Potential Q's Flashcards
What is biological determinism?
The idea that physical traits lead to behaviors
What year was the first psych lab built in?
1879
Who was Wilhelm Wundt’s student that brought his ideas over to the USA?
Edward Titchener
What is Functionalism?
Reason of mental processes instead of components (William Jones)
The idea of natural selection came from who?
Charles Darwin
What did Sigmund Freud believe heavily in?
The unconscious mind influences current behaviors
Structuralism, Functionalism, and psychoanalysis all rely on what?
Introspection (Subjective)
Behaviorism focuses on:
Observable behavior
What experiment did John Watson conduct?
The Little Albert Experiment
What did the Little Albert Experiment suggest?
That behavior can be predicted and controlled.
Fear of white rat because of loud noise paired with it
B.F. Skinner Box
Trained animals to press certain levers for reward
What is the Gestalt Theory?
Seeks to understand how the human brain perceives experiences as a whole rather than a sum of its parts
What was Kurt Lewin’s field theory of behavior?
People react to stimuli/the world as they perceive it
What does cognitive psychology study?
Human processing: perception, thought, memory, reasoning
What did John Garcia manipulate?
The taste aversion in a rat
Who was the first woman to get a PhD in psychology?
Margaret Floy Washburn
Who was the first president of the APA?
Mary Whiton Calkins
What is rationalism?
Knowledge is gathered via reason and argument
What is nativism?
Knowledge is innate (You inherit it at birth)
What is a demand characteristic?
When people change their natural behavior in social settings
What does the forebrain control?
Complex cognitive, emotional, sensory, and motor functions
What does the midbrain control?
Orientation and movementW
What does the hindbrain control?
Incoming and outgoing information from spinal cord; basic life functions
Medulla
Survival Center: Heart & Lungs
