Exam 1 Flashcards
Q: What is a paradigm?
A: A framework or structure that guides understanding.
Q: What is the behaviorism paradigm?
A: A framework or structure that asks questions about observable behaviors.
Q: What is the biopsychosocial model?
A: A model that integrates biological, psychological, and social factors in understanding health and illness.
What is a need?
A: Something that supports life, growth, and well-being.
Q: What is the difference between psychology and sociology?
A: Psychology studies individuals while sociology studies groups
Q: What are emotions?
A: Affective feelings or responses.
Q: What are cognitions?
A: How one perceives something.
Q: What are some behavioral expressions of motivation?
A: Attention, effort, persistence, latency, intensity, facial expressions, bodily gestures, voice, self-report, voice inflection, and duration.
Q: Cardiovascular activity, plasma activity, hormonal activity, ocular activity, electrodermal activity, skeletal activity, and brain activity are what?
A: Physiological expressions of motivation
Q: What did the 1934 LaPiere Stanford study reveal?
A: It showed that self-reports can be unreliable because people might say one thing and do another.
Q: what is social acquiescence?
A: not rocking the boat, doing what society says is acceptable.
Is self-report a behavioral measure?
It is argumentative
Self-report, physiology, and behavioralist are apart of what?
Tri-fecta
Q: What did Socrates believe about truth?
A: He believed all truth was innate.
Q: What was Plato’s belief about knowledge?
A: Plato believed that truth and knowledge were not innate and that ideas, forms, and ideals were key.
Q: What is appetitive processes according to Aristotle?
A: Appetitive processes involve desire and seeking out pleasure
Q: When was the “birth of psychology” and what marked its beginning?
A: In 1879 with the establishment of the first psychological laboratory by Wundt, marking the start of voluntarism.
Q: What is the concept of “zeitgeist” in psychology?
A: It refers to the spirit of the times, or the prevailing cultural norms and beliefs during a specific period.
Q: Phylogeny is _______
Ontongeny is _______
Epistemogeny is ______
A:
1. Genes
2. Habits
3. Ideas
Q: Ego (Das Ich), super ego (Das Uber), and ID (Das Es) were whose beliefs?
A: Freud
Q: Family history, DNA marker, At Birth, twin studies
these are all examples of ?
A: Phylogeny
Das ich -
Das Uber (Above I/self) -
Das Es (The IT)
Das ich - reality
Das Uber (Above I/self) - morality
Das Es (The IT) - pleasure
Are culture and society examples of phylogeny, ontogeny, or epistemogeny?
A: Epistemogeny
Match the force of psych with the person:
1. structuralism A. Freud
2. functionalism B: Tichner
3. Behaviorism C. Watson
4. Gestalt D. Dewey & James
5. Psychoanalysis E. Wertheimer,
Koffka, & Kohler
- structuralism B. Tichner
- functionalism D: Dewey & James
- Behaviorism C. Watson
- Gestalt E. Wertheimer
Koffka, & Kohler - Psychoanalysis A. Freud
Q: Three examples of internal motives
A:
1. Needs
2. Cognition
3. Emotion
Q : What are the 3 types of needs and examples?
A:
1.Physiological (hunger, thirst, sleep)
2.Psychological (self-esteem, autonomy, confidence)
3. Social (social approval, affection)
Q: S>R is what?
Stimulus to response
Calculating: thinking that is strategic
Competitive: outperforming others
Appetitive: desires or cravings
Who’s ideas were these?
Plato
What was Aristotle’s tripartite?
Rational: reasoning and thinking
Sensitive: perception and emotion
Nutritive: growth and reproduction
What was Freud’s tripartite?
Ego: derives from reality
Super Ego: derives from morality
ID: derives from pleasure