Psychology Chapter 1

Question 1

Structuralism?

Answer 1

Understanding the conscious experience through introspection. -Wilhelm Wundt

Question 2

Functionalism?

Answer 2

Focused on how mental activities helped and organism adapt to its environment. - William James

Question 3

Psychoanalytic Theory?

Answer 3

Focus on the role of the unconscious in affecting unconscious behavior. - Sigmund Freud

Question 4

Gestalt Psychology?

Answer 4

Focuses on humans as a whole rather than individual parts of a whole.-Wertheimer, Koffka, Kohler

Question 5

Behaviorism?

Answer 5

focuses on observing and controlling behavior.- Pavlov, Watson, Skinner, (Father John)

Question 6

Humanism?

Answer 6

emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans. - Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

Question 7

Five Factor Model?

Answer 7

Openness, consciousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.

Question 8

Social Psychology?

Answer 8

How individuals interact and relate with each other and how those interactions can affect behavior.

Question 8

Health Psychology?

Answer 8

Branch that focuses on how individual health is directly related or affected by
biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences

Question 9

Clinical Psychology

Answer 9

Focuses on diagnosis and
treatment of psychological
disorders and problematic
patterns of behavior.