Ch. 1

Question 1

What is psychology

Answer 1

The scientific study of the mind and behavior

Question 2

What is the empirical method

Answer 2

acquiring knowledge based on observation, including experimentation rather than logical arguments and authorities.

Question 3

Who were the founders of psychology

Answer 3

Whilhelm Wundt and William James

Question 4

Define introspection

Answer 4

a process by which someone examines their own conscious experience as objectively as possible

Question 5

Define Structuralism

Answer 5

The belief that process and structure in more important than function

Question 6

Define functionalism

Answer 6

The belief that function is more important than structure

Question 7

Describe behaviorism

Answer 7

focusing psychological study on observing and controlling behavior

Question 8

describe humanism

Answer 8

a perspective within psychology that emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans.

Question 9

What disciplines did Wundt follow

Answer 9

Introspection and structuralism

Question 10

What discipline did William James help establish

Answer 10

Functionalism

Question 11

Define Psychoanalytic theory and state who pioneered it

Answer 11

focuses on unconscious and early child hood experience. Pioneered by Sigmund Freud

Question 12

James Watson believed in what field of psychology

Answer 12

Behaviorism

Question 13

Maslow and Rogers followed what field of psychological study

Answer 13

Humanism