Week 1

Question 0

Localisation of function

Answer 0

Different areas of the brain execute different functions

Question 1

Biological psychology or behavioural neuroscience

Answer 1

Electrical and chemical processes that are underpin mental events

Question 2

Broca’s area

Answer 2

Language production

Question 3

Wernickes area

Answer 3

Language understanding

Question 4

Psychology is

Answer 4

Scientific investigation of mental process and behaviour

Question 5

Titchner

Answer 5

Structuralism

Question 6

Damage to the front section of the left hemisphere or brockas are will cause?

Answer 6

Problems producing speech

Question 7

What is a paradigm

Answer 7

Broad system of theoretical assumptions employed by a scientific community

Question 8

Two schools of thought that dominated psych in its early years

Answer 8

Structuralism and functionalism

Question 9

Psychodynamic perspective sites

Answer 9

Our thoughts and behaviours are influenced by conscious and unconscious forces that interact and may be opposing

Question 10

Psychodynamic/Psychoanalysis approach originator

Answer 10

Sigmund Freud

Question 11

WIlliam James

Answer 11

Functionalism

Question 12

Behaviourism

Answer 12

Pavlov and skinner

Question 13

Wundt

Answer 13

First Psych Lab

Question 14

Humanistic Perspective

Answer 14

Maslow

Question 15

Humanisitic perspective assumes that

Answer 15

Humans are innately good and will almost always chose adaptive and self actualising behaviours

Question 16

Behaviourist perspective

Answer 16

Focuses on learning and the way environmental events control behaviour.

Question 17

Cognitive Perspective

Answer 17

The way people perceive process and retrieve information

Question 18

Humanistic Perspective

Answer 18

Uniqueness of the individual and their immediate experiences

Question 19

Evolutionary perspective

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Human tendencies evolved because they helped our ancestors to survive and reproduce.

Question 20

Carl rRogers

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Humanisitc

Question 21

Rene Descartes

Answer 21

Cognitive

Question 22

Darwin

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Evolutionary

Question 23

Psychodynamic

Answer 23

Freud

Question 24

Behaviourist

Answer 24

Skinner

Question 25

Humans and other animals are like machines and the mind is like a black box. Behaviour is learned and selected by its environmental consequences

Answer 25

Behaviourist

Question 26

The mind is like a computer enduring patterns of thought are like software

Answer 26

Cognitive

Question 27

Life is like a bottle of milk the cream always rises to the top.. Emphasising that everyone times to be the best they can be

Answer 27

Humanistic

Question 28

Consciousness is like the tip of an iceberg the mind is like a battleground of warring fractions

Answer 28

Psychodynamic

Question 29

Life is a race for survival and reproduction

Answer 29

Evolutionary

Question 30

Biospychology

Answer 30

Investigates the physical basis of psychological phenomena such as thought emotion and stress

Question 31

Developmental psychology

Answer 31

Studies the way thought, feeling and behaviour develop through the life span from infancy to death.

Question 32

Social Psychology

Answer 32

Examines the interactions of individual psychology and group phenomena

Question 33

Clinical psychology

Answer 33

focuses on the nature and treatment of psychological processes that lead to emotional distress

Question 34

Cognitive psychology

Answer 34

Examines the nature of thought memory sensation perception and language

Question 35

Personality Psychology

Answer 35

Peoples enduring ways of responding in different situations

Question 36

Organisation psychology

Answer 36

Behaviour of people in organisations

Question 37

educational psychology

Answer 37

Psychological processes in learning

Question 38

Health psychology

Answer 38

psychological factors involved in health and disease

Question 39

Counselling psychology

Answer 39

Provides diagnosis and assessment

Question 40

Sport Psychology

Answer 40

Focuson on ways to enhance performance

Question 41

Forensic Psychlogy

Answer 41

relevant to the prevention and treatment of criminal behaviour

Question 42

Positive psychology

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Examines the strengths and virtues that make individuals flourish and applies this knowledge

Question 43

Conservation psychology

Answer 43

the reciprocal relationonships between humans and nature with a focus on changing attidues and behaviours to encourage conservation of the environment.