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Question 1

What is the nature-nurture issue in psychology?

Answer 1

explores the extent to which biological factors (nature) and environmental factors (nurture) influence human development and behavior.

Question 2

Who proposed that the mind is a blank slate?

Answer 2

Locke

Question 3

What did Descartes believe about ideas?

Answer 3

Some ideas are innate.

Question 4

What is Darwin’s contribution to psychology?

Answer 4

Natural selection - valuable traits are passed on.

Question 5

What are the three main levels of analysis in psychology?

Answer 5

Biological, psychological, socio-cultural.

Question 6

What does the biopsychosocial approach incorporate?

Answer 6

The three levels of analysis.

Question 7

What is the focus of behavioral psychology?

Answer 7

Study of observable behavior and explanation by principles of learning.

Question 8

What does biological psychology link?

Answer 8

Links between biological (genetic, neural) and psychological processes.

Question 9

What is the emphasis of humanistic psychology?

Answer 9

Focus on a person’s potential for growth.

Question 10

What is cognitive psychology?

Answer 10

Scientific study of all mental activities associated with thinking and remembering.

Question 11

What does evolutionary psychology study?

Answer 11

The evolution of behavior and mind, using natural selection.

Question 12

What does psychodynamic psychology focus on?

Answer 12

Unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior.

Question 13

How does socio-cultural psychology view behavior?

Answer 13

How situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking.

Question 14

What is psychometrics?

Answer 14

Study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes and traits.

Question 15

What is basic research?

Answer 15

Research for its own sake.

Question 16

What is applied research?

Answer 16

Study that attempts to solve practical problems.

Question 17

What does a developmental psychologist study?

Answer 17

Changing abilities from womb to tomb.

Question 18

What is the role of an educational psychologist?

Answer 18

Studying influences on teaching and learning.

Question 19

What does a school psychologist do?

Answer 19

Assist specific students within a school setting.

Question 20

What do personality psychologists investigate?

Answer 20

Our persistent traits.

Question 21

What do social psychologists explore?

Answer 21

How we view and affect one another.

Question 22

What is the focus of industrial-organizational (i/o) psychology?

Answer 22

Optimizing human behavior in workplaces.

Question 23

What is the role of a human factors psychologist?

Answer 23

How people and machines interact among physical environments.

Question 24

What do counseling psychologists help with?

Answer 24

Problems in living, work, school, marriage, and greater well-being.

Question 25

What does a clinical psychologist do?

Answer 25

Studies, assesses and treats people with psychological disorders.

Question 26

What distinguishes a psychiatrist from a psychologist?

Answer 26

Psychiatrists are medical doctors licensed to prescribe drugs.

Question 27

What is the aim of positive psychology?

Answer 27

Promoting strengths that help people to thrive.

Question 28

What does community psychology study?

Answer 28

How people interact with their environments and social institutions affect groups.

Question 29

What does SQ3R stand for?

Answer 29

Survey, question, read, retrieve, review.

Question 30

What is the testing effect?

Answer 30

Learning and memory are enhanced by actively retrieving rather than simply rereading.