Into to pych

Psychology is

• The study of behavior

• The study of thought

• The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

• The study of mental processes

He is the "father of psychology" because he was the first to study human thought

scientifically

• Sigmund Freud

• Wilhelm Wundt

• BF Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

This perspective on behavior stresses the unconscious mind and early childhood

• Behaviorist

• Psychoanalytic

• Humanistic

• Cognitive

One problem you can run into with naturalistic observations is

• observer bias

• too many controls

• too few participants

• very expensive to conduct

This perspective on behavior stresses genetic factors, chemical imbalances and

their effects

• Behaviorist

• Biological

• Humanist

• Cognitive

Environment, reward and punishment are the focus of this perspective of

behavior.

• Behaviorist

• Biological

• Humanist

• Cognitive

Which is the first goal of psychology?

• Control/influence

• Explain

• Predict

• Describe

When you can identify what triggers a behavior, you have reached this goal of

psychology.

• Control/influence

• Explain

• Predict

• Describe

In an experiment to test if music increases the number of words remembered, the independent variable is

• The Music

• The Number of words remembered

• The group getting the controls

• The amount of words given

A person learns to avoid situations that cause problems, which goal of psychology is this?

• Control/influence

• Explain

• Predict

• Describe