in 1890?

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