Unit 1

Question 1

Biological perspective

Answer 1

Genes, brain/nervous system, neurotransmitters linked to psychological processes

Question 2

Evolutionary perspective

Answer 2

Behavior that allowed us to survive or reproduce, uses principles of natural selection

Question 3

Cognitive perspective

Answer 3

How we encode, process + store information (thoughts/memory)

Question 4

Humanistic perspective

Answer 4

How we meet our needs for love + acceptance + achieve self-actualization; emphasis on human flourishing

Question 5

Psychodynamics perspective

Answer 5

How behavior springs from unconscious drives + motives

Question 6

Behavioral perspective

Answer 6

How we learn observable responses through learning

Question 7

Social-cultural

Answer 7

How behavior + thinking vary across situations and cultures

Question 8

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 8

Conducted the first psychology experiment and created the first psychology lab

Question 9

John Locke

Answer 9

Believed we were ‘blank slates’, and had to learn everything (nurture)

Question 10

Standard Deviation

Answer 10

How much something ‘deviates’ or is away from the average

Question 11

Standard deviation +1/-1 percentage

Answer 11

68%

Question 12

Standard deviation +2/-2 percentage

Answer 12

95%

Question 13

Hindsight Bias

Answer 13

Tendency to believe to have foreseen something after learning the outcome (I knew it all along)

Question 14

Introspection

Answer 14

examining and reflecting upon one’s own thoughts, emotions, and experiences.