chapter 1 - intro/theories

Question 1

Known as the “founder of psychology”

Answer 1

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 2

What is the root word of “psych”

Answer 2

Soul

Question 3

Nature VS nurture

Answer 3

genetic inheritance VS environment and experience

Question 4

Principal contributors to Behaviourism?

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John B. Watson, Ivan Pavlov, B. F Skinner

Question 5

Subject matter of behaviourism?

Answer 5

Effects of environment on the overt behaviour of humans and animals

Question 6

Basic premise of behaviourism?

Answer 6

Only observable events (stimulus-response relations) can be studied scientifically

Question 7

Principal contributors to psychoanalytic theory?

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Sigmund freud, carl jung, alfred adler

Question 8

Subject matter of psychoanalytical theory?

Answer 8

unconscious determinants of behaviour

Question 9

Basic premise of psychoanalytical theory?

Answer 9

Unconscious motives and experiences in early childhood govern personality and mental disorders

Question 10

Principal contributors to humanistic perspective?

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Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow

Question 11

Subject matter of the humanistic approach?

Answer 11

Unique aspects of human experience

Question 12

Basic premise of humanistic theory?

Answer 12

Humans are free, rational beings with the potential for personal growth, and they are fundamentally different than animals

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Principal contributors to cognitive approach?

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Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, Herbert Simon

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Subject matter of cognitive approach?

Answer 14

Thoughts, mental processes

Question 15

Basic premise of cognitive approach?

Answer 15

Human behaviour cannot be fully understood w/out examining how ppl acquire, store and process info

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Principal contributors to Biological perspective?

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James Olds, Sperry, Hubel and Wiesal

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Subject matter of biological psychology?

Answer 17

Psychological bases of behaviour in humans and animals

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Basic premise of biological perspective?

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An organisms functioning can be explained in terms of the bodily structures and biochemical processes that underlie behaviour

Question 19

Principal contributors to evolutionary perspective?

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Buss, Daly, Wilson, Cosmides, Tooby

Question 20

Subject matter of evolutionary perspective?

Answer 20

Evolutionary bases of behaviour in humans and animals

Question 21

Basic premise of evolutionary perspective?

Answer 21

Behaviour patterns have evolved to solve adaptive problems; natural selection favors behaviours that enhance reproductive success

Question 22

Cognition

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mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. cognition involves thinking or conscious experience

Question 23

Applied psychology

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branch of psychology concerned with everyday, practical problems -> psychologists who provide professional service to public

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Clinical psychology

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branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems

Question 25

James Mark Baldwin

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Opened the first experimental laboratory in Canada. It was established at UFT in 1891.

Question 26

"i think therefore i am"

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descartes

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(beginnings of psych) Structuralism

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studied diff structures of mental processes -> inner workings of the mind. Used introspection -> self examination and looking within

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Functionalism

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Need to know how consciousness was formed and how they function together -> not what the mind does but instead its purpose

Question 29

focus on how unconscious mental processes direct behaviour

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psychoanalytic perspective

Question 30

we are born as a blank slate and the environment prints upon us what we are to become

Answer 30

behaviourism

Question 31

individuals motivated by a need for self-actualization -> to be the best and all u can be

Answer 31

humanistic perspective

Question 32

mental processes involved in knowing -> ideas and thoughts are more important than behaviour

Answer 32

Cognitive perspective

Question 33

behaviour and biology interact in important ways

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biopsychological

Question 34

focus on cultural diversity

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Cultural psychology

Question 35

focuses on how social factors affect both behaviour and mental processes

Answer 35

social perspectice

Question 36

behaviours that help organisms adapt will be passed on to successive generations

Answer 36

charles darwin