History of Psychology

Question 1

Behaviorism

Answer 1

The study of behavior.

Question 2

Cognitive Psychology

Answer 2

The study of mental processes.

Question 3

Consciousness

Answer 3

Awareness of ourselves and our environment.

Question 4

Empiricism

Answer 4

The belief that knowledge comes from experience.

Question 5

Eugenics

Answer 5

The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits.

Question 6

Flashbulb Memory

Answer 6

A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event.

Question 7

Functionalism

Answer 7

A school of American psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness.

Question 8

Gestalt psychology

Answer 8

An attempt to study the unity of experience.

Question 9

Individual Differences

Answer 9

Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development.

Question 10

Introspection

Answer 10

A method of focusing on internal processes.

Question 11

Neural Impulse

Answer 11

An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate.

Question 12

Practitioner-Scholar Model

Answer 12

A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice.

Question 13

Psychophysics

Answer 13

Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli.

Question 14

Realism

Answer 14

A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the external world.

Question 15

Scientist-Practitioner Model

Answer 15

A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills.

Question 16

Structuralism

Answer 16

A school of American psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience.

Question 17

Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon

Answer 17

The inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that that word is available.