Unit 1

Question 1

Components: Humanistic

Answer 1

• Self Fulfillment
• Make Choices
• Invent and Reinvent Yourself

Question 2

Components: Sociocultural

Answer 2

• Ethnicity
• Economic Status
• Gender

Question 2

Key Assumption: Sociocultural

Answer 2

*How your position in society affect your behaviors

Question 3

Components: Cognitive

Answer 3

• Interpretation of mental images
• Know thyself
• Problem-solving
• Creativity, emotion, and thinking

Question 3

Key Assumption: Humanistic

Answer 3

*People make choices based on their life experiences

Question 4

Key Assumption: Cognitive

Answer 4

*Perception and thoughts are influenced by your behaviors

Question 4

Components: Evolutionary

Answer 4

-Height
-Speed
-Weight
-Nature vs Nurture

Question 4

Components: Biological

Answer 4

-Nervous system (Fight or flight)
-Glands (Nervous sweat)
-Hormones
-Connections in the brain

Question 5

Significant Figure: Cognitive

Answer 5

-Gestalt (Structuralism and Functionalism)

Question 5

Key Assumption: Biological

Answer 5

*Mental processes are impacted by the neuro system

Question 6

Key Assumption: Evolutionary

Answer 6

*Physical traits affect social behavior

Question 7

Introspection

Answer 7

Your process of thinking; self-reflection

Question 7

Prescientific

Answer 7

-Roots from ancient times in Greece more than 2,000 years ago
-Centered around introspection
-Greek have many Gods so if you don’t act right you are being punished with brain abnormalities
-No science to back it up yet

Question 8

Components: Learning

Answer 8

-Memory
-Environment
-Observing
-Change the environment or create new ones

Question 9

Key Assumption: Learning

Answer 9

Personal experiences and reinforcements determine what you learn

Question 9

Key Assumption: Psychoanalytic

Answer 9

Unconscious motives influence your behavior

Question 10

Components: Psychoanalytic

Answer 10

-Unconscious
-Early Life Experiences
-Id, Ego, Superego

Question 10

Significant Figure: Learning

Answer 10

B.F. Skinner

Question 11

Significant Figure: Psychoanalytic

Answer 11

Frued

Question 12

Structuralism

Answer 12

Conscious experience is broken into (1) objective sensations and (2) subjective feelings

Question 13

Significant Figures: Structuralism

Answer 13

-Wilhelm Wundt
-Edward Titchener

Question 14

Significant Figures: Functionalism

Answer 14

William James

Question 15

Functionalism

Answer 15

Conscious works to help humans adapt to their environment

Question 16

Conscious

Answer 16

Processes information that comes through the 5 senses

Question 17

Subconscious

Answer 17

Stores and processes information that comes from the consious

Question 18

Psychology

Answer 18

The scientific study of the mind and its behavior

Question 19

Modern Psychology: Significant Figures

Answer 19

Wilhelm Wundt
Edward Tuishner
Gestalt
William James
Freud
Watson
Skinner

Question 20

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 20

Created the first experimental lab
- introspection
Works with Edward Tushner to develop structuralism

Question 21

Gestalt

Answer 21

Total experience; no breaking down

Question 22

William James

Answer 22

Functionalism
1st book of psychology

Question 23

Frued

Answer 23

-Psychoanalysis
-Most famous psychologist
-Unconscious motives + internal conflicts determine behaviors

Question 24

Middle Ages

Answer 24

-When people are agitated and confused they think demons possess them
-Deal with the devil
-Water Float Test
-Pure Metals sink
-Heads up = impure= executed