Ch 1 Evolution of Psychology

Question 0

Why is Stanley g. hall noteworthy in the history psych?

Answer 0

He established the American psychological association and was the first president of it

Question 1

What is Wilhelm Wundt known for?

Answer 1

The establishment of the first formal lab for research in psychology

Question 2

What approach of psych can be compared to examining a movie frame by frame rather than viewing it as a moving image?

Answer 2

structuralism

Question 3

A tennis coach insists that he can make any reasonable healthy individual into an internationally competitive tennis player. the coach’s perspective echoes he statements of which psychologist?

Answer 3

Watson

Question 4

a young man forgets to pick up his mother at the airport. Which approach would suggest that his forgetfullness is an unconscious way of saying that he does not welcome her visit?

Answer 4

Psychoanalytic

Question 5

what does B.F Skinner believe in?

Answer 5

Free will is an illusion!

Question 6

What type of psychologist would be most likely to look after someone who needs help with their endocrine system and their genetic mechanisms?

Answer 6

physiological psychologist

Question 7

what two types of psych perspectives hold similar viewpoints?

Answer 7

functionalism and evolutionary psychology

Question 8

what is the theoretical perspective of positive psychology?

Answer 8

humans have a great capacity for achievement and happiness. research in psychology can help us understand and reach those positive states

Question 9

If you wanted to become a psychiatrist.. what tyoe of degree would be required?

Answer 9

M.D

Question 10

In which area of psychology did Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb conduct research?

Answer 10

Neuro psychology

Question 11

what are the 7 major research areas in psychology?

Answer 11

developmental
social
experimental
physiological 
cognitive 
personality
psychometrics

Question 12

what are the four professional specialities in psychology?

Answer 12

clinical
counselling
educational
industrial

Question 13

what did Wilhelm Wundt focus on?

Answer 13

consciousness

Question 14

what is structuralism?

Answer 14

to study psych in terms of consciousness into elements and investigate how they’re related

Question 15

what is functionalism?

Answer 15

to study psych based on the belief that psych should investigate the function of consciousness

Question 16

What is behaviourism based on?

Answer 16

the idea that psych should only study observable behaviour

Question 17

what is introspection, and what theory does it work with?

Answer 17

Structuralism.

Introspection is the self-observation of ones own conscious experience

Question 18

True or false, 2 decades before Watsons case of behaviourism, Pavlov discovered how stimulus response bonds are formed

Answer 18

true

Question 19

what does Freud believe?

Answer 19

Mental disorders are caused by personal conflicts at an unconscious level

Question 20

what does psychoanalytic theory attempt to explain?

Answer 20

personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behaviour

Question 21

is William James a functionalist or structuralist?

Answer 21

Functionalist

Question 22

true or false, psychology’s intellectual parents were classic philosophy and 19th century philosophy and psysiology

Answer 22

true

Question 23

Who is responsible for the rapid growth of psychology in North America?

Answer 23

Stanley g. Hall

Question 24

What psychological theory attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on the unconscious determinants of behaviour?

Answer 24

psychoanalytic

Question 25

true or false, Freud affected the trends of belief by revisiting the unconscious?

Answer 25

true

Question 26

Does skinner believe that people are controlled by their environment?

Answer 26

yes

Question 27

Why was Skinner controversial? 3 reasons

Answer 27

Analysis that Free will was an illusion
he was misrepresented in the press
he was advocating the undemocratic

Question 28

Why was humanism created?

Answer 28

because some people thought that psych was being dehumanized

Question 29

True or false, Carl Rogers (humanistic/existential) believed that ones sense of self influences behaviour

Answer 29

true

Question 30

When was the first Canadian psychology lab created and where was it?

Answer 30

Toronto, 1891

Question 31

When was psychology first deemed a separate academic topic in Canada?

Answer 31

1838

Question 32

what are the six psychological perspectives?

Answer 32

Psychoanalytic
behavioural 
humanistic 
cognitive 
biological 
evolutionary

Question 33

Who opened the first Canadian experimental psych lab?

Answer 33

James Baldwin

Question 34

What is the cognitive perspective and when was it popular?

Answer 34

thinking and conscious experience

was most popular in 1950s and 1960s

Question 35

when speaking about the cognitive perspective, what did chomsky and piaget focus on?

Answer 35

piaget- childhood development

chomsky- language

Question 36

What is the biological perspective and when was it most popular?

Answer 36

behvaiour can be explained in terms of bodily structures and biochemical processes
most popular in 1950s and 1960s

Question 37

why were cultural factors originally ignored? 5 reasons

Answer 37

costly 
ethnocentrism 
difficult 
time consuming 
might foster stereotypes

Question 38

what lead to the increasing amount of cutural studies in psych?

Answer 38

sociopolitical upheavals in 1960s-1970s
civil rights movement
advances in travel
the western world had become more diverse

Question 39

Explain evolutionary psychology

Answer 39

examines behavioual processes in terms of adaptive value

Question 40

When did evolutionary psychology first emerge?

Answer 40

1990s

Question 41

What context does psychology evolve in?

Answer 41

sociohistorical

Ex. WW2 created many jobs in psych

Question 42

true or false, behaviour is determined by multiple causes?

Answer 42

true