intro unit

Question 1

Aristotle

Answer 1

Our body and mind connected
Knowledge is mostly from experience

Question 2

First psych experiment

Answer 2

Wilhelm Wundt
Measured reaction times

Question 3

William James

Answer 3

Wrote the first psych textbook

Question 4

Mary Calkins

Answer 4

-Wanted a Ph.D. from Harvard
-Didn’t give it to her bc shes is a woman
-First head woman of the APA
-The first head of APA

Question 5

Margaret Washburn

Answer 5

The first woman to get a Ph.D. in psychology in America

Question 6

1920s

Answer 6

When we started using the word of psychology

Question 7

Structuralism

Answer 7

-Early school of thougbht promoted by Wundt and Tichener
-Used introspection (thinking about how you think) to reveal the structure of the human mind

Question 8

Functionalism

Answer 8

-James and influenced by darwin
-Mental and behavioral process function
* How they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish

Question 9

Humanism

Answer 9

How humans are building their whole life

Question 10

Maslows pyramid

Answer 10

-Hierarchy of needs
-Growth potential
-Love and acceptance

Question 11

Rogers

Answer 11

humanistic psych

Question 12

Empiricism

Answer 12

all learning comes from only experience and observations

Question 13

Cognitive psych

Answer 13

How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information
-Memory
-Language
-How we make decisions

Question 14

Plato

Answer 14

Believed knowledge is inborn, and mind + body are separate

Question 15

Socrates

Answer 15

Believed knowledge is inborn, and mind + body are separate

Question 16

Locke

Question 17

Francis Bacon

Answer 17

empiricism

Question 18

Edward Titchener

Answer 18

founded the idea of structuralism

Question 19

G. Stanley Hall

Answer 19

developed his influential concept of “genetic psychology,”

Question 20

Max Wertheimer

Answer 20

founded Gestalt psychology (the whole of anything is greater than its parts)

Question 21

Ivan Pavlov

Answer 21

discovered of conditioning principles

Question 22

Jean Piaget

Answer 22

helped add to our understanding of children’s intellectual growth

Question 23

Skinner

Answer 23

operant conditioning – the idea that behavior is determined by its consequences, be they reinforcements or punishments,

Question 24

Socio-Cultural Psych

Answer 24

How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures

Question 25

Social pyschologists

Answer 25

study interpersonal and group dynamics and social challenges,

Question 26

Clinical psychologists

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assess, diagnose, and treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

Question 27

behaviorists

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behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment

Question 28

applied researcher

Answer 28

apply research to real world

Question 29

basic researcher

Answer 29

studying something to learn abt it

Question 30

psychodynamics

Answer 30

focuses on the psychological roots of emotional suffering

Question 31

cocktail party effect

Answer 31

tune everything else out in a loud environment accept the person you are talking to but when someone says your name u notice

Question 32

conformity

Answer 32

go w/ what others do

Question 33

deindividualization

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more likely do do something rebellious when in a larger group

Question 34

figure and ground

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images where your brain has to pick which color is the background

Question 35

ocipital lobe

Answer 35

in the back where vision is processed

Question 36

sympathetic nervus system

Answer 36

fight or flight response

Question 37

procedural memory

Answer 37

remembering by steps

Question 38

instinct

Answer 38

inborn response

Question 39

Yerkes Dodson law

Answer 39

you perform best under intermediate stress levels

Question 40

optimal arousal theory

Answer 40

we all have an optimal amount of arousal- not being stressed or bored