Textbook Modules 1-3 Flashcards
What is Structuralism?
Studying the mind through its structure, what are the sensations upon hearing a sound, smelling a rose, or tasting.
What is Behaviorism?
The belief of psychology between the scientific study of observable behavior.
What is psychoanalytic psycholoy?
The belief of the unconscious mind and childhood upbringing affecting behavior.
What is humanistic psychology?
focuses on the growth potential and need for acceptance, love and the environments that can either promote or limit growth.
What is nature vs nuture?
Nature is genetics, while nuture is conditioned by the environment/social aspects around us
What is contemporary psychology?
Current psychology, it revolves around both factors of nature and nuture.
What are the three levels of analysis in psychology
Biopsychosocial, biological, psychological, and social-cultural
What is hindsight bias?
The fact that it is simple to know an answer when a conclusion is already made
What did Freud and Karen Horney study in the late 1800s-1930s
The unconscious aspects of psychology
What did BF Skinner, John B Watson, and Rosalie Raynor study in the 1920s?
Behaviorism
What did Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow study in the 1960s?
Humanistic Psychology
Basic vs Applied research
Basic research is the basis for what psychology is built on through science, applied research is applying that to real world situations
What is SQ3R?
Survey, question, read, retrieve, review
What did Titchener engage people to do to study the mind?
Introspection, the idea of looking inward to explain the current actions and feelings in great detail
Who conducted the first sociological experiment with a sound and the pressing of a button in 1879
Wilhelm Wundt
