What is Psychology

Question 1

Define Scientific Investigation

Answer 1

Mental processes (thinking, remembering & feeling) behaviour and the interaction between them

Question 2

Define Biopsychology

Answer 2

Seeks to understand the mind through understanding the biological activity in the brain

Question 3

What refers to the influence of membership of a larger group, such as tribe or nation

Answer 3

Culture

Question 4

Attempting to determine the structure of consciousness

Answer 4

Structuralism

Question 5

Attempting to explain psychological processes in terms of the role or function they play

Answer 5

Functionalism

Question 6

Psychodynamic perspective

Answer 6

suggests that most psychological processes that guide behaviour are unconscious

Question 7

focuses on the relationship between environmental events (stimuli) and responses to them

Answer 7

Behaviourist perspective

Question 8

emphasises the uniqueness of the individual and focuses on the person’s immediate experience

Answer 8

humanistic perspective

Question 9

cognitive perspective

Answer 9

focuses on how people store, process, and retrieve information

Question 10

evolutionary perspective

Answer 10

suggests that human behaviours evolved because they helped our ancestors survive and reproduce.

Question 11

Psychologist job requirements

Answer 11

6 years minimum training - four years in accredited university + two years supervised practice

Question 12

For which of the following research questions would it be least important to consider sociocultural variables? – Do people instinctually follow rules for social interaction?

Answer 12

To explain behaviour, B. F. Skinner focused on: - environmental stimuli.

Question 13

Latoria is interested in the kinds of changes that people go through in old age (65 years or older). This research is most likely to be conducted in what subfield of psychology.

Answer 13

Developmental

Question 14

Teniel is a clinical psychologist who is studying alcoholism. She believes that alcoholism is caused by several factors, including genetics, unconscious conflicts, learned coping behaviours and maladaptive thought patterns. Teniel is most likely following a(n) ___________ approach to psychology

Answer 14

eclectic

Question 15

A guest at a party says that the cognitive and behavioural approaches to psychology are quite similar. You disagree and say the behavioural approach stresses ___________ while the cognitive model emphasises ___________.

Answer 15

covert behaviour; mental processes