Psych unit 1

1. Psychology is the scientific study of ____________________ and __________________ processes.

• Behavior and Facial expressions

• Language and Customs

• Behavior and Mental

• Movement and Environment

Learning to make an involuntary response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus that normally produces the response.

• Classical Conditioning

• Operant Conditioning

A naturally occurring stimulus that leads to an involuntary and unlearned response. In Pavlov’s dogs, the food.

• Unconditioned Stimulus

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Conditioned Response

• Neutral Stimulus

Items or events that when following a response will strengthen it.

• Reinforcement

• Punishment

Any event or stimulus that, when following a response, causes that response to be less likely to happen again.

• Punishment

• Reinforcement

A student does a good job on math problems for homework, and the teacher awards a sticker. This demonstrates the use of

• conditioning
• Reinforcement
• Spontaneous recovery
• stimulus 

Contemporary psychology is best defined as the science of:

• conscious and unconscious mental activity

• observable responses to the environment

• observable behavior and mental processes

• thoughts, feelings, and perceptions

What makes psychology a science?

• Many psychologists have earned advanced college degrees.
• Psychologists may study the brain.
• The methods psychologists use to ask and answer questions.
• Psychologists focus on studying behavior and mental processes.

What type of psychologist is most likely to wonder how the brain scans of someone experiencing an epileptic seizure differ from the scans of someone who has not had a seizure?

• clinical
• health
• developmental
• biological

Sadie believes that she is the Queen of England and that the CIA is out to get her. What type of psychologist would be most likely to treat her psychological disorder?

• developmental
• cognitive
• clinical
• personality