History And Definition Of Psychology

Question 1

____ - The scientific study of human behavior and mental processes

Answer 1

Psychology

Question 2

______ - Any action that we can observe and measure and can include many activities that we do throughout our day to day lives (can include involuntary or automatic actions)

Answer 2

Behavior

Question 3

Psychology can be classified as a ___ ___

Answer 3

Social science

Question 4

____ - A statement that attempts to explain why things happen the way that they do (can be used to predict behavior and mental processes, not quite fact and can be revised upon further research and data)

Answer 4

Theory

Question 5

____ - That govern human behavior or processes or basic truth of law

Answer 5

Principles

Question 6

Founders of modern psychology are ____ ___ and ___ ___

Answer 6

Wilhelm Wundt and William James

Question 7

Wilhelm Wundt believed in studying psychology as a ____ experience

Answer 7

Conscious

Question 8

_____ - Which a person objectively examines their own conscious experience (Used by Wilhelm Wundt)

Answer 8

Introspection

Question 9

_____ - Created by one of Wundt’s students, the idea that psychologists should focus on mental processes rather than their function

Answer 9

Structuralism

Question 10

____ - William James is credited with this perspective. Which seeks to determine how an organism’s thoughts and behaviors help it fit into its environment

Answer 10

Functionalism

Question 11

___ ___ is considered to be the father of American psychology

Answer 11

William James

Question 12

____ - Interested Sigmund Freud, an old diagnosis that was often used to diagnose women

Answer 12

Hysteria

Question 13

Freud was more focused on the unconscious mind, known as ____ theory

Answer 13

Psychoanalytic theory

Question 14

____ psychology - Another school of psychology that focuses on our sensory experience (created by 3 German psychologists who fled persecution from the Nazis)

Answer 14

Gestalt psychology

Question 15

____ ___ a behavioral psychologist who used an experiment to explain how our behavior can be shaped by our learning, through classical conditioning

Answer 15

Ivan Pavlov

Question 16

____ ___ ___ was a major proponent of behaviorism, and believed that people can’t objectively speak about their mind

Answer 16

John B. Watson

Question 17

. ___ is another behavioral psychologist that is often credited with studying operant conditioning and showed how our behavior is shaped by reinforcement and punishment (the rat box guy)

Answer 17

B.F Skinner

Question 18

____ - Another school of psychology that was promoted by psychologists like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

Answer 18

Humanism

Question 19

___ ___ proposed a hierarchy of needs. Which each level being a new type of need that needs to be met in order for someone to focus on higher needs

Answer 19

Abraham Maslow

Question 20

___ ___ took a humanistic approach to dealing with patients by referring to them as clients rather than patients and emphasized the potential for good in people

Answer 20

Carl Rogers

Question 21

____ __- A more recent push that seeks to put the focus back on the mind (which psychologists from across the world incorporated their findings more to understand the complexity of the human mind)

Answer 21

Cognitive revolution

Question 22

The most influential psychologist ___ ___ associated with the cognitive revolution

Answer 22

Noam Chomsky

Question 23

____ psychology - To study how culture has an impact on human cognition and behavior (cross cultural psychologists often compare populations across cultures and countries to determine differences in human behavior)

Answer 23

Multicultural psychology

Question 24

The first African-American psychologist to receive a PhD was ___ ___ ____ (established a psychology degree program at Howard University that allowed many African-American men and women to enter the field of psychology)

Answer 24

Francis Cecil Sumner

Question 25

African-American psychologists ___ __ Clark and ___ Clark who’s work helped lead to the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 25

Mamie Phipps Clark
and
Kenneth Clark