Science Of Psychology

Question 1

What did Descartes believe in?

Answer 1

Dualism

Question 2

Define dualism

Answer 2

The separation of the mind and the body

Question 3

What is the question of the brain in the vat?

Answer 3

Can we simulate life?

Question 4

What does the Malevolent demon question?

Answer 4

How do we know what we experience is real?

Question 5

Who was involved in structuralism

Answer 5

Wundt

Question 6

What methods did Wundt use?

Answer 6

Introspection

Question 7

What is structuralism?

Answer 7

The idea that the brain functions in separate component parts.

Question 8

Who was associated with functionalism

Answer 8

James

Question 9

What is the idea surrounding functionalism?

Answer 9

Organisms functions allow us to predict and understand behaviour

Question 10

What approach is associated with the black box?

Answer 10

Behaviourism

Question 11

What does operant conditioning involve

Answer 11

Reinforcement through rewards and punishments

Question 12

What does classical conditioning involve

Answer 12

Association of unconditioned and conditioned stimulus to creat a conditioned response

Question 13

What names are involved in behaviourism

Answer 13

Pavlov
Skinner
Watson

Question 14

What two approaches often collide due to subjective and bias views

Answer 14

Structuralism and behaviourism

Question 15

Who is associated with Early memory research (cognition)

Answer 15

Ebbinghaus

Question 16

What does cognitive psychology attempt to uncover that other approaches fail to?

Answer 16

‘The black box’

Question 17

What is cognitive psychology influence by?

Answer 17

Structuralism and functionalism

Question 18

Who created the hierarchy of needs

Answer 18

Maslow

Question 19

What is in maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

Answer 19

Psychological needs
Safety and security
Love and belonging
Self esteem
Self actualisation

Question 20

What therapy did rogers develop

Answer 20

Client centred therapy

Question 21

What is the key idea of the psychodynamic approach

Answer 21

The unconscious mind includes motivating forces that guide our behaviour and produce our personality.

Question 22

What are the parts of the tripartite personality

Answer 22

ID, Ego, Superego

Question 23

Who were key individuals in the beginning of the biological approach

Answer 23

Broca and Wernicke

Question 24

What are the key ideas around the biological approach

Answer 24

All behaviour and mental processes can be traced to physical causes

Question 25

What scientific approach involved the cognitive approach and the biological approach?

Answer 25

Cognitive neuroscience

Question 26

Who was involved in evolutionary psychology?

Answer 26

Darwin
Dawkins
Wilson

Question 27

What are the main ideas around evolutionary psychology?

Answer 27

Our behaviour is determined by our genes.

Question 28

What does evolutionary psychology say our main reason for existence is?

Answer 28

To reproduce out genes

Question 29

What are the three things required for evolution to work

Answer 29

A self replicating unit
Some random variability in its replication
Pressure to select on that variability sociobiology applies these ideas to human behaviour and psychology

Question 30

Why is evolutionary psychology controversial

Answer 30

Due to the idea of sexual selection