Psych 105 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is counseling psychology? - Answer a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being How is counseling psychology different to clinical? - Answer Counseling psychology focuses on career/vocational assessment and therapy Humanistic approach Focuses on strengths more likley in college counseling settings not private practices What makes counseling psychology unique - Answer C...

William james - Answer-founded functionalism G. stanley Hall - Answer-founded first psych research lab in the US sigmund freud - Answer-founded psychoanaysis john b. watson - Answer-founded behaviorism b.f. skinner - Answer-behaviorist carl rogers - Answer-founded humanistic psych abraham maslow - Answer-developed theory of motivation karl wernicke - Answer-left temporal lobe

Thinking Definition - Answer-any mental activity or processing of information, including learning, remembering, perceiving, communicating, believing, and deciding What is cognitive economy? - Answer-The use of heuristics to reduce mental effort while still getting things right most of the time What are heuristics? - Answer-Mental shortcuts, drawn from inferences, to increase thinking efficiency Can fast and frugal thinking be better than exhaustive analysis? - Answer-Yes What is cognitive ...

# of people with a BA in psych - Answer-3.4 million # of people with a Ph D or Psy D in psych - Answer-207,000 # of divisions in the APA - Answer-56 3 elements that define science - Answer-systematic empiricism, production of public knowledge, examination of solvable problems systematic empiricism - Answer-structured observation which is theory driven and used to test hypotheses production of public knowledge - Answer-scientific findings are submitted to the scientific community for scru...

Hugo Munsterberg Developed tests of vocational selection, selection tests for motormen, ship captains and telephone operators Harry Hollingworth In 1916 published "Vocational Psychology", apply psychology to assessment of individual differences rather than physiognomy triadic formulation knowledge of oneself, knowledge of occupations, knowledge of relations between the two Frank Parsons the father of counseling psychology, helped out at the Civic Service House in Bosto...

What is the takeaway from the baby head-turning experiment? - Answer Babies turned their neck, working harder to see a face on a paddle over random designs. Suggests babies have a preference for human faces, are ready to form relationships What is the still-face paradigm? - Answer -Mom's don a neutral express and stop interacting -Babies respond by doing everything they can to reignite the social interaction, eventually cry takeaway: babies not only want to be near with caregivers, th...

The most commonly used IQ test in the United States is the: - Answer Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV. Approximately _____ of the population have an IQ score between 85 and 115. - Answer 68% Higher intelligence is related to the thickness of the _____. - Answer cerebral cortex Below are several statements about the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. Which statement is CORRECTLY identified as false? - Answer The same items are used for test-takers of different ages - False Con...

what is the nature vs nurture debate? - Answer nature was is the idea that knowledge is present at birth (created by Plato) nurture is the idea that knowledge is gained through experience (Aristotle) what is the moral definition of nature vs nurture? - Answer Rousseau says that people are born knowing right from wrong. Locke created "tabula rusa" which states blank slate, that infants have to learn the difference between right and wrong. Discontinuous vs Continuous growth - Answer ...

The term culture is typically used in everyday language to refer to all of the following except - Answer genetic determinants of behavior. The textbook defines culture as the values, beliefs, and practices of a group of people, shared through symbols - Answer and passed down from generation to generation. Most people use the term culture to refer to someone's race, ethnicity, or country of origin. This is known as a ________ definition of culture. - Answer narrow _________ is det...