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Psychology 1 - Chapter 1 Terms Test

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  1. Clinical Neuropsychologist
  2. Humanistic Psychology Landmark Events & Key Ideas
  3. Cognitive Neuroscience
  4. Principle E: Respect for People's Rights & Dignity
  5. Gestalt Psychology Landmark Events & Key Ideas
  1. a EVENT: Wertheimer's paper on perceived movement, 1912. IDEA: Focus on overall patterns of thoughts or experience; "the whole is more than the sum of its parts."
  2. b A blending of cognitive psychology and neuroscience (the study of the brain) that aims to specify how the brain stores and processes information. Ex: George Miller and Michael Gazzaniga.
  3. c EVENT: Maslow publishes Motivation and Personality, 1954. IDEA: Nonscientific approach; belief that people have positive values, free will, and deep inner creativity.
  4. d Diagnoses effects of brain damage on thoughts, feelings, and behavior, and diagnoses the locus of damage.
  5. e Psychologists respect the dignity and worth of all people, and the rights of individuals to privacy, confidentiality, and self-determination.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. The type of psychologist that have either a Ph.D. or Psy.D. (doctor of psychology) who provides psychotherapy and is trained to administer and interpret psychological tests.
  2. Psychologists strive to benefit those with whom they work & take care to do no harm.
  3. The type of psychologist who focuses on teaching and conducting research.
  4. Events that involve the structure and properties of the organ itself-brain cells and their connections, the chemical soup in which they exist, and the genes.
  5. The outwardly observable acts of an individual, alone or in a group

5 True/False Questions

  1. Personality PsychologistThe type of psychologist with either a master's or Ph.D. who studies how to improve products and procedures and conducts research to help solve specific practical problems.

          

  2. Sport PsychologistThe type of psychologist with either a master's or Ph.D. who studies how to improve products and procedures and conducts research to help solve specific practical problems.

          

  3. PsychotherapyThe process of helping clients learn to change so they can cope with troublesome thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

          

  4. FunctionalismThe school of psychology that sought to identify the basic elements of experience and to describe the rules and circumstances under which these elements combine to form mental structures. Employed Introspection. Ex: Wundt, Titchener, & Washburn.

          

  5. Principle B: Fidelity & ResponsibilityPsychologists strive to benefit those with whom they work & take care to do no harm.