Chapter 1 intro to psych

Question 1

What professional organization represents psychologists in the U.S.?

Answer 1

American Psychological Association (APA)

Question 2

What focuses on observing and controlling behavior?

Answer 2

Behaviorism

Question 3

What is the study of how biology influences behavior?

Answer 3

Biopsychology

Question 4

What model asserts that biology, psychology, and social factors interact to determine an individual’s health?

Answer 4

Biopsychosocial Model

Question 5

What area of psychology focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and other problematic patterns of behavior?

Answer 5

Clinical psychology

Question 6

What is the study of cognitions, or thoughts, and their relationships to experience and actions?

Answer 6

Cognitive psychology

Question 7

What is the area of psychology that focuses on improving emotional, social, vocational, and other aspects of the lives of psychologically healthy individals?

Answer 7

Counseling psychology

Question 8

What psychology is the scientific study of development across a lifespan?

Answer 8

Developmental psychology

Question 9

What is functionalism?

Answer 9

Focused on how mental activities helped an organism adapt to its environment

Question 10

What is humanism?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What is introspection?

Answer 11

Process by which someone examines their own conscious experience in an attempt to break it into its component parts

Question 12

What psychology studies patterns of thought and behaviors that make each individual unique?

Answer 12

personality psychology

Question 13

What is a personality trait?

Answer 13

Consistent pattern of thought and behavior

Question 14

What is psychanalytic theory?

Answer 14

A theory that focuses on the role of he unconscious in affecting conscious behavior

Question 15

What is psychology?

Answer 15

scientific study of the mind and behavior

Question 16

What is structuralism?

Answer 16

Understanding the conscious experience through introspection

Question 17

What area of psychology focuses on the interactions between mental and emotional factors and physical performance in sports, exercise, and other activities?

Answer 17

sports and exercise psychology

Question 18

Who founded structuralism?

Answer 18

Wilhelm Wundt, 1879

Question 19

Who founded functionalism?

Answer 19

William James

Question 20

Who founded psychoanalytic theory?

Answer 20

Sigmund Freud

Question 21

Who is the father of behaviorism?

Answer 21

John B Watson

Question 22

Who founded humanism? (2)

Answer 22

Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

Question 23

Who was involved with Gestalt psychology? (3)

Answer 23

Wertheimer, Koffka, and Kohler

Question 24

What is Gestalt psychology?

Answer 24

Focuses on humans as a whole rather than individual parts

Question 25

Who was considered the first psychologists?

Answer 25

German scientists Wilhelm Wundt

Question 26

Who was the first American psychologist?

Answer 26

William James

Question 27

What did Abraham Maslow propose?

Answer 27

The hierarchy of needs: as long as basic needs are met then higher levels needs would begin to motivate behavior

Question 28

What did Carl Rogers suggest 3 things a therapist need to display?

Answer 28

- empathy - genuineness - unconditional positive regard

Question 29

Who was the first woman to earn a doctorate in Psychology?

Answer 29

Margaret Floy Washburn

Question 30

Who discovered the concept of classical conditioning?

Answer 30

Ivan Pavlov