Foundations Of Psychology

Question 1

What is nativism?

Answer 1

Born to have knowledge

Question 2

Who founded the idea of Nativism?

Answer 2

Platon

Question 3

What is philosophical emprirism?

Answer 3

Knowledge is accumulated through the environment

Question 4

Who founded the idea of philosophical emprirism?

Answer 4

Aristotle

Question 5

What is the concept of Dualism?

Answer 5

Person is made of 2 parts; spiritual (soul) and material

Question 6

Who founded the idea of dualism?

Answer 6

Descartes

Question 7

What is the part in the brain associated with the soul, according to Descartes?

Answer 7

The pineal gland

Question 8

Who goes against the idea of Dualism

Answer 8

Hobbes

Question 9

What philosophical idea did Hobbes have?

Answer 9

Materialism (aka monism)

Question 10

What philosophical idea did John Locke have?

Answer 10

Philosophical realism

Question 11

What philosophical idea did Immanuel Kant have?

Answer 11

Philosophical idealism

Question 12

What is the study of influence of nurture without changing the DNA (nature)?

Answer 12

Epigenetics

Question 13

What are the two types of Aphasia?

Answer 13

1) expressive
2) comprehensive

Question 14

Give me an example of expressive Aphasia

Answer 14

Broca and his patient “tan”

Question 15

What is the experimental school of thought by Wilhelm Wundt?

Answer 15

Structuralism

Question 16

What is the experimental school of thoughts by William James?

Answer 16

Funtionalism

Question 17

What is the name of the concept where someone is asked to analyze their own thoughts?

Answer 17

Introspection

Question 18

Who is the founder of psychoanalysis

Answer 18

Sigmund Freud

Question 19

What mental illness was studied with psychoanalytic theories?

Answer 19

Hysteria

Question 20

What is hysteria

Answer 20

Unconfronted trauma resulting in a loss of function and physical symptoms

Question 21

What is the image associated with psychoanalytic theory?

Answer 21

The iceberg of awareness

Question 22

What are the three parts of the iceberg if awareness?

Answer 22

1) ID=instincts
2) Ego=reality/reason
3) Super-Ego=morals

Question 23

Who is the founder of behaviourism?

Answer 23

John B. watson

Question 24

Who did John B. Watson experiment on?

Answer 24

His own child, Little Albert and the white rat

Question 25

Is the experimentation with Pavlov’s dog a classical or operant conditioning?

Answer 25

Classical conditioning

Question 26

What is the concept of operant conditioning?

Answer 26

Letting the subject of experimentation work for a specific result

Question 27

What idea emerges that goes against psychoanalysis and behaviourism?

Answer 27

Humanism

Question 28

Who are Carl Rogers and Charles Maslow?

Answer 28

The founders of humanism

Question 29

What philosophical idea emphasizes on the idea of self actualization?

Answer 29

Humanism

Question 30

What revolution brings back the study of the mind?

Answer 30

Cognitive revolution

Question 31

Why did the cognitive revolution happen (2)?

Answer 31

1) people are not lab rats 2) behaviourism could not explain complex behaviour

Question 32

Which country is Gestalt psychology from?

Answer 32

Germany

Question 33

What is the difference between cognitive psychology and neuroscience?

Answer 33

Psycho studies mental processes while neuroscience studies the biological factors