Chapter 1.1 Quiz PSYCH (JES)/2
Psychology Fundamentals Quiz
Test your knowledge of psychology concepts with this comprehensive quiz that covers everything from historical perspectives to contemporary theories. With 54 carefully curated questions, explore the intricacies of the human mind and behavior.
Features:
- Multiple choice and checkbox questions
- Questions covering various psychological perspectives
- Engaging format for learners and enthusiasts alike
Knowledge is the result of experience
British Empiricists
Ancient Greek Philosophers
Provided natural,not supernatural, explanations for their observations
British Empiricists
Ancient Greek Philosophers
The brain is the source of the mind
Ancient Greek Philosophers
Ancient Physicians
Studies of reaction time reinforced the idea of the mind as physical
Ancient Physicians
17th-18th century Natural Scientists
Hermann Von Helmholtz
Discoveries about sensation and movement showed that the mind was physical.
17th-18th century Natural Scientists
Hermann Von Helmholtz
Behavior can be broken down into its components
Stucturalism
Gestalt psychology
Breaking behavior into components loses meaning
Gestalt psychology
Functionalism
Behavior is purposeful and contributes to survival
Functionalism
Psycho dynamic theory
Ideas about the unconscious mind, the role of experience in abnormal behavior, and new approaches to therapy laid a foundation for later study in personality and therapy.
Psycho dynamic theory
Humanistic psychology
People are naturally good and are motivated to improve.
Humanistic psychology
Behaviorism
Experience is the primary source of behavior.
Behaviorism
Cognitive revolution
Private mental processing can be studied scientifically.
Cognitive revolution
Behaviorism
What are the 6 Psychological perspectives?
Biological and Evolutionary
Developemental
Cognitive
Clinical
Gestalt
Humanistic
Social
Individual perspective and personality
Investigates the connections among mind, behavior, and biological processes, and asks how our evolutionary past continues to shape our behavior
Biological and evolutionary psychology
Clinical psychology
Investigates mental processes including thinking, problem solving, and information processing
Cognitive psychology
Biological and evolutionary psychology
Asks how our behavior is affected by the presence of others
Social psychology
Cognitive psychology
Investigates the normal changes in behavior that occur across the life span
Developmental psychology
Social psychology
Explains,defines, and treats the psychological disorders and promotes general well-being
Clinical psychology
Individual perspective and personality
Recognizes that behavior varies around averages and that individual differences often interact with the environments.
Individual perspective and personality
Clinical psychology
An approach to psychology that features the study and careful measurement of observable behaviors.
Behaviorism
Culture
The practices,values, and goals shared by groups of people.
Culture
Society
The brain and its activities, including thought emotion, and behavior
Mind
Intospection
Personal observation of your own thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
Introspection
Mind
Personality
Personal observation of your own thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
An individual's characteristic way of thinking,feeling, and behaving
An in-depth analysis of the behavior of one person or a small number of people.
Case study
Confounding variable
Variables that are irrelevant to the hypothesis being tested but can alter a researchers conclusions.
Confounding variable
Control group
A measure of the direction and strength of the relationship between two variables.
Correlation
Critical thinking
An experimental design for assessing age-related changes in which data are obtained simultaneously from people of differing ages.
Cross-sectional study
Dependent variable
Research methods designed for making careful, systematic observations.
Descriptive method
Descriptive statistics
A research design that controls for placebo effects in which neither the participant nor the experimenter observing the participant knows whether the participant was given an active substance or treatment or a placebo.
Double-blind procedure
Experiment
A research method that tests hypotheses and allows researchers to make conclusions about causality
Experiment
Experimental group
A group of participants that is exposed to the independent variable.
Experimental group
Generalize
A proposed explanation for a situation, usually taking the form "if A happens, then B will be the result"
Hypothesis
Independent variable
Statistical methods that allow experimenters to extend conclusions from samples to larger populations.
Inferential statistics
Informed consent
An experimental design for assessing age-related changes in which data are obtained from the same individuals at intervals over a long period.
Longitudinal study
Mean
A method for describing a variable's quantity
Measure
Median
A statistical analysis of many previous experiments on a single topic.
Meta-analysis
Mixed longitudinal design
The most frequently occurring score in a set of data.
Mode
Naturalistic observation
A symmetrical probability function.
Normal distribution
Null hypothesis
The practice of basing conclusions on facts without influence of personal emotion and bias.
Objectivitity
Operationalization
Defining variables in practical terms.
Operationalization
Peer review
An inactive substance or treatment that cannot be distinguished from a real, active substance or treatment
Peer review
Placebo
The entire group from which a sample is taken.
Population
Random assignment
The consistency of a measure, including test-retest, inter-rater,intermethod, and internal consistency
Reliablitity
Replication
Repeating an experiment and producing the same results.
Replication
Sample
A subset of a population being studied.
Sample
Population
A method for learning about reality through systematic observation and experimentation
Science
Statistical significance
A measure of how tightly clustered a group of scores is around the mean.
Standard deviation
Statistical significance
A standard for deciding whether an observed result is better because of chance.
Statistical significance
Standard deviation
A descriptive method in which participants are asked the same questions.
Survey
Theory
A set of facts and relationships between facts that can explain and predict related phenomena.
Theory
Third variable
A variable that is responsible for a correlation observed between two other variables of interest.
Third variable
Theory
A quality of a measure that leads to valid conclusions(.i.e..the measure measures the concept it was designed to measure. )
Validity
Variable
A factor that has a range of values.
Variable
Validity
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