Exam 1 - Introduction

Question 1

What is the definition Psychology?

Answer 1

The Study of thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

Question 2

What is the definition of mind?

Answer 2

Unobservable thoughts and feelings

Question 3

What is the definition of behavior?

Answer 3

observable actions

Question 4

What is Philosophical Nativism?

Answer 4

The view that some knowledge is innate rather than acquired.

Ex: Human beings must be born with some basic knowledge of the world that allows them to acquire additional knowledge of the world

Question 5

What is Philosophical Empiricism?

Answer 5

The view that all knowledge is acquired through experience

Ex: A newborn child is a “blank slate” upon which experience writes its story

Question 6

What is Consciousness?

Answer 6

a person’s subjective experience of the world and the mind.

Question 7

What is Unconscious?

Answer 7

the part of the mind that contains information of which people are not aware.

Question 8

What is Introspection?

Answer 8

the analysis of subjective experience by trained observers.

Question 9

What is Structuralism?

Answer 9

an approach to psychology that attempted to isolate and analyze the minds basic elements.

Question 10

What is Functionalism?

Answer 10

an approach to psychology that emphasized the adaptive significance of mental processes.

Question 11

What are Basic Psychologists?

Answer 11

conduct research to learn how mind and behavior work (Developmental psychology, social psychology)

Question 12

What are Applied Psychologists?

Answer 12

use research to help solve to real world problems (environmental psychology, health psychology)

Question 13

What are Licensed Psychologist?

Answer 13

obtain state licenses to deliver mental health services. (Clinical psychology, counseling psychology)

Question 14

What is Clinical psychology?

Answer 14

focuses on the study, diagnosis, and treatment of (serious) psychological disorders.

Question 15

What is Cognitive Psychology?

Answer 15

the study of human information-processing.

Question 16

What is counseling psychology?

Answer 16

Focuses primarily on (normal, everyday) educational, social and career challenges.

Question 17

What is developmental psychology?

Answer 17

focuses on how people grow and change from conception to death.

Question 18

What is Environmental psychology?

Answer 18

studies the links between people and their physical surroundings (natural or built)

Question 19

What is health psychology?

Answer 19

examines the connection between psychological factors and physical ailments.

Question 20

What is social psychology?

Answer 20

focuses on the causes and effects of social group membership

Question 21

What are Perspectives?

Answer 21

broad philosophical understandings that people have about mind and behavior.

Question 22

What are the seven perspectives of psychology?

Answer 22

psychodynamic, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, biological, evolutionary, sociocultural

Question 23

What is a Psychoanalytic?

Answer 23

behavior by focusing on unconscious psychological conflicts between instincts and social norms.

Question 24

What is a Behaviorist?

Answer 24

behavior by emphasizing what a person has learned in their environment

Question 25

What is **Sociocultural**?

Answer 25

focuses on social group membership as a source of mental processes and behaviors.

Question 26

What is **Biological**?

Answer 26

behavior in terms of bodily systems and processes.

Question 27

What is **Cognitive**?

Answer 27

behavior examining mental processes (perception, thought, memory)

Question 28

What is **Humanistic**?

Answer 28

explains behavior by stressing the decisions people make based on their perceptions of the world.

Question 29

What is **Evolutionary**?

Answer 29

behavior in terms of its adaptive value as preserved over time through natural selection.

Question 30

What is a **Stimulus**?

Answer 30

any agent, event, or situation (internal or external) that elicits a response from an organism.

Question 31

What is a **Response**?

Answer 31

how the organism reacts to a stimulus and results in the change in behavior.

Question 32

What is Natural **Selection**?

Answer 32

The process by which the specific attributes that promote an organism's survival and reproduction become more prevalent in the population over time.

Question 33

What is **Individual Natural Selection**?

Answer 33

Individual genes are passed to the next generation.

Question 34

What is **Group Natural Selection**?

Answer 34

ideas are passed to the next generation.

Question 35

What is **Multilevel Natural Selection**?

Answer 35

genes and/or ideas are passed to the next generation.