Chapter 12: Psychology

Question 1

the study of the human mind (or soul)

Answer 1

psychology

Question 2

the belief that human beings are composed of a single substance

Answer 2

mind/body monism

Question 3

the branch of psychology concerned with explaining everything through material causes

Answer 3

behaviorism

Question 4

a school of philosophy that reduces all behavior to cognative functioning and seeks to explain behavior by examining underlying cognative cases

Answer 4

cognative behaviorism

Question 5

the theory that human beings are innately good physical beings with personal agency who are mentally healthy when focused upon achieving self-actualization

Answer 5

third force phychology

Question 6

approach to physcology whereby a phycologist attempts to resolve a patient’s unconscious, unfulfille, or repressed desires

Answer 6

psychoanalysis

Question 7

the stage at which a person purportedly meets his or her full psychological potential

Answer 7

self-acualization

Question 8

the training technique that pairs a naturally ocuring stimulus and response with an unreated stimulus, so that eventually, the unrealted stimulus is able to produce the desired response in absence of the natural stimulus

Answer 8

classical conditioning

Question 9

the belief that human beings are social construction without a singular identity, essence, or soul

Answer 9

decentered self

Question 10

a school of psychology that attempts to intergrate aspects of transcendent religious teaching within the framework of modern psychology

Answer 10

fourth force psychology

Question 11

the act of attempting to achieve a particular outcome through concentrating and meditating upon that outcome

Answer 11

visualization

Question 12

the belief that all human beings have an inate predisposition toward submitting to Allah and acting morally

Answer 12

firtah

Question 13

the belief that human beings are composed of immaterial minds and material bodies

Answer 13

mind body dualism

Question 14

the belief that the mind is only a projection of brain activity

Answer 14

epiphenomenalism

Question 15

someone chooses to do something wrong, and this has consquences for that person’s personal state

Answer 15

personal sin

Question 16

someone is the victim of the sinful behavior of another

Answer 16

sin of others

Question 17

someone has a genetic or phsiological disorder due to the corruption of nature because of sin (schizophrenia or autism, for example)

Answer 17

physical fallenness

Question 18

Satan, who desires to steal, kill, and destroy can oppressor even take control of the spirit of a person, causing mental illness

Answer 18

satanic attack

Question 19

a branch of pyscology that focus on promoting mental health and happiness rather than just treating mental illness

Answer 19

positive psychology