Long Test 1

Question 1

What is Psychology?

Answer 1

Study of Human Behavior

Question 2

What is Behavior?

Answer 2

Reactions or responses of man towards stimulus

Question 3

What is Stimulus?

Answer 3

A force that activates response/change causing one to act/react

Question 4

What is Reaction?

Answer 4

Bodily response aroused by a stimulus

Question 5

What is a theory?

Answer 5

An organized set of concepts that explains a phenomenon or set of phenomena

Question 6

What are the two types of Reactions? Differentiate

Answer 6

Overt Response

• detected by sensory organs
• easily observed

Covert Response

• can’t be directly observed
• happens internally
• physiological actions/conditions (hunger, thirst, sickness), process of thinking, emotions

Question 7

What is the relationship between Overt and Covert Response?

Answer 7

Ex: thinking of what to say (covert), then saying what you mean (overt)

Your covert response must be the sane with your overt response, otherwise miscommunication may occur

Question 8

Two types of stimulus

Answer 8

Voluntary and Involuntary

Question 9

Etymology of Psychology

Answer 9

Psyche - soul
Logos - discourse/study

= study of soul

Question 10

In soul, there is what?

Answer 10

Life

Question 11

Without soul, there is ____

Answer 11

Death

Question 12

What is the manifestation of soul?

Answer 12

The process of movement/motion. When a body is moving, it has a soul.

Question 13

How is movement studied by Greek Philosophers?

Answer 13

through observation

Question 14

what do you develop upon observation? is it always correct?

Answer 14

you develop an assumption, not always correct

Question 15

also known as an intelligent guess

Answer 15

hypothesis

Question 16

what did Aristotle said?

Answer 16

beauty is in nature

Question 17

What did Plato said?

Answer 17

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Question 18

What did Socrates said?

Answer 18

“Know thyself” through process of introspection

Question 19

What is Democritus trying to say?

Answer 19

Mind influence the body, body influence the mind.

We are influenced by external factors, then internal factors influence the mind.

Question 20

He said the change in nature (sx, lx) results to change in responses

Answer 20

Gustav Theodor Fechner

Question 21

He is the Father of Modern Psychology

Answer 21

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 22

Who established the first laboratory

Answer 22

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 23

A movement, group of psychologists with one belief

Answer 23

School of Psychology

Question 24

What are the schools of Psychology

Answer 24

SF BGP

Structuralism
Functionalism
Behaviorism
Gestalt
Psychoanalysis

Question 25

Give their points:
Structuralism
Functionalism
Behaviorism
Gestalt
Psychoanalysis

Answer 25

Structuralism (conscious mind)
Functionalism (environment)
Behaviorism (reward, punishment)
Gestalt (behavior is based on perception, pattern/configuration)
Psychoanalysis (unconscious mind)

Question 26

Proponents of Structuralism

Answer 26

Wilhelm Wundt

Edward Titchener

Question 27

Proponents of Functionalism

Answer 27

William James
John Locke
Charles Darwin

Question 28

Proponents of Behaviorism

Answer 28

John B. Watson

B. F. Skinner

Question 29

Proponents of Gestalt

Answer 29

Max Wertheimer
Kurtkoffha
Wolfgang Kohler

Question 30

Proponents of Psychoanalysis

Answer 30

Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Alfred Alder

Question 31

3 elements of structuralism

Answer 31

Physical Sensation - events
Feelings/Affections - response
Images - memory

Question 32

In Functionalism, what do we do to be able to adapt to environment?

Answer 32

We learn skills

Question 33

Why do we need to adapt to environment?

Answer 33

For survival

Question 34

Behaviorism is explained only by?

Answer 34

Overt - because it is easily observable = it is scientific

Question 35

Two types of consequences and their results and what people do

Answer 35

Pleasant Experience - reward - repetition

Unpleasant Experience - punishment - avoidance

Question 36

Why is behaviorism inadequate?

Answer 36

Some people keep on doing things even if they have a bad experience, because they love doing it

Question 37

Gestalt says that we understand because we follow certain what

Answer 37

Configurations or patterns

Question 38

Gestalt said this is the basis for unserstanding

Answer 38

Configuration

Question 39

Gestalt, Patterns are from?

Answer 39

Experiences

Context (Environment)

Question 40

Differentiate Gestalt and Behaviorism

Answer 40

Gestalt - behavior is based on experiences and context

Behaviorism - there should be a reward or punishment

Question 41

In Psychoanalysis, covert or overt?

Answer 41

Covert

Question 42

Psychoanalysis, experiences and memories are stored where?

Answer 42

Unconscious mind

Question 43

Psychoanalysis, painful memories coming back results to?

Answer 43

Tension and stress

Question 44

What are the 5 perspectives?

Answer 44

Biological
Cognitive
Humanistic-Existentialism
Psychodynamic
Learning

Question 45

What is biological perspective trying to say

Answer 45

We think the way we do because of how our minds is built

The biological component of our body affects how we behave

Question 46

What is Cognitive perspective saying

Answer 46

It attempts to study the mind
Focused on mental processes
Behavior is influenced by values, choices, interpretation of situations

Question 47

Differentiate Humanism and Existentialism and relate them

Answer 47

Humanism - self-awareness, knowing yourself, man is capable of self-fulfillment

Existentialism - man is free to choose

You choose what you want to be through self-actualization.

Question 48

What is Psychodynamic perspective saying

Answer 48

Our behavior is influenced by unconscious mind and childhood experiences
Stress and tension can be released in a positive way

Question 49

What are the two learning perspectives. What do they imply

Answer 49

Social-Cognitive - how you analyze and utilize information

Socio-Cultural - affected by ethnicity, gender, culture not only on biological differences