Basic/Intro

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Shared ideas and behaviors passed from one generation to the next

Question 2

WEIRD

Answer 2

Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic culture

Question 3

Gender

Answer 3

Biologically and socially defined

Question 4

Positive Psychology

Answer 4

Centers on happiness, uses scientific methods to support development of a good life, focus research on human flourishing

Question 5

Psychology’s Subfields

Answer 5

1) Basic research
2) Applied research
3) Professional

Question 6

Professional Subfield

Answer 6

• Counseling psychologists (typical therapists, etc. master’s degree)
• Clinical psychologists (PhD, more involved with medicine)
• Psychiatrists (medical doctor, medical school, medical doctorate Community psychologists)

Question 7

Freudian Psychology (Psychoanalytic)

Answer 7

Emphasized ways that the unconscious mind and childhood experiences affect behavior emphasized

Question 8

Skinner

Answer 8

Personality theorist and therapist

thought could teach any baby/child and they could learn to do anything

Question 9

Humanistic Psychology

Answer 9

Found behaviorism and Freudian psychology too limiting

Emphasized human growth potential

Question 10

Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

Answer 10

Focus on need, hierarchy of needs, etc.

Question 11

Psychology

Answer 11

The science of behavior and mental processes, roots in many disciplines and countries, growing and globalizing

Question 12

Cognitive Psychology

Answer 12

Study of mental processes, such as those that occur when we perceive, learn, remember, think, communicate, and solve problems

Question 13

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 13

Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition, including perception, thinking, memory, and language

Question 14

Evolutionary Psychology (not generally about origin of species) (adapt)

Answer 14

Study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using natural selection principles

Nature/Nurture Issue

Are traits present at birth or developed through experience?

Question 15

Behavior Genetics

Answer 15

Study of relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior

Question 16

Placebo Effect

Answer 16

Experimental results caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which the recipient assumes is an active agent

Question 17

The Endocrine System

Answer 17

Set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream

Slow chemical communication system

Includes pituitary glands

Question 18

Levels of consciousness

Answer 18

Minimal consciousness

Full consciousness

Self consciousness

Serial conscious processing

Unconscious parallel processing

Selective Attention

Selective Inattention