Psychology Quiz 1

Question 1

What is psychology?

Answer 1

Understanding all the things that we do

Question 2

Where did Psychology originate?

Answer 2

Europe

Question 3

2 different branches of science that combined into Psychology

Answer 3

Physiology and Philosophy

Question 4

Wundt is known as a _____________. He was interested in what?

Answer 4

Voluntarist; volitional or conscious behavior (the way we think when we’re awake)

Question 5

When and where did Wundt found the first psychology lab??

Answer 5

Leipzig, Germany in 1879

Question 6

Founded an early psychology lab at Wellesley College, first woman president of APA

Answer 6

Mary Whiton Calkins (didn’t get her PhD because Harvard was a butthole…Radcliffe)

Question 7

First woman to earn a PhD in Psychology

Answer 7

Margaret Floy Washburn

Question 8

Did pioneer work on adolescent development and fallacy of women’s inferiority

Answer 8

Leta Stetter Hollingworth

Question 9

First president of APA, exposed scholars in the US to Freud’s psychoanalytic theories

Answer 9

G. Stanley Hall

Question 10

World famous for his psychoanalytic theory

Answer 10

Sigmund Freud

Question 11

Attempts to explain motivation, personality, and mental disorders by focuses on the unconscious

Answer 11

Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

Question 12

Widely remembered for collective unconsciousness theory, split from Freud

Answer 12

Carl Jung

Question 13

Works off of introspection (experiences such as sensations, feelings, and images), founded by Titchener

Answer 13

Structuralism

Question 14

Purpose is to understand the purpose or behavior of or consciousness

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Functionalism
Influenced by Darwin and natural selection
“stream of consciousness” –> looks more to flow of thoughts rather than components

Question 15

“Free will is an illusion”, most influential psychologist to date. Humans and animals only do things because of a positive outcome

Answer 15

Skinner

Question 16

Skinner, Pavlov, Watson are considered _______?

Answer 16

Behaviorists

Question 17

Argued for free will, said that humans are free with the potential for personal growth, different from animals
Key is to recognize your potential and feel better about yourself

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Carl Rogers

Question 18

Involves the study of thoughts and mental processes; Human behavior can only be understood by researching internal thoughts. “The way people think is the way they;re going to behave”

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Cognitive Perspective

Question 19

Advocate that organism’s function deals more with how you act rather than thoughts

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Biological Perspective

Question 20

Believed that electrical stimulation to the brain could evoke pleasure or rage in animals

Answer 20

Olds

Question 21

2 different sides of the brain that have their own mental tasks

Answer 21

Sperry

Question 22

Study the evolutionary basis of behavior in humans and animals. What helps animals live will be passed down

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Evolutionary Perspective

Question 23

Focus on the positives of people to help human psychology

Answer 23

Seligman

Question 24

APS established in ________ to serve as an advocate for the science of psychology. Believed the APA was too dominated by clinicians

Answer 24

American Psychological society; 1988.

Question 25

12 Subdisciplines of Psychology

Answer 25

1) developmental-are people developing according to their age 2) cognitive- thought process 3) personality- how/why people act 4) Psychometrics- math/statistics 5) experimental- study traditional topics 6) health- treat psychological illness 7) clinical- evalution, diagnosis, treatment of illnesses 8) Counseling 9) educational- curriculum design 10) industrial- business 11) clinical neuropsychology- brain trauma 12) forensic- legal issues

Question 26

Medical doctor who specializes in treating mental disorders

Answer 26

Psychiatrist

Question 27

7 things that unite psychology

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1) empiricism 2) theoretically diverse 3) sociohistorical context 4) determined by multiple causes 5) shaped by cultural heritage 6) influenced by heredity and environment 7) subjective

Question 28

Premise that knowledge is acquired through skepticism and critical thinking

Answer 28

Empiricism

Question 29

System of interrelated ideas used to explain observations

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theory

Question 30

Purposeful, reasoned, goal directed thinking that involves solving problems in terms of scientific principle

Answer 30

Critical Thinking