Unit 1 Quiz

Question 1

Knowledge is innate. Mind is separate from body.

Answer 1

Socrates, Plato, Descartes

Question 2

Definition of psychology

Answer 2

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

Question 3

Knowledge grows from experience. ID-EGO-Superego

Answer 3

Aristotle

Question 4

Believed in scientific method and that psych needs to be studied and researched

Answer 4

Francis Bacon

Question 5

Behaviorism, Tabula Rasa Theory (blank slate)

Answer 5

John Locke

Question 6

To learn something by watching it and experiencing it. Observation and experimentation.

Answer 6

Empiricism

Question 7

Father of modern psychology, took psych into the lab with reaction time test, Structuralism (atoms of the mind)

Answer 7

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 8

First President of the APA, brought psych to U.S. at Johns Hopkins (child psychology)

Answer 8

G. Stanley Hall

Question 9

Created earliest school of thought: Structuralism

Answer 9

Edward Titchener

Question 10

Uses introspection to reveal structure of human mind

Answer 10

Structuralism

Question 11

Looking inward through self-reflection (proved to be unreliable)

Answer 11

Introspection

Question 12

First American psychologist, wrote first psych textbook, Functionalism

Answer 12

William James

Question 13

Explores how mental and behavioral processes function (how the mind works)

Answer 13

Functionalism

Question 14

First woman psychologist, tutored by William James, first female president of APA

Answer 14

Mary Calkins

Question 15

First woman psychologist to receive a degree. 2nd female APA president

Answer 15

Margaret Washburn

Question 16

“Sold” people on psych, NOT scientific, founder of psychoanalysis

Answer 16

Sigmund Freud

Question 17

Conditioning (molding people). Promoted by John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner (dismissed introspection)

Answer 17

Behavioralism

Question 18

Form of conditioning like teaching a dog a trick

Answer 18

Operant conditioning

Question 19

Involuntary conditioning

Answer 19

Classical conditioning

Question 20

Studies growth and potential of healthy people. (Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow)

Answer 20

Humanistic Psychology

Question 21

How we think, process, and store information

Answer 21

Cognitive Neuroscience

Question 22

Biology vs Experience
We are a product of both

Answer 22

Nature-Nurture

Question 23

Integrated 3 basic levels of psych: biological analysis, psychological analysis, and sociocultural analysis

Answer 23

Biopsychosocial Approach

Question 24

Unconscious and childhood trauma drives our behavior

Answer 24

Psychodynamic Approach