Tulane Psych 1000 Rollins test 1
What is psychology? - ✔✔The science of behavior and natural processes
What is arm-chair psychology and why is it unscientific? - ✔✔It is based on speculation and
casual observation. It
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Tulane Psych 1000 Rollins test 1
What is psychology? - ✔✔The science of behavior and natural processes
What is arm-chair psychology and why is it unscientific? - ✔✔It is based on speculation and
casual observation. It is not scientific because it can be influenced by beliefs and what is obvious
is not always correct. We tend to notice info we already know or think
What did Wilhelm Wundt do? - ✔✔He opened the first ever psychology lab in Germany 1879
How has psychology shifted between the study of cognition and the study of behavior (i.e.,
behaviorism backlash, etc.)? - ✔✔Psychology began as the study of cognition until the 1920s,
then shifted to behaviorism from the 20s to the 60s, then there was the behaviorism backlash that
argued that the study of behaviorism wasn't scientific, so people moved back to cognition. Today
both are studied
What is the difference between clinical psychologists and psychiatrists? - ✔✔Psychiatrists have
MDs and can prescribe medications
What do cognitive psychologists study? - ✔✔Study mental processes
Biological psychologists? - ✔✔Studies influences of biology on psychological processes
Developmental psychologists? - ✔✔Studies how people change over their lifespans
Personality psychologists? - ✔✔Study individual difference
Social psychologists? - ✔✔How people interact with other people (interpersonal interactions)
What is the biopsychosocial approach? - ✔✔Behavior and mental phenomena arise from the
interaction of biological, psychological, and social influences.
What is the nature or nurture debate? What is meant by nature and nurture? What is wrong with
this debate? How does environment influence genes? What do genes do? - ✔✔Whether people
do things because of how they were born or how they were raised. This is wrong because people
are a combination of their nature and their nurture, and nature and nurture affect one another.
Environment can "turn on" certain genes, which make up a person. Some genes are only
activated in certain environments. G
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