Chapter 1: The science of psychology

Question 1

What is psychology

Answer 1

scientific study of behavior and mental process

Question 2

who opened the first psych lab and developed the technique of objective introspect

Answer 2

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 3

who brought structuralism to America

Answer 3

Edward Titchener

Question 4

who proposed fuctionalsim

Answer 4

William James

Question 5

who was the first women to earn PhD

Answer 5

Mary whiten calkins

Question 6

who was the first African American to earn Phd

Answer 6

Francis Cecil summer

Question 7

who proposed the existence of an unconscious mine

Answer 7

sigmund freud

Question 8

who proposed behavioralism

Answer 8

John b Watson

Question 9

which modern perspective focuses on the development of motivations behind a person’s behavior?

Answer 9

Psychodynamic

Question 10

Which modern perspective focuses on operant conditioning of voluntary behavior?

Answer 10

behavioral

Question 11

Which modern perspective focuses on that people have free will

Answer 11

humanistic

Question 12

which modern perspective focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving, and learning?

Answer 12

Cognitive

Question 13

Which modern perspective focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture?

Answer 13

sociocultural

Question 14

Which modern perspective attributes human and animal behavior to biological events occurring, hormones, and the activity of the nervous system?

Answer 14

bio psychological

Question 15

which modern perspective looks at the way the mind works and the reason that it works?

Answer 15

evolutionary

Question 16

who diagnoses and treats psychological disorders?

Answer 16

psychatrist

Question 17

who focuses on the environment conditions that can impact mental disorders?

Answer 17

social worker

Question 18

who gives therapy and psychological theories?

Answer 18

psychologist

Question 19

What type of research watches humans or animals behave in their normal environment?

Answer 19

natural observation

Question 20

What type of research studies one individual in great detail?

Answer 20

case studies

Question 21

what type of research asks a series of questions about the topic?

Answer 21

surveys

Question 22

Which variable is manipulated by the experimenter

Answer 22

independent variable

Question 23

which variable represents the measurable response or behavior

Answer 23

dependent variable

Question 24

which group has subjects that are subjected to the IV

Answer 24

experimental group

Question 25

which group doesn’t have subjects that are subjected to the IV

Answer 25

control group

Question 26

Who can prescribe medication to patients

Answer 26

psychiatrist

Question 27

variables that may interfere with measuring the dependent variable and therefore changing the outcome of an experiment are called

Answer 27

cofounding variables

Question 28

which modern perspective focuses on free will, self-actualization and helping patients solve their own issues

Answer 28

humanistic

Question 29

which of the modern perspectives focuses on the unconscious as being the primary explanation for why we think and act the way we do?

Answer 29

psychodynamic

Question 30

who is best known as the father of American psychology and taught the first psychology class in the US at Harvard

Answer 30

William James

Question 31

T or F. nature referes to life experiences that may shape our personality development

Answer 31

false

Question 32

if a study can repeat using multiple different sample groups and the research keeps getting the same results it is said to be

Answer 32

reliable