History of Psychology

Question 1

Cognitive Psychology

Answer 1

The study of mental processes

Question 2

Behaviourism

Answer 2

The study of behaviour

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 behaviour, emotion, cognition and development

Question 10

Introspection

Answer 10

A method of focusing on the 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 emphasises clinical practice

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Psychophysics

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

Question 14

Realism

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A point of view that emphasises 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 emphasises 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 the 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 the word is available