Unit 0: The Story Of Psychology

Question 1

Neuroscience

Answer 1

Focus: how the body and brain enable emotions, memories and sensory experiences

Question 2

Evolutionary

Answer 2

Focus: How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one’s genes

Question 3

Behavioral genetics

Answer 3

Focus: how much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences

Question 4

Psychodynamic

Answer 4

Focus: how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts

Question 5

Behavioral

Answer 5

Focus: how we learn observable responses

Question 6

Cognitive

Answer 6

Focus: how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information

Question 7

Social-cultural

Answer 7

Focus: how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures

Question 8

Humanistic

Answer 8

Positive

Becoming the best you could possibly be

Question 9

Biological psychologist

Answer 9

Exploring links between mind and brain

Question 10

Developmental psychologist

Answer 10

Studying our changing abilities

Question 11

Cogonitive psychologist

Answer 11

Experimenting with how we perceive, think and solve problems

Question 12

Personality psychologist

Answer 12

Investigating out persistent traits

Question 13

Social psychologist

Answer 13

Exploring how we view and affect one another

Question 14

Counseling psychologist

Answer 14

Improve our social functioning by helping us cope

Question 15

Clinical psychologist

Answer 15

Treat mental and behavioral disorders

Question 16

Industrial/organizational psychologist

Answer 16

Use methods in the workplace to help organizations and companies select and train employees boost morale and productivity

Question 17

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 17

Founded psychology

Founded structuralism

Question 18

William James

Answer 18

Founded fuctionalism

Question 19

Structuralism

Answer 19

Uses introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind
Relied on introspection

Question 20

Functionalism

Answer 20

Focuses on how mental and behavioral processes function

Based on natural selection

Question 21

The two disciplines psychology developed from

Answer 21

Philosophy and biology

Question 22

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 22

Learning and behavior

Question 23

Sigmund Freud

Answer 23

Theory of personality and psychoanalysis

“Things in your past affect who you are today”

Question 24

Jean Piaget

Answer 24

Child development

Question 25

John B. Watson

Answer 25

Behaviorism
Baby Albert
Fear is learned

Question 26

B.F. Skinner

Answer 26

Behaviorism
Environment determines behavior
Positives repeated
Negatives not

Question 27

Behaviorism

Answer 27

Based on observable behavioral responses

Question 28

Nature-nurture debate

Answer 28

Debates if our traits and the way we behave come with experience or if these come with the brain

Question 29

Biological influences

Answer 29

Come from natural process of your body and nature

Ex. genetic mutations, genes responding to enviroment

Question 30

Psychological influences

Answer 30

Come from your mind, what you think and how you see things

Ex. learned fears, emotional responses

Question 31

Social-cultural influences

Answer 31

Come from the people/ groups around you

Ex. compelling models, presence of others

Question 32

Psychology

Answer 32

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes