Chapter 1, 3, 4

Question 1

What is psychology?

Answer 1

scientific study of behavior, thought, experience

Question 2

What method does psychology use?

Answer 2

scientific method

Question 3

What does the biological perspective focus on?

Answer 3

genes, brain, anatomy and function, and evolution

Question 4

What are examples of the biological perspective?

Answer 4

Genetics of behavior and psychological disorders

Brain-behavior relationships

Drug effects

Question 5

What does the psychological perspective focus on?

Answer 5

Behavior, perception, thought, and experience

Question 6

What are examples of the biological perspective?

Answer 6

Language

Memory

Decision Making

Personality

Question 7

What does the sociocultural perspective focus on?

Answer 7

Interpersonal relationships, families, groups, societies, and ethnicities

Question 8

What are examples of the biological perspective?

Answer 8

Attraction

Attitudes and stereotypes

Conformity

Question 9

In Scientific Literacy, what question does Knowledge Gathering ask?

Answer 9

What do we know about this?

Question 10

In Scientific Literacy, what question does Scientific Explanation ask?

Answer 10

How can science explain it?

Question 11

In Scientific Literacy, what question does Critical Thinking ask?

Answer 11

Can we critically evaluate the evidence?

Question 12

In Scientific Literacy, what question does Application ask?

Answer 12

Why is this relevant?

Question 13

What is critical thinking?

Answer 13

involves exercising curiosity and skepticism when evaluating the claims of others, and with our own assumptions and beliefs

Question 14

What are the core set of habits and skills for developing critical thinking?

Answer 14

Be curious
Not all research is of equal quality
Examine assumptions and biases
Try to keep emotions out of the process
Tolerate ambiguity
Consider alternative viewpoints and interpretations of the evidence

Question 15

What is empiricism?

Answer 15

Knowledge through experience

Question 16

What is determinism?

Answer 16

Events governed by lawful, cause-and-effect relationships that didn’t develop until the 1800’s

Question 17

Who delayed the science of psychology?

Answer 17

Zeitgeist

Question 18

What is materialism?

Answer 18

the belief that other living beings are composed exclusively of physical matter

Question 19

Early experimentation and research was conducted by who?

Answer 19

Physicists and physiologists

Question 20

What is psychophysics?

Answer 20

the study of the relationship between the physical world and the mental representation of that world

Question 21

Fechner is discussed what principles?

Answer 21

Sensation and perception

Question 22

Darwin is responsible for what?

Answer 22

Natural selection

Question 23

What is natural selection?

Answer 23

Behaviors

Emotional expressions

Question 24

What did medicine contribute to?

Answer 24

the biological perspective and clinical psychology

Question 25

What is clinical psychology?

Answer 25

focus on diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders

Question 26

What is brain localization?

Answer 26

Certain parts of the brain control certain mental abilities and also personality characteristics

Question 27

What is phrenology?

Answer 27

Developed by Franz Gall; Belief that different lumps consisted of 27 organs and they represented different personality traits

Question 28

What did Paul Broca do?

Answer 28

Looked where damaged was localized in the brain

Question 29

What did Wernicke do?

Answer 29

Looked at brain damage

Question 30

What is Wernicke’s area?

Answer 30

Area in the brain that if damaged causes language to sound “jumbled up”

Question 31

Who was Mesmer?

Answer 31

Australian who believed in hypnosis practicing in Paris that believed he could use magnets to cure disease or insanity

Question 32

What is psychosomatic medicine?

Answer 32

Another name for hypnosis

Question 33

What did Freud?

Answer 33

Used cocaine to treat many patients

Emphasis in hypnosis which lead to psychoanalysis theory

Question 34

What it he psychoanalysis theory?

Answer 34

Psychological approach that attempts to explain how behavior and personality are influenced by unconscious processes