GEN Psych 111.Final Exam

Question 1

An approach to psychology based on the belief that behaviors are motivated by internal factors unavailable to the conscious mind.

(FREUD) Believed human beings were motivated by primitive sexual drives, forbidden desires, and traumatic childhood memories unavailable to the conscious mind.

Answer 1

Psychodynamic approach

Question 2

An approach to psychology that concentrates on observable behavior that can be directly measured and recorded.

Founded by John B. Watson; famous for Little Albert which demonstrated that fear could be conditioned by teaching an 11 month old child to fear a white rat.

Answer 2

Behavior approach

Question 3

An approach to psychology based on the belief that people are innately good and that mental and social problems result from deviations from this natural tendency; Abraham Maslow (heirarchy of needs); and Carl Rogers.

Answer 3

Humanistic approach

Question 4

A field of psychology concerned with mental processes such as perception, thinking, learning and memory that seeks to understand how people process information they collect from their environment; focus on memory, perception, learning, intelligence, language, and problem solving.

Answer 4

Cognitive approach

Question 5

Perspective in psychology that includes the sutdy of biological bases of behavior and focuses on the structure of the nervous system as well as the function of the nervous system; biopsychologists study brain structures, neurotransmitters, hormones, genetics, and disease processes.

Answer 5

Biological approach