PSY101 L01 Concepts

Question 1

Biological perspective

Answer 1

A psychological approach that emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts.

Question 2

Positive psychology

Answer 2

Focuses on the qualities that enable people to be happy, optimistic, and resilient during times of stress.

Question 3

Humanist psychology

Answer 3

A psychological approach that emphasizes free will, personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human potential.

Question 4

Cognitive perspective

Answer 4

A psychological approach that emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem solving, and other areas of behavior.

Question 5

Psychodynamic perspective

Answer 5

A psychological approach that emphasizes unconscious dynamics within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or the movement of instinctual energy.

Question 6

Basic psychology

Answer 6

The study of psychological issues in order to seek knowledge for its own sake rather than for its practical application.

Question 7

Feminist psychology

Answer 7

A psychological approach that analyzes the influence of social inequities on gender relations and on the behavior of the two sexes.

Question 8

Applied psychology

Answer 8

The study of psychological issues that have direct practical significance, also, the application of psychological findings.

Question 9

Socialcultural perspective

Answer 9

A psychological approach that emphasizes social and cultural influences on behavior.

Question 10

Learning perspective

Answer 10

A psychological approach that emphasizes how the environment and experience affect a person’s or animal’s actions; it includes behaviorism and social-cognitive learning theories.

Question 11

Evolutionary psychology

Answer 11

A field of psychology emphasizing evolutionary mechanisms that may help explain human commonalities in cognition, development, emotion, social practices, and other areas of behavior.