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PSYC 101 / Introduction to Psychology Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions Psychology ✔✔The SCIENCE of behavior and mental processes. The scientific method is used to study behavior. ... Scientific Method ✔✔A self-correcting process for evaluating ideas with observation and analysis. It is a SYSTEMATICAL approach. (Step-by-Step) Where can experiments be conducted? ✔✔Laboratories or field. Laboratories include: ✔✔Animal labs, sleep labs, child observation labs, etc. The field includes: ✔✔Real world settings - Schools, playgrounds, nurseries, work sites, etc. When, where, and by who was the first psychological laboratory founded? ✔✔Founded by Wilhelm Wundt in 1879, in the University of Leipzig, Germany. What three skills are acquired by studying psychology? ✔✔1) Insight into emotions, thought processes, abnormal and criminal behaviors, and more. 2) Brain structure and function! What part of the brain is active when you are happy for example, and why that is. 3) Enhance respect and tolerance of individual differences. Remember knowledge help us understand. Neuroscience perspective ✔✔Focuses on how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences. Evolutionary perspective ✔✔Its focus is to explain how the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes. Behavior genetics perspective ✔✔Focuses on explaining how our genes and our environment influence our individual differences. Psychodynamic perspective ✔✔Focus on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts. Behavioral perspective ✔✔Focuses on understanding how we learn observable responses. Cognitive perspective ✔✔Explains how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information. Socio-cultural perspective ✔✔Explains the variations in behavior and thinking across situations and cultures. Psychological subfields include: ✔✔T [Show More]

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