Basics
Define Behavior
Actions in response to a stimulus.
Define Introspection
A person's self-reported conscious experience.
Define Developmental Psychology
Define the Biological Perspective
Explains behavior in terms of brain structures, hormones, and genetics.
What is a focus on the mind as sensations, feelings, and images?
Structuralism
Define Mental Processes
Cognitive activities or thoughts in response to a stimulus.
Define structuralism
A focus on the mind as sensations, feelings, and images.
Define Social Psychology
Psychology of how others influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Define the Behavioral Perspective
Focuses on observable behavior and how it is learned through conditioning and environmental influences.
What is the process by which experiments must be conducted to be considered accurate?
Scientific Method
Define Psychology
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes and how they function in the brain.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt? What is the main thing we remember him for doing?
The "Father of Psychology", he started the first psychological lab in Germany in 1879.
If a person thinks that they have some sort of disorder or mental issue and would like a professional to help them with it, they would go to a specialist in what branch of Psychology?
Clinical Psychology
If a person is trying to gain self-actualization, which perspective would they want to use?
Humanistic Perspective
Define Sociology
The scientific study of human society, social behavior, and social institutions.
Ivan Pavlov trained his dogs to salivate after a bell rung by ringing it just before they were fed hundreds of times. What did Pavlov call this process?
Classical Conditioning
Plato defined the brain as being full of "innate knowledge", what did he mean by this?
That the brain begins with all knowledge within it, this knowledge is then unlocked through certain experiences.
If someone was looking into what research method they want to use in order to test a hypothesis, they would be using what branch of Psychology?
Experimental Psychology
What perspective would you use to look at mental processes such as thinking, memory, problem-solving, and decision-making?
Cognitive Perspective
An experiment chose to study one person and their changes over time, this is a choice for the experiments ______?
Research Method
If I gave you a piece of candy after you got this question correct, reinforcing the behavior of answering a question correctly, what process would I be carrying out?
Operant Conditioning
Aristotle described the brain as being a "blank slate", what did he mean by this? ALSO!- What was Psychology called before it gained the name Psychology?
The brain begins as an empty canvas at birth that is filled through experiences.
Which branch of Psychology argues that we have the ability to use upper brain functions to process a situation before we act?
Cognitive Psychology
Which perspective focuses on unconscious drives and early childhood experiences?
Psychodynamic Perspective
A person is given a survey and asked how they feel after a roller coaster, what method is this survey using to gather results?
Introspection