Midterm Review - Psych

Psychiatry is a psychological field that

• requires a medical degree.
• focuses more on mental processing than behavior.
• primarily studies disorders.
• is based in science as opposed to sociology.

Developed the first research laboratory for systematic study of Psychology.

• Aristotle
• Freud
• Descartes
• Wundt

The goals of Psychology are

• to study mental processing and behavior.
• Describe, explain, predict and control human behavior/mental processing. 
• similar to the goals of sociology and other humanities courses. 
• best described in chapter two of our textbook. 

What is Psychology?

• The study of humans and their behavior. 
• The study of the psyche.
• The study of how humans think about the world. 
• The systematic study of human behavior and mental processing. 

Which view of behavior is Freud the founder of? 

• Behaviorism
• Psychoanalytic 
• Cognitive 
• Humanism 

 emphasizes the influences of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socio-economic status on behavior and mental processes 

• evolutionary perspective
• biological perspective
• sociocultural perspective
• all of the above

psychological perspective that focuses on the interaction of biological processes, psychological dispositions, and social factors 

• humanistic perspective
• biopsychosocial perspective
• social-learning theory
• all of the above

 emphasizes the role that thoughts play in determining behavior  

• evolutionary perspective
• cognitive perspective
• biological perspective
• all of the above

A researcher interested in how changes in the cells of the hippocampus (a structure in the brain related to learning and memory) are related to memory formation would be most likely to identify as a(n) ________ psychologist.

• biological

• health

• clinical

• social

The experimental factor that is manipulated:

• Experimental condition

• Control condition

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable