Module 1 - History of Psychology

Question 1

What did Socrates and Plato believe?

Answer 1

• Mind and body are separate
• Knowledge is something we were born with

Question 2

What did Aristoles believe?

Answer 2

• Mind and body are one
• Knowledge grows from experiences and memories

Question 3

Who created interactive dualism?

Answer 3

Rene Descartes

Question 4

What IS interactive dualism?

Answer 4

The mind and body are separate systems that are interconnected and do communicate with each other

Question 5

Francis Bacon & John Locke focused on…

Answer 5

….Both focus on how the mind is shaped by experience

Question 6

What does EMPIRICISM mean?

Answer 6

Gaining knowledge using science

Question 7

What was the influence of physiology?

Answer 7

• Study of function and parts of humans
• Began to develop explanations for the functioning of the senses
• Becomes foundational for psychology as a science

Question 8

What is the formal definition of psychology (science)?

Answer 8

The science of behavior and mental processes

Question 9

What is the goal of psychology as a science?

Answer 9

The goal is to describe, explain, and predict behavior and mental processes

Question 10

Who is the “father of psychology”?

Answer 10

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 11

True or false: Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology lab

Answer 11

T R U E

Question 12

E.B. Titchener was…

Answer 12

…. the founder of structuralism

Question 13

What is structuralism?

Answer 13

Study of the basic elements of thoughts and sensations

Question 14

What was felt conciosness broken into?

Answer 14

Physical sensations
Feelings
Images

Question 15

What is Introspection?

Answer 15

• subject would view an object and try to reconstruct their sensations and feelings they felt while viewing it

Question 16

What did william james contribute?

Answer 16

• First American psychologist
• Wrote “Principles of Psychology”, the first psych book ever
• Founder of functionalism

Question 17

What is functionalism?

Answer 17

Emphasized studying the function of consciousness and how consciousness helped people adapt to their environment

Question 18

Founder of behaviorism

Answer 18

John B Watson

Question 19

BF Skinner and Ivan Pavlov was a…

Answer 19

Behaviorlist

Question 20

Operant conditioning

Answer 20

studied learning of voluntary behavior and effect of reinforcement and punishment

Question 21

Studied learning through dogs

Answer 21

Ivan Pavlov

Question 22

Classical conditioning

Answer 22

learning to do reflexive behaviors to unusual things
Emphasized the study of observable behavior

Question 23

What did Sigmund Freud believe?

Answer 23

Believed that abnormal behavior originated from unconscious drives and conflict that were aggressive and sexual in nature

Question 24

What was carl rogers the founder of?

Answer 24

humanistic psychology

Question 25

What was humanistic psychology?

Answer 25

Emphasized people’s conditions experiences
- Self determined, free will

Question 26

What did Abraham Maslow do and believe?

Answer 26

• Hiearchy of needs
• People are motivated by a drive for psychological growth

Question 27

Created gestalt psychology

Answer 27

Wolfgang Kohler