Vocabulary

Question 1

Behaviorism

Answer 1

The study of behavior

Question 2

Cognitive Psychology

Answer 2

The study of mental processes

Question 3

Consciousness

Answer 3

Awareness of ourselves and our environment

Question 4

Empiricism

Answer 4

The belief that knowledge comes from experience

Question 5

Eugenics

Answer 5

The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits

Question 6

Flashbulb memory

Answer 6

A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event

Question 7

Functionalism

Answer 7

A school of American psychology that focuses on what the brain does

Question 8

Gestalt psychology

Answer 8

An attempt to study the unity of experience

Question 9

Individual Differences

Answer 9

Ways in which people differ in terms of behavior , emotion, cognition and development

Question 10

Introspection

Answer 10

A method of focusing on internal processes

Question 11

Neural impulses

Answer 11

An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate

Question 12

Practitioner-Scholar Model

Answer 12

Model of training professional psychologist that emphasizes clinical practice

Question 13

Psychophysics

Answer 13

Study of relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli

Question 14

Realism

Answer 14

a tendency to face facts and be practical rather than imaginative or visionary

Question 15

Scientist-Practitioner Model

Answer 15

Model of training professional psychologist that emphasizes research and clinical skills

Question 16

Structuralism

Answer 16

Psychology sought to describe the elements of conscious experience or the doctrine that structure is more important than function.

Question 17

Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon

Answer 17

The inability to say a word from memory even though it is on the tip of the mouth

Question 18

Materialism

Answer 18

belief that the world is made of material, and that there are no other types of entity (things)

Question 19

Dualism

Answer 19

the idea or theory that something (an object, an idea, or the whole world) is split into two parts

Question 20

What were Descartes two arguments against Materialism

Answer 20

Argument one is that the creativity and spontaneity of human actions proves we are more than material beings. Argument two was the famous saying “I think therefore I am”

Question 21

What are the 4 parts of a neuron system

Answer 21

Dendrites, Cell body, Axon and Myelin Sheath

Question 22

What is the Dendrites role

Answer 22

Receive signals from other neurons

Question 25

What is the role of the Cell body

Answer 25

Sums up all the pulses to a certain amount for a neuron firing

Question 26

What is the role of a Axon

Answer 26

Where the neuron firing takes place

Question 27

What is the Myelin Sheath

Answer 27

Fatty tissue that insulates the axon

Question 28

What are the 3 types of neurons

Answer 28

Sensory, Motor and Interneurons

Question 29

What does a sensory neuron do

Answer 29

Takes in information from external world

Question 30

What does the motor neurons do

Answer 30

Move information from the brain to the motor control

Question 31

What does the interneurons do

Answer 31

Connects different neurons without making contact to the external world

Question 32

What is the Synapse

Answer 32

The gap between neurons