Test Chapters, 1,5,2

Question 1

What is psychology?

Answer 1

Science of behavior and mental processes

Question 2

What are the goals of psychology?

Answer 2

DUPCI (describe, understand, predict, control, improve

Question 3

Who is the founder of psychology and when did he found it?

Answer 3

Wundt - 1897 in Germany

Question 4

What were the major contributions of Wundt?

Answer 4

Structutalism - self reflection and introspection to reveal functions of the human mind

Question 5

Major contributions of James?

Answer 5

Functionalism (adaptive, Darwinism) how mental and pehavior processes function; how they enable organisms to adapt, survive, and flurish

Question 6

Major contributions of Calkins?

Answer 6

wrote American Mind - focused on conscious self/experience of self

Question 7

What is the process of looking inward? Weaknesses?

Answer 7

introspection, bias perspective and varies from self to self

Question 8

What is a neuron?

Answer 8

nerve cell; building block of nervous system, receives sensory input from around, sends motor commands to muscles

Question 9

What are dendrites?

Answer 9

extentions of the nerve cell designed to receve communication from other cells; tree branch

Question 10

What is another word for the cell body and its function?

Answer 10

The soma, it contains the nucleus and is the central part of a neuron; manufactures proteins, such as neurotransmitters for the rest of neuron, processes info coming from dendrites