Approaches to Psychology

Question 1

Who’s ideas and experiments were possibly the greatest single influence upon American psychology during the last years of the nineteenth century?

Answer 1

Sir Frances Galton

Question 2

Natural Selection

Answer 2

A principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.

Question 3

Name the type of psychology that emphasizes the growth potential for one’s personal growth.

Answer 3

Humanistic Psychology

Question 4

What are the three main levels of analysis?

Answer 4

Biological, psychological, and cultural influences

Question 5

Biological psychology

Answer 5

Study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in humans and non-human animals

Question 6

What Russian physiologist pioneered the study of learning?

Answer 6

Ivan Pavlov

Question 7

The exploration of behavior and thinking through the use of experiments

Answer 7

​Experimental Psychology

Question 8

Psychodynamic Psychology

Answer 8

A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders.

Question 9

Darwinism

Answer 9

The theory of the evolution of species by natural selection defined by Charles Darwin

Question 10

Aristotle, Plato, Descartes, Socrates, and Locke were part of what era of psychology?

Answer 10

Prescientific Psychology

Question 11

What type of psychology is the study of an individual’s characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting?

Answer 11

Personality Psychology

Question 12

Psychology

Answer 12

The scientific study of the human mind and it’s functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given text.

Question 13

Treatment from a trained therapist using psychological techniques to help someone overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

Answer 13

Psychotherapy

Question 14

What branch of psychology focuses on the interaction of people, machines, and physical environments?

Answer 14

Human factors psychology

Question 15

Introspection

Answer 15

Examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes

Question 16

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 16

the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language).

Question 17

What is the branch of psychology that studies the unconscious and how it influences behavior?

Answer 17

Psychodynamic Psychology

Question 18

Name the study that aims so solve practical problems.

Answer 18

Applied Research

Question 19

This man did an experiment on human reaction time and lived in 1879

Answer 19

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 20

Aristotle

Answer 20

Student of Plato, but disagreed with dualism. Believed the mind was a blank slate that experience wrote on.

Question 21

What is basic research in psychology?

Answer 21

pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base

Question 22

Empiricism

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the view that knowledge originates in experiences and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation

Question 23

Clinical Psychology

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The branch of psychology that deals with assessing and treating mental illness and disabilities.

Question 24

How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures.

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Social-culture psychology

Question 25

Structuralism

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An early method of psychology that engaged people to self-reflective introspection.

Question 26

Observation

Answer 26

A remark, statement, or comment based on something one has seen, heard or observed.

Question 27

Psychiatry

Answer 27

A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders.

Question 28

Who was Aristotle's mentor and believed in Dualism?

Answer 28

Plato

Question 29

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 29

B.F skinner

Question 30

What type of psychology is the scientific study of human learning?

Answer 30

Educational Psychology

Question 31

What is behavioral psychology?

Answer 31

Psychology that combines elements of philosophy and methodology

Question 32

Sigmund Freud

Answer 32

Founding father of psyhoanalysis

Question 33

Psychometrics

Answer 33

The field study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological mesurment

Question 34

William James

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Born Jan 11 1842 Died August. 26 1910 The first educator to teach psychology in America

Question 35

What is natural selection

Answer 35

Gradual process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population

Question 36

Bio psychology approach

Answer 36

General model or approach positing that biological factors

Question 37

What is the awareness and understanding of ones own thought process?

Answer 37

Metacognition

Question 38

What is social psychology?

Answer 38

the study of the manner in which the personality, attitudes, motivations, and behavior of the individual influence and are influenced by social groups

Question 39

Developmental psychology

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A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive and social change throughout a lifespan

Question 40

4 objectives of psychology

Answer 40

Define, explain, predict, influence

Question 41

SQ3R

Answer 41

Survey, question, read, rehearse, review

Question 42

Functionalism

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A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function-how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish

Question 43

Industrial-organizational psychology

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The application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces

Question 44

The mind and body separate.

Answer 44

Dualism

Question 45

Rene Descartes

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René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic.

Question 46

Cognitive psychology

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Cognitive psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes. It is the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems.

Question 47

independent variable

Answer 47

the experimental factor that is manipulated;the variable whose effect is being effected

Question 48

experimentation:

Answer 48

a research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more to observe the effects on some behavior or mental process.