PSYC 101 General Psychology. Psychology Exam 1: Module 1-9. Portage Learning. Contains 100 Questions and Answers

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Psychology Exam 1: Module 1-9 1. What was Aristotle's method for understanding the mind?: to observe and make guesses to answer his questions 2. What is introspection?: looking inward of one's tho... ughts and feelings 3. What is structuralism?: studying the structures of the conscious mind 4. What did Titchener study?: structuralism 5. Who made the first laboratory and when?: Wundt in 1879 6. What is functionalism?: understanding mind and behavior by analyzing their function and purpose 7. Who studied functionalism?: James 8. What is behaviorism?: studying observable behavior 9. What did Watson study?: behaviorism; classical conditioning 10. What did Skinner study?: behaviorism; operant conditioning 11. What happened during the cognitive revolution?: focused returned to mental process 12. What is psychoanalysis?: the unconscious thought process and emotionalresponses to childhood experiences affect later behavior 13. Who studied psychoanalysis?: Freud 14. What is humanism?: focused ways current environments nurture vs nature limit growth potential and importance of having need for love and acceptance satisfied 15. Who studied humanism?: Maslow and Rogers 16. What is nature?: traits already set in place (birth) 17. What is nurture?: traits developed in response to our environment 18. What is the biopsychosocial approach?: genetic predispositions and mutations, natural selection of adaptive traits and behaviors passed down through generations 19. Congnitive perspective of psychological phenomena: how reliable is memory? how can we improve our thinking? 20. Social-cultural perspective of psychological phenomena: could our behaviors, skills, and attitudes be "downloads" from our culture? [Show More]

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