Week 1 Intro to Pysch

Question 1

2 types of science

Answer 1

basic science and applied sience

Question 2

Examples of applied science

Answer 2

clinical psych

Question 3

Modern psych is rooted in what?

Answer 3

physiology and philosophy

Question 4

Wilhem Wundt created what school of psych?

Answer 4

Structuralism

Question 5

What was the goal of structuralism?

Answer 5

Create a periodic table of the mind

Question 6

What did structuralism study?

Answer 6

sensations and perceptions

Question 7

Williams Jones created what school of psych?

Answer 7

Functionalism

Question 8

What approach did functionalism have?

Answer 8

evolutionary approach

Question 9

Psychoanalysis was made popular by who?

Answer 9

Freud

Question 10

What are the 3 parts of the mind according to Freud?

Answer 10

id, ego, superego

Question 11

Behaviorism is based on what?

Answer 11

observable behavior

Question 12

What two things did behaviorism study?

Answer 12

reward and punishment

Question 13

Why did behaviorism start to fall?

Answer 13

1) new ways to study the mind
2) the computer
3) didn’t take biology into account

Question 14

According to cognitive psychology, the minds info-processing system looks like?

Answer 14

input- algorithms/decision making- output

Question 15

Neuroscience has what 2 central findings?

Answer 15

1) localization of function
2)distributed processing

Question 16

evolutionary science’s main idea is?

Answer 16

evolution helps us see why the mind works the way it does

Question 17

Example of evolved emotion

Answer 17

disgust

Question 18

What does unfalsifiable mean?

Answer 18

untestable