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Mod 1 History scope
History of Psychologyl
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research agree with the (1) but not with (2). | Behaviorism |
| Historically signinficant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth. | Humanistic Psychology |
| The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. | Psychology |
| the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today's science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nuture. | Nature-nurture issue |
| the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon. | levels of analysis |
| an intergrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of anyalysis. | biopsychosocial approach |
| a person who studies brain cirucits that produce the physical lstte of bing "red in the face" and "hot under the collar". How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory expeiences. | someone working from a neuroschience perspective |
| a person who analyzes how anger faciltated the survival of our ancestors' genes. How the natrual selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes. | someone working from the evolutionary perspective. |
| a person who studies how heredity and experience influence our individual differences in tempermant. How much our genes and our environment influence out individual differences. | someone working from the behavior genetics perspective. |
| a person who might study the facial expressions and body gestures that accompany anger or attempt to determine which external stimuli result in anger responses or acts. How we learn observable responses. | Someone working from a behavioral perspective |
| a person who might study how our interpretation of a situation affects our anger and how our anger affects our thinking. How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information. | Someone working from the cognitive perspective. |
| a person who might explore which situation produces the most anger, and how expressions vary across cultural contexts. How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures. | Someone working from the social-cultural perspective. |
| A person who views an outburst as an outlet for unconscious hostility. How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts. | Someone working from the psychodynamic perspective. |
| Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base. | basic research |
| Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems. | applied research |
| a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (school, work, marriage) and in achieving greater well-being. | counseling psychology |
| a branch of psychology that studies, assess, and treats people with psychological disorders. | clinical psychology |
| a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy. | psychiatry |
| What does psychology help teach when studied? | How to ask and answer important questions- how to think critically ideas and claims. |
| A person who explores the links between brain and mind | biological psychologist |
| A person who studies our changing ablilities from womb to tomb | developmental psycholgist |
| A person who experiments with how we percieve, think, and solve problems. | cognitive psychologist |
| A person who investigates our persistent traits. | Personality psychologist |
| A person who explores how we view and affect one another. | Social psychologist |
| a study method incorporating five steps: Survey, Question, Read, Rehearse, Review | SQ3R |
| what is psycholgy's historic big issue? | Nature versus nuture |
| An experiment where an experimental apparatus that measuered the time lag between peoples hearing a ball hit a platform and their pressing a telegraph key was performed by who? | William Wundt |
| A prominent psychology text was published in 1890 by what author? | William James |
| The scientific study of behavior and mental processes | Psychology |
| John B. Watson redefined psycholgy as | "the science of observable behavior" |
| A behavioral perspective in psychology would be most likely to study | the effect of school uniforms on classroom behaviors. |
| A psychologist who treats emotionally troubled adolescents at the local mental health agency is most likely to be a/an | clincical psychologist |
| A psychologist who conducts basic research to expand psychology's knowledge base would be most likely to | observe 3 and 6 year old children solving puzzles and analyze. |
| What was the most outstanding event defining the founding of scientific psychology? | William Wundt's opening of the Leipzig psychology lab. Along with William James, used introspection-self-examination of ones own emotional states and mental processes-to explore the mind. James wrote an important psychology textbook. |
| What are psychology's major level of analysis? | The 3 major levels are the biological, psychological, and social-cultural. |
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