2.2 Fields and Domains

Question 1

investigating persistent traits and characteristics of people

Answer 1

personaility

Question 2

measurement of abilities, attitudes, and traits of human beings

Answer 2

psyhcometric

Question 3

how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior; and uses that info to treat psychological disorders (modern Freudians)

Answer 3

psyhcodynamic

Question 4

how expressions of emotions vary across cultural contexts (how we view and affect one another varies in different social-cultural groups)

Answer 4

social

Question 5

what has contemporary psychology shifted more to?

Answer 5

shifted towards physiological (biological) and cognitive processes

Question 6

what have past theories failed to do? (besides inherited behaviors)

Answer 6

they failed to explain our behaviors and minds

Question 7

some behaviors are inherited

Answer 7

evolutionary

Question 8

the interactions of genes, mood, personality, and social factors (culture, family, socioeconomic status) are determining factors

Answer 8

biopsychosocial

Question 9

understanding how the brain and its mental processes work (memory, learning, etc.)

Answer 9

cognitive

Question 10

our drive to group things into larger parts, or to help see as a whole

Answer 10

Gestalt principles