Psychology as a Science

Question 1

What is armchair psychology

Answer 1

The idea that all of us can sit around and play psychologist

Question 2

What did Plato believe

Answer 2

Plato believed in nativism the view that some knowledge is innate rather than acquired

Question 3

What did Aristotle believe

Answer 3

Aristotle was an interactionist believed the environment shaped you cause you were born blank slate

Question 4

Who was Phineas gage

Answer 4

Phineas Gage sustained an injury to the brain which made people realize he was different and study the impact of brain injuries

Question 5

Structuralism (Wilheim Wundt and Edward Ttichner)

Answer 5

Attempted to analyze conscious experience by breaking it down into basic elements

Question 5

Contemporary Psychology ( Wilheim Wundt)

Answer 5

In 1879 the 1st experimental psychology laboratory

Question 6

Limitations to introspection

Answer 6

1. Experience is subjective
2. Each person’s inner experience was an inherently private event

3.Difficult to access subconscious aspects of cognition

Question 7

Introspection

Answer 7

the analysis of subjective experience by trained observers

Question 8

Functionalism (William James)

Answer 8

The study of the purpose and functions of behavior and mental process

Question 9

What influenced Functionalism

Answer 9

Influenced by Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

Question 10

Cognitive Psychology

Answer 10

The study of human information processing / the way people think

Question 11

Psychoanalytic theory

Answer 11

A general theory that emphasizes the influence of the unconscious on feelings, thoughts, and behaviors

Question 12

Psychoanalysis (Freud)

Answer 12

Attempts to explain how behavior and personality are influenced by unconscious processes

Question 13

Cross cultural psychology

Answer 13

A field that draws comparisons about individual and group behavior across cultures

Question 14

Philosophical Empiricism

Answer 14

The view that all knowledge is acquired through experience.

Question 14

Behaviorism

Answer 14

An approach to psychology that restricts scientific inquiry to observable behavior

Question 14

What did John Locke believe

Answer 14

Philosophers such as Locke believed that a newborn baby is a tabula rasa,or “blank slate” upon which experience writes its story.

Question 15

Natural selection

Answer 15

The process by which the specific attributes that promote an organism’s survival and reproduction become more prevalent in the population over time.

Question 16

Unconscious

Answer 16

The part of the mind that contains information of which people are not aware