Questions

Question 1

What is psychology?

Answer 1

Psychology is the study of behavior and mental processes.

Question 2

The study of mind, behavior, emotions, and thoughts

Answer 2

Psychology

Question 3

The word psychology is made up from two Greek words

Answer 3

“psychi”, which means souls and “logos” which means study of knowledge.

Question 4

There are health professionals that understand their patients and themselves

Answer 4

Psychologists

Question 5

Psychology is also

Answer 5

The science of animal and human behavior.

Question 6

From whom was said that psychology is the science of human behavior?

Answer 6

Walter Bowers Pillsbury

Question 7

From whom was said that psychology is a science, which aims to give us better understanding and control of the behavior of the organism as a whole.

Answer 7

William McDoughall

Question 8

From whom was said that psychology is the investigation of human and animal behavior and the mental and physiological processes.

Answer 8

Jackson

Question 9

A complete state of physical, mental and social well-being, not just the absence of disease or illness.

Answer 9

Health

Question 10

Is a state of emotional, psychological, and social wellness.

Answer 10

Mental Health

Question 11

Is a clinically significant behavioural or psychological sindrome or pattern that occurs in an individual.

Answer 11

Mental Illness

Question 12

Some philosopher think that mind and behaviour could be studied with?

Answer 12

Scientific Methods

Question 13

Who is the father of psychology?

Answer 13

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 14

When and where was founded the firt psychological laboratory?

Answer 14

In 1879, at the University of Leipzig

Question 15

Who founded this psychological laboratory?

Answer 15

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 16

The first to measure human behavior

Answer 16

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 17

Who says that all being have souls that animate them?

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Aristotle

Question 18

Who says that people are born with a collection of knowledge and some ideas inborn (perfection)

Answer 18

Rene Descardes

Question 19

Who says that at birth, human mind is like a blank slate, in which experiences write knoweledge.

Answer 19

John Locke

Question 20

Who says that human body is like a machine because it can be studied?

Answer 20

Rene Descardes

Question 21

Considered the father of mental tests

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Francis Galton

Question 22

This psychologist established the first American laboratory

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G. Stanley Hall

Question 23

Reported the first experiment on memory

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Hermann Ebbinhaus

Question 24

Aims to study consciousness in what we see (perception), what we feel (sensation), and our emotions (affection).

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Structuralism

Question 25

A theory about the nature of mental states. Defined by what they do, not by what they’re made of.

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Functionalism

Question 26

John B. Watson believed psychology should focus on observable behavior, not internal thoughts or feelings, since we can’t see those. He thought behaviors are automatic responses to things happening around us.

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Behaviorism

Question 27

B.F. Skinner later introduced operant conditioning, which looks at how rewards or punishments can make certain behaviors more or less likely to happen.

Answer 27

Behaviorism

Question 28

What is Operant conditioning?

Answer 28

Rewards and punishments

Question 29

This theory believes we should study psychology as a whole, not by breaking it into parts, as we understand things better that way.

Answer 29

Gestal Theory