Week 1

Question 1

What is the biological appraoch

Answer 1

Behaviour is the result of physical processes. How or genes, hormones and nervous system affect our thoughts, feelings and actions.

Question 2

What is the Cognitive approach

Answer 2

Focuses on mental processes
How we think
How we learn
How we store and retrieve information

Question 3

What is the Evolutionary approach

Answer 3

Human behaviour evolved in order to survive and reproduce

Question 4

What is the Humanistic approach

Answer 4

Each person has a unique view of the world and it focuses on their experiences. Non-judgemental, self growth, self awareness

Question 5

What is the Psychodynamic approach

Answer 5

Explores how our unconscious and our past experiences shape our behaviour and emotions.

Anxiety - caused by inner turmoil

Question 6

What is the Behavioural approach

Answer 6

View observable behaviour, used rewards and punishment to condition behaviour, events in an environment could provoke a response/reaction

Question 7

What is psychology today?

Answer 7

Psychology today has less of an emphasis on behavioural and look more into mental processes with a scientific view point.

Question 8

Define psychology as a science

Answer 8

Psychology is the science that seeks to understand behaviour and mental processes and apply that information to help human welfare.

Systematically gather evidence

Perform controlled experiments

Analyse resulting information

Draw appropriate conclusions

Apply those findings to help people become happier and more effective

Question 9

Wundt

Answer 9

Consciousness, Introspection, opened the first research laboratory structure

Question 10

Titchner

Answer 10

Consciousness and its structure. Breaking down the different elements involved in an experience

Question 11

Gestalt

Answer 11

Consciousness as a whole instead of breaking it down into individual parts.

Question 12

William James

Answer 12

Consciousness - Functionalism -

Guiding people’s ability to make decisions, solve problems

What function our mental processes serve

How mental processes influence behaviour

How behaviour influences mental processes

Question 13

John B Watson, BF Skinner

Answer 13

Behaviourism - Only observable behaviour, linked to learning. Rewards & punishments shape, maintain and change behaviour through conditioning Linked back to the environment.

Question 14

Freud

Answer 14

Psychoanalysis - Unconscious

Believed that all behaviour from everyday slips of the tongue to severe forms of mental disorders, is motivated by psychological processes – Mental conflicts that occur unconsciously

Question 15

Psychology subfield - Biological

Answer 15

Biological factors influencing behaviour and mental processes

Question 16

Psychology subfield - Cognitive

Answer 16

Mental processes underlying judgment, decision making, problem solving, imagining and other aspects of human thought or cognition

Question 17

Psychology subfield - Clinical

Answer 17

Seeking to assess, understand and change abnormal behaviour

Question 18

Psychology subfield - Cultural

Answer 18

Study the interaction between differing cultural groups. Helping us to better understand the experiences of migrants, refuges, and asylum seekers as they work to build a new life.

Question 19

Psychology subfield - Developmental

Answer 19

Seeking to understand, describe and explore how behaviour and mental processes change over a lifetime

Question 20

Psychology subfield - Educational

Answer 20

The study methods in which instructors teach and students learn, and who apply their results to improving those methods.

Question 21

Psychology subfield - Organisational

Answer 21

Ways to improve efficiency, productivity and satisfaction among workers and the organisation that employs them.

Question 22

Psychology subfield - Societal

Answer 22

How people influence one anothers behaviour and mental processes, individually or in groups

Question 23

Psychology subfield - Forensic

Answer 23

Issues involving psychology and the law

Question 24

Psychology subfield - Community

Answer 24

Working with communities and individuals to prevent psychological issues by striving for change in social systems.

Question 25

Psychology subfield - Environmental

Answer 25

Effects of the physical environment on behaviour and mental processes.

Question 26

Psychology subfield - Health

Answer 26

Effects of behaviour and mental processes on health and illness, vice versa

Question 27

Psychology subfield - Personality

Answer 27

The characteristics that make individuals similar to or different from one another

Question 28

Psychology training requirements

Answer 28

3-year undergrad

4th-year honours

Obtain a provisional registration

2 years of supervise practice or

5th-year study + 1 year supervised practice

Question 29

What are mental processes?

Answer 29

Different ways our mind works to help us Think , Learn and remember - referring to
Attention
memory
reasoning
perception
problem solving