Intro to Psych Final

Question 1

What is Psychology?

Answer 1

The scientific study of behavioral and mental processes

Question 2

4 Goals of Psychology & Definitions

Answer 2

Description- Nature of Behavior
Understanding- Cause
Prediction- Forecast
Control- ability to alter

Question 3

Who is the father of Psychology?

Answer 3

Wilhelm Wundt, 1st psych lab in Leipzig, Germany

Question 4

What is Empirical Evidence?

Answer 4

Any type of evidence gathered through direct observation

Question 5

4 Stages of Piaget

Answer 5

Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operations

Question 6

Sensorimotor

Answer 6

object permanence

Question 7

Preoperational

Answer 7

lack of image transformation

Question 8

Concrete Operational

Answer 8

mastery of conservation

Question 9

Formal Operational

Answer 9

Intellectual Development

Question 10

What do adolescents struggle with the most?

Answer 10

Self-identification

Question 11

Cognitive Psychologist

Answer 11

Focuses on how you process information in the brain

Question 12

Developmental Psychologist

Answer 12

focuses on progress in life from conception to death, behavioral

Question 13

What is REM sleep?

Answer 13

Rapid Eye Movement, where dreaming occurs, return to stage 1 of sleep

Question 14

What is Freud’s theory of dreaming?

Answer 14

2 reason; internal conflict or wishful fulfillments

Question 15

What is learning?

Answer 15

A change in behavior that can be attributed to experience

Question 16

Classical Conditioning

Answer 16

A form of learning in which reflex responses are associated with a new stimuli

Question 17

Operant Conditions

Answer 17

Learning based on the consequences of responding

Question 18

What are the three stages of memory?

Answer 18

Sensory, Short term, Long term

Question 19

What is the hierarchy of needs?

Answer 19

Physiological needs, safety/security, love/belonging, self esteem/esteem, self actualization

Question 20

What is gender roles?

Answer 20

The forward pattern of behavior expected of each sex

Question 21

What is gender identity?

Answer 21

One’s private sense of femaleness or maleness

Question 22

What is gender?

Answer 22

All psychological and social traits associated with being female or male

Question 23

What is sex?

Answer 23

Being male or female and intercourse/ reproduction

Question 24

What is Freud’s theory of personality?

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ID- Pleasure Impulses
Ego- relates desires of ID to reality
Superego- judge of ego (guilt and pride)

Question 25

What is health Psychology?

Answer 25

Study of the ways in which behavioral principles can be used to prevent illness and promote health

Question 26

What is psychopathology?

Answer 26

The scientific study of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

Question 27

What are psycho-somatic disorder?

Answer 27

Psychological factors that contribute to actual bodily damage

Question 28

What is somatization disorders?

Answer 28

People express their anxieties through various bodily complaints with no organic cause for their distress

Question 29

What is the book psychologists use to clarify a disorder?

Answer 29

Diagnostic and Satistical manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-iv/5)

Question 30

What is social psychology?

Answer 30

The scientific study of how individuals behave, think, and feel in social situations

Question 31

Prejudice

Answer 31

Negative emotional attitude held towards members of of a group of people

Question 32

Discrimination

Answer 32

treating member of various social groups unequally

Question 33

What is social stereotypes?

Answer 33

Oversimplified images of the traits of individuals who belong to a particular social group

Question 34

Why is it important to study psychology?

Answer 34

To aid with interaction with others

Question 35

What is critical thinking?

Answer 35

A type of reflection involving the support of beliefs through scientific exploration ad observation

Question 36

What is motivation?

Answer 36

Internal processes that initiate, sustain, direct, and terminate activities

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What is a neuron?

Answer 37

An individual nerve cell

Question 38

Know the differences between the left and right brain

Answer 38

Left- analysis | right- emotion

Question 39

Know the IQ formula

Answer 39

Mental age ----------------------- X 100 = IQ Chronological Age

Question 40

What is sensation and perception?

Answer 40

sensation- the physical stimulation of sensory organs | perception- the organization of sensations into meaningful patterns

Question 41

What is consciousness?

Answer 41

Awareness

Question 42

What is the ultimate erogenous zone?

Answer 42

the most pleasurable area of the body

Question 43

Which drugs impact us sexually?

Answer 43

All of them