Chapter 1

Question 1

Psychology

Answer 1

About understanding things we do, a practical science

Question 2

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 2

Father of psychology and structuralism

Question 3

Functionalism

Answer 3

Finding the purpose of behavior, related to Darwinism.

Question 4

Structuralism

Answer 4

Psychology is for analyzing consciousness into basic elements and their relationships, introspecting

Question 5

Psychoanalysis

Answer 5

All about the unconscious, slips which get through to the conscious

Question 6

Behaviorism

Answer 6

Opposite of psychoanalysis in that you can’t study thoughts, nurture over nature

Question 7

Humanism

Answer 7

Positive psychology, the actual versus ideal

Question 8

Professional Psychology

Answer 8

Applied psychology, jump started by WWII and still highly contested

Question 9

Diversity and Psychology

Answer 9

Largely western white and male, culture studies and effort to study understudied groups emerges

Question 10

Cognition

Answer 10

How we think and process info, internal mental process

Question 11

Physiology

Answer 11

Brain structure and physical properties of the brain are important in terms of psychology