AAMC Flash Cards
1
Q
Known as behavioral psychology, is a theory of learning based on the idea that all behavior are acquired through conditioning? A)Functionalism B) Humanism C) psychoanalysis D) Behaviorism
A
Behaviorism
2
Q
It’s a belief that all people possess unconscious thoughts, feeling, desires and ,memories.by bringing the content off the unconscious into conscious awareness. A)Functionalism B) Humanism C) psychoanalysis D) Behaviorism
A
Psychoanalysis
3
Q
The perspective that emphasizes looking at the whole individuals and stresses concepts such as free will, self-efficacy and self-actualization. A)Functionalism B) Humanism C) socialization D) Behaviorism
A
Humanism
4
Q
The study if internal mental processes -all the things that go on inside your brain including perception thinking memory,attention,language, problem solving and learning. A)cognitive psychology B) Humanism C) psychoanalysis D) Behaviorism
A
Cognitive psychology
5
Q
Focuses on breaking down the mental processes into most basic components A)Functionalism B) structuralism C) psychoanalysis D) Behaviorism
A
Structuralism
6
Q
A research technique developed by Wilhelm Wundt ( also known as experimental a self-observation) involved trainings people to carefully and objectively as possible analyze the content of ones own thoughts . A)Retrospection B) Structuralism C) Introspection D) Behaviorism
A
Introspection
7
Q
Focused on the purpose of consciousness and behavior, and emphasized individual differences. A)Functionalism B) structuralism C) psychoanalysis D) Behaviorism
A
Functionalism
8
Q
A theory that hold that social order is maintained by domination and power, rather than consensus and conformity. A)ethnocentrism B) conflict theory C) social status theory D) social dominance theory
A
Conflict theory
9
Q
Money or the concept of currency as people in society has agreed to give it a value, this is an example of? A) Social constructionism B) conflict theory C) social status theory D) social dominance theory
A
A)social constructionism
10
Q
Individuals give a world a meaning by interacting with it this is an example that fits what concept? A)primary group B) symbolic interactionism C) social status theory D) social ascribe
A
B) symbolic interactionism
11
Q
A problem becomes described in medical terminology and treated by a medical professionals. A) Medicalization B)non-beneficence C) gender schemata D)folkway
A
Medicalization
12
Q
Higher social economic status is associated with the lower incidence of stroke this is an example of? A) health disparity B) hindsight bias C) founder effect D) medicalization
A
A) Health Disparity
13
Q
It describes the alienation that individuals feel on social norms and social bonds are weak without additional to society people experience purposelessness and it was this this is an example of what concert? A) obedience B)) Role exit C)Anomie D) Social stigma
A
C)Anomie
14
Q
the tendency of previously learned material to hinder subsequent learning. A) retrospective interference B) proactive interference C)source amnesia D) decay in episodic memory
A
D) Decay in episodic memory
15
Q
The theory that attention to how factors outside of individuals, include community values and other aspects of culture can motivate behavior. A) incentive theory B) humanistic theory C) psychoanalysis theory D) Devine theory
A
A) Incentive theory
