Handout 2

Question 1

Made up by four temperaments of the founder FRANZ JOSEF GALL during 19th CENTURY.

Answer 1

Hippocrates

Question 2

The first experimental psychology laboratory established in LEIPZIG, GERMANY by WILHEM WUNDT

Answer 2

1897

Question 3

Four kind of temperaments

Answer 3

Sanguine ( cheerful&active)
Melancholic (sad)
Choleric (angry&aggressive)
Phlegmatic (calm&passive)

Question 4

Five kinds of perspective

Answer 4

Biological
Psychodynamic
Cognitive
Behavioral
Humanistic

Question 5

Believes that behavior is MOTIVATED BY INNER FORCE and CONFLICTS OVER which the individual has little AWARENESS AND CONTROL

Answer 5

Psychodynamic Perspective

Question 6

Considers the BEHAVIOR OF BOTH PEOPLE AND ANIMAL in terms of BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING.

Answer 6

Biological Perspective

Question 7

Seeks to explain HOW WE PROCESS INFORMATION and how our ways of thinking about the world influence our behavior.

Answer 7

Cognitive Perspective

Question 8

Suggests that OBSERVABLE BEHAVIOR SHOULD BE THE FOCUS OF THE FIELD.

Answer 8

Behavioral Perspective

Question 9

Suggests that PEOPLE ARE NATURALLY ENDOWED with the capacity to MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR LIVES and to CONTROL THEIR BEHAVIOR

Answer 9

Humanistic Perspective

Question 10

Process of sensing, perceiving, learning and thinking about the world.

Answer 10

Experimental psychology

Question 11

Specializes in BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR. Focuses on the OPERATION OF THE BRAIN and NERVOUS SYSTEM.

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Biopsychology psychology

Question 12

Studies how people grow and change from moment of conception through death

Answer 12

Developmental psychology

Question 13

Attempts to explain both consistency and change in a person’s behavior over time.

Answer 13

Personality psychology

Question 14

Relationship between psychological factors and physical aliments or disease

Answer 14

Health Psychology

Question 15

Deals with the study of DIAGNOSIS, and TREATMENT OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR

Answer 15

Clinical Psychology

Question 16

Focuses primarily on EDUCATION, SOCIAL and CAREER adjustment problems.

Answer 16

Counseling Psychology

Question 17

Specialty area devoted to ASSESSING CHILDREN IN ELEMENTARY and SECONDARY SCHOOLS who have ACADEMIC or EMOTIONAL problems and developing solutions to such problems.

Answer 17

School Psychology

Question 18

Concerned with TEACHING and LEARNING process. Focuses in understanding intelligence, developing better teaching techniques, and understanding teacher-student interaction.

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Educational Psychology

Question 19

Study of how people’s thoughts, feelings and actions are affected by others. Focus in such divers topics as human agressions, liking, loving, persuasion and confronting.

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Social Psychology

Question 20

Psychology of the workspace. Considers issues such as PRODUCTIVITY, JOB SATISFACTION, and DECISION MAKING.

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Industrial/organizational psychology

Question 21

Broad range of issues such as discrimination against women, the possibility that structural differences exist in men’s and women’s brains, the effect of hormones on behavior, and the cause of violence against women.

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Psychology of womens

Question 22

Analyzes people’s BUYING HABITS and the effects of adverstieing on buyer behavior.

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Consumer Psychology

Question 23

Investigates the similarity and differences in psychology functioning in various cultures and ethnic groups.

Answer 23

Cross-Cultural Psychocolgy

Question 24

Seeks identify behavior patterns that are results of our genetic inheritance from our ancestors.

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Evolutionary Psychology

Question 25

Focuses relationship between biological factors

Answer 25

Clinical Neuropsychology

Question 26

Relationship between people and their environment

Answer 26

Environmental Psychology

Question 27

Large scale programs usually managed by government

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Program Evaluation

Question 28

Application of psychology to athletic activity and exercise

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Sports and Experience Psychology

Question 29

An operation chipping away at a patient’s skull with crude stone instrument until a hole was cut through the bone 500,000 years ago.

Answer 29

Trephining