Vocab 1-50

Question 1

What word means the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?

Answer 1

Psychology

Question 2

What does psyche mean?

Answer 2

mind

Question 3

What does logos mean?

Answer 3

study of

Question 4

What is the opposite of Free Will?

Answer 4

Determinism

Question 5

What is the opposite of Determinism?

Answer 5

Free Will

Question 6

What word means genetically inherited traits?

Answer 6

Nature

Question 7

What word means anything in the environment that influences behavior?

Answer 7

Nurture

Question 8

Name the experiment which demonstrated the effect of teacher expectations on student achievement

Answer 8

The Pygmalion Experiment

Question 9

Name the two individuals who conducted the Pygmalion experiment

Answer 9

Robert Rosenthal
Lenore Jacobsen

Question 10

Name ONE of the four ways teachers with high expectations act towards their students

Answer 10

Nicer climate
More teaching
More opportunities to respond
More feedback

Question 11

A prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true

Answer 11

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Question 12

The tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one’s existing beliefs or theories

Answer 12

Confirmation Bias

Question 13

What does DSM stand for?

Answer 13

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition

Question 14

What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?

Answer 14

1973

Question 15

Who was the main author of the book titled “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”?

Answer 15

Alfred Kinsey

Question 16

Name the early advocate for LGBTQ rights who helped remove homosexuality from the DSM

Answer 16

Evelyn Hooker

Question 17

Discredited treatment method that attempted to change a person’s sexual orientation

Answer 17

Conversion Therapy

Question 18

Drilling a hole in a person’s skull for medical purposes is called what?

Answer 18

Trephination

Question 19

Name the two ancient Greek philosophers who created the Four Humors theory

Answer 19

Hippocrates
Galen

Question 20

Franz Gall believed bumps on the skull correlated with personality. This psychological approach is known as what?

Answer 20

Phrenology

Question 21

The Somatotype Theory suggests body type correlates with personality. Who advocated this belief?

Answer 21

William Sheldon

Question 22

Name the philosopher who proved the existence of the mind

Answer 22

Rene Descartes

Question 23

What does - cogito ergo sum - mean?

Answer 23

I think, therefore, I am

Question 24

Who is considered the Father of the Scientific Method?

Answer 24

John Locke

Question 25

What does TABULA RASA mean?

Answer 25

blank slate

Question 26

Kind of medical doctor who deals with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

Answer 26

psychiatrist

Question 27

Kind of psychologist who treats people with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

Answer 27

clinical psychologist

Question 28

Who set up the first ever psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany?

Answer 28

Wilhem Wundt

Question 29

What year did Wilhem Wundt set up the first psychology laboratory?

Answer 29

1879

Question 30

Edward Titchener, a student of Wilhem Wundt, established which early approach to psychology?

Answer 30

Structuralism

Question 31

What does Gestalt mean?

Answer 31

whole pattern

Question 32

Name two Gestalt principles?

Answer 32

proximity closure

Question 33

What is the name of the American mental health activist who lobbied Congress to create asylums?

Answer 33

Dorothea Dix

Question 34

The first ever psychology class was taught at Harvard in 1875 by whom?

Answer 34

William James

Question 35

Who wrote the first psychology textbook?

Answer 35

William James

Question 36

Which approach to psychology did William James advocate?

Answer 36

Functionalism

Question 37

Who established America's first research laboratory?

Answer 37

G. Stanley Hall

Question 38

Who was the first president of the American Psychological Association?

Answer 38

G. Stanley Hall

Question 39

Who was the first female president of the American Psychological Association?

Answer 39

Mary Calkins

Question 40

Who was the first woman to earn her Ph.D. in psychology?

Answer 40

Margaret Washburn

Question 41

Who is considered the father of the Theory of Evolution?

Answer 41

Charles Darwin

Question 42

The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

Answer 42

natural selection

Question 43

What is the name of the 19th century English scientist, who was the cousin of Charles Darwin and who believed in eugenics?

Answer 43

Sir Francis Galton

Question 44

The self-direction of human evolution is called what?

Answer 44

eugenics

Question 45

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by unconscious ideas?

Answer 45

psychoanalytic

Question 46

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by rewards and punishments?

Answer 46

behaviorism

Question 47

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by self-directed choices?

Answer 47

humanism

Question 48

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by how people remember and think?

Answer 48

cognitive

Question 49

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by the nervous system?

Answer 49

biological

Question 50

Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by ethnicity, gender, and economic groups?

Answer 50

social