chapter 1

Question 1

behavioral genetics

Answer 1

subfield of psych

- studied the inheritance of traits related to behavior

Question 2

behavioral neuroscience

Answer 2

subfield of psych

- examines the biological basis of behavior

Question 3

clinical psychology

Answer 3

subfield of psych

- deals with study, diagnosis, treatment of psychological disorders

Question 4

clinical neuropsychology

Answer 4

subfield of psych
- unites the areas of biopsychology and clinical psycology, focusing on the relationship between biological factors and psychological disorders

Question 5

cognitive psychology

Answer 5

subfield of psych

- focuses on the study of higher mental processes

Question 6

conseling psychology

Answer 6

subfield of psych

- focuses primarily on educaitonal, social, and career adjustment problems

Question 7

cross- cultural psych

Answer 7

subfield of psych

- looks at similarities and differences in psychological functioning in and across cultures

Question 8

developmental psych

Answer 8

subfield of psych

- examines how people grow and hcange from conception - death

Question 9

educational psych

Answer 9

subfield of psych

- concerned with teaching and learning processes (relaitonship between motivation and school performance)

Question 10

enviornmental psych

Answer 10

considers relationship between people and their phsysical enviornment
subfield of psych

Question 11

evolutionary psych

Answer 11

subfield of psych

- considers how behavior is influenced by our genetic inheritance from our ancestors

Question 12

experimental psych

Answer 12

subfield of psych

- studies the processes or sensing, perceiving, learning, and thinking about the wolrd

Question 13

forsenic psych

Answer 13

subfield of psych

- focuses on legal issues (determining teh accuracy of witness memories)

Question 14

health psychology

Answer 14

subfield of psych

- explores the relationship between psychological factors and physical ailments or disease

Question 15

industrial/ organizational psych

Answer 15

subfield of psych

- concerned with psychology of the workplace

Question 16

personality psych

Answer 16

subfield of psych

- focuses on consistency in peoples behavior over time and traits taht differentiate people

Question 17

program evaluation

Answer 17

subfield of psych

- ofucses on assessing large scale problems to determien whether they meet goals

Question 18

psychology of women

Answer 18

subfield of psych

- focuses on issues such as discriminaton against women and causes of violence against women

Question 19

school psychology

Answer 19

subfield of psych

- devoted to conseling children in school who have academic or emotional probs

Question 20

social psychology

Answer 20

subfield of psych

- study of how people’s thoghts, feelings and actions are affected by others

Question 21

sport psychology

Answer 21

subfield of psych

- applies psychology to artistic activity / exercise

Question 22

wilhelm wundt

Answer 22

first psych lab in germany late 19th century

- structuralism and introspection

Question 23

structuralism

Answer 23

• WW

- uncovering fundamental mental components of perception, consciousness , thinking

Question 24

introspection

Answer 24

• used by structuralists
• present people with stimulus, ask them to describe what they are experiencing.
• map out thought process but no verificaiton of accuracy, hard to talk about emo feelings

Question 25

william james

Answer 25

- psych lab in cambrdige MA | - functionalism

Question 26

functionalism

Answer 26

- william james - focused on what mind does, functions of mental activity - ex. examine emotion of fear in preparing to deal with emergency, how ppl satsify needs thru behavior - stream of consciousness

Question 27

gestalt psych

Answer 27

our perception of objects is greater than individual elements that make up our perception - the whole is different from the sum of its parts

Question 28

what are the 5 perspectives of psych

Answer 28

BCPHN - behavioral - cognitive - psycho-dynamic - humanistic - neuroscience

Question 29

behavioral perspective

Answer 29

- focuses on observable behavior

Question 30

cognitive perspective

Answer 30

- examines how people understand and think about the world

Question 31

psychodynamic perspective

Answer 31

- believes behavior is motivated by inner unconscious forces over which a person has little ocntrol

Question 32

humanistic perspective

Answer 32

- contends that ppl can control their behavior, naturally try to reach full potential

Question 33

neuroscience perspective

Answer 33

- view behavior from the perspective of biological functioning