M1L3: Perspectives/Approaches in Psychology

Question 1

This view is concerned with the neurobiological processes that underlie behavior and mental processes.

Answer 1

Biological Perspective

Question 2

Biological perspective relates actions to events taking place inside the body, particularly the?

Answer 2

Brain and Nervous system

Question 3

This states that all thoughts, feelings, behavior ultimately have a biological cause.

Answer 3

Biological Perspective

Question 4

Biological perspective involves:

Answer 4

1.) brain study
2.) genetics
3.) hormones
4.) immune and nervous systems

Question 5

The primary tenet of Behaviorism:

Answer 5

Psychology should concern itself with the observable behavior of people, not with unobservable events that take place in their minds.

Question 6

The Russian physiologist that is widely known for describing the phenomenon “classical conditioning”

Answer 6

Ivan Pavlov

Question 7

Classical conditioning demonstrated an experiment with?

Answer 7

dogs

Question 8

This view is concerned with the mental processes.

Answer 8

Cognitive Perspective

Question 9

Cognitive Perspective includes:

Answer 9

1.) perceiving
2.) remembering
3.) reasoning
4.) deciding
5.) problem solving
6.) relating all these processes to behavior

Question 10

Foundation of Cognitive Perspective:

Answer 10

Gestalt Psychology

Question 11

People who are the founder of Gestalt psychology and other Cognitive Perspective

Answer 11

Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Koffka

Question 12

He is most widely known for his stage of theory of cognitive development

Answer 12

Jean Piaget

Question 13

He studied intellectual development in children

Answer 13

Jean Piaget

Question 14

This view focuses on the dynamic relations between the conscious and unconscious mind.

Answer 14

Psychodynamic Perspective

Question 15

Psychodynamic Perspective involve psychological forces that might relate to?

Answer 15

early childhood experiences

Question 16

In the late 19th century, Psychodynamics originated with?

Answer 16

Sigmund Freud

Question 17

Freud suggested that psychological processes are flows of psychological energy in a complex brain or also known as?

Answer 17

libido

Question 18

This view stresses the human capacity for self-fulfillment and the central roles of consciousness, self-awareness, and decision making.

Answer 18

Humanistic-Existential Perspective

Question 19

This views people as free to choose and as being responsible for choosing ethical conduct.

Answer 19

Existentialism

Question 20

Humanistic-Existential Perspective are grounded in the work of?

Answer 20

1.) Carl Rogers (1951)
2.) Abraham Maslow (1970)

Question 21

He is considered as the founder of Humanistic Psychology

Answer 21

Abraham Maslow

Question 22

Maslow is noted for his conceptualization of?

Answer 22

“Hierarchy of Human needs”

Question 23

These are the larger scale forces within cultures and societies

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Sociocultural factors

Question 24

Examples of sociocultural factors

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attitudes,child-rearing practices, gender roles, race

Question 25

This is the scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

Answer 25

Social Psychology

Question 26

The main tenet of Cultural Psychology

Answer 26

Mind and culture are inseparable and mutually constitutive (people are shaped by their culture and their culture is also shaped by them)

Question 27

In the late 1920s, Cultural-historical Psychology was formed by?

Answer 27

Lev Vygotsky

Question 28

This focuses on how aspects of culture are transmitted from one generation to the next.

Answer 28

Cultural-historical Psychology

Question 29

Sociocultural factors within cultures and societies affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals.

Answer 29

True