Chapter 1

Question 0

Name the 4 areas of research in psychology.

Answer 0

Social (how our social interactions effect our behaviour and mental life)
Personality (analyzes differences), experimental(analyzes basic processes),
developmental (things that shape is through out our life)

Question 1

The science that studies behaviour and the physiological and cognitive processes is…

Answer 1

Psychology

Question 2

What are the 2 main areas of practice in psychology?

Answer 2

Research, and practice areas

Question 3

Define clinical psychology

Answer 3

Diagnose and treat behavioural problems.

Question 4

What does a school psychologist do

Answer 4

Would analyze school aged children to try and catch psychological or learning disabilities early in order to treat them.

Question 5

What was psychology originally rooted in?

Answer 5

Philosophy (questions about mind and soul)

Physiology (normal function of a living organism)

Question 6

What did psychology have roots in?

Answer 6

Philosophy and physiology

Question 7

What did Hippocrates contribute to psychology?

Answer 7

The body mind connection

Question 8

Who ‘fathered’ psychology

Answer 8

William Wundt

Question 9

What is structuralism

Answer 9

The study of the structure of consciousness

Breaks consciousness down into basic elements by intraspection

Question 10

Who played a major role in structuralism

Answer 10

Edward Titchener

Question 11

Which study was focused on the purpose of consciousness

Answer 11

Functionalism

Question 12

Structuralism analyzes what

Answer 12

The basic elements of introspection

Question 13

Of functionalism and structuralism who had the most lasting impact on psychology

Answer 13

Functionalism

Question 14

Who’s views were controversial

Answer 14

Sigmund Freud

Question 15

The theory of unconscious forces influencing behaviour, was developed by?

Answer 15

Sigmund Freud

Question 16

Behaviouralism

Answer 16

The focus on environment shaping behaviours

Question 17

Who founded behaviouralism

Answer 17

John B. Watson

Question 18

The scientific study of behaviour is

Answer 18

behaviouralism

Question 19

What psychological study was first to incorporate animal research

Answer 19

Behaviouralism

Question 20

Which study was very popular but ignored the mind, consciousness, and mental processes

Answer 20

Behaviouralism

Question 21

The condition reflex/ response is

Answer 21

A conditioned response in Pavlovian conditioning is the response that the conditioned stimulus elicits after it has been repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus. The conditioned response may be similar in form to the unconditioned response. For example, the eye blink to the tone conditioned stimulus may involve the same bodily musculature as the eye blink to the puff of air to the cornea.

Question 22

What did Pavlov contribute to behaviouralism

Answer 22

The conditioned response

Question 23

What is thorndike’s law of effect

Answer 23

The idea that rewarded behaviours will cause people to do that behaviour more and punished the opposite
(Stamp it in, or stamp it out)

Question 24

Skinner built of of who's work

Answer 24

Thorndike

Question 25

Skinner argued what

Answer 25

That free will was just an illusion

Question 26

Who were the main influences of behaviouralism

Answer 26

John B. Watson (controlled environmental stimuli to modify behaviour in a predicted way), Ivan Pavlov(conditioned reflex), Edward Thorndike (law of effect), B.F Skinner (free will is an illusion)

Question 27

The idea that unconscious forces effect out behaviour came from what psychologist?

Answer 27

Sigmund Freud

Question 28

In response to the Freudian psychoanalysis and Watson's behaviourism age what type of psychology developed?

Answer 28

Humanism

Question 29

The idea that humans are good and society impacts them to do good or bad was from what psychological perspective.

Answer 29

Humanism

Question 30

Which type of psychological study did a lot of research on animals

Answer 30

Behaviouralism

Question 31

Major names in humanism

Answer 31

Rogers and Maslow

Question 32

What are the 5 main perspectives of psychology?

Answer 32

``` Behaviouralism Psychodynamics Humanism Cognitive Physiological (and evolutionary) ```

Question 33

Empiricism

Answer 33

The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation

Question 34

Name the 7 themes of psychology

Answer 34

It's empirical (knowledge acquired through observation) Theoretically diverse ( many theories) Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical (society and historical context change through time and shape psychology) Behaviour is determined by multiple causes Behaviour is shaped by cultural heritage Heredity and environment jointly influence behaviour People's experience of the world is highly subjective