General
What is Psychology?
Psychology is the science of human behaviour and mental processes.
Who is the biggest name for psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
What is personality?
Personality is an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
What is homeostasis?
Creation of stability for everything to work together properly
What did Erik Erikson create and what were they used to understand?
What is the Rorschach test?
The Rorschach Inkblot Test is a psychological test where individuals are shown a series of 10 symmetrical inkblot images and asked: "What do you see?"
Ivan Pavlov studied classical conditioning, How?
Trained dogs to salivate when hearing a bell by training them that a treat will come after the bell
What are the four functional types of Personality by Carl Jung?
Sensing, thinking, intuition and feeling
What are the two sides of the brain called and what do they represent?
Right Hemisphere (Creativity)
Left Hemisphere (Logic)
What stage of life is part of adolescence (13-17) and what is the main question associated with this stage?
Identity vs Role Confusion - Who am I and where am I going?
What are the four schools of psychology?
Behaviourism, Psychoanalysis, Humanism, Cognitive
What was the Skinner box and who created it?
B.F. Skinner - studied operant conditioning and classical conditioning by placing animals in a box where it must learn to leave
What are the big 5 ?
Personality traits categorized into 5 factors (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism)
What is the job of the brainstem and what are the main parts we discussed?
Purpose: Relays signals between brain and spinal cord
Pons and the Medulla Oblongata
Unconscious, Conscious and Preconscious
What were Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt and William James known for?
Wundt - first school of psychological thought (Structuralism) - no longer in use
James - second perspective (Functionalism)
What was Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
A pyramid to show how an individual seeks to access their idealized self but must complete all of the stages of the pyramid in order to access it.
Which is NOT a contributing factor to Mental Illness that we discussed?
Chemical imbalance, Substance Abuse, Eye colour, Trauma, hereditary
Eye colour
Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, Occipital
What is the Id, Ego and Superego - define each.
Id: instinctual part of the mind, little devil on the shoulder focused on "I want"
Ego: rational part of the mind, operates on the reality principle - focused on consequences that could occur
Superego: the moral centre of the mind, little angel on the shoulder focused on what is right and wrong
What is the Stroop Effect and what 3 theories explain why it exists?
Who did the Bobo doll experiment and what did it study?
Albert Bandura - used to study the development of violence in children as they watched how adults interact with a doll before being allowed to interact with it
Mood Disorders
Which part of the mind is most important for memory?
Hippocampus
Name 3 different defence mechanisms that we discussed and what they mean.
Denial: Claiming/believing that what is true is false
Displacement: Redirecting emotions to a substitute target
Projection: Attributing uncomfortable feelings to others.
Rationalization: Creating false but credible justifications.
Reaction Formation: Overacting oppositely to the fear.
Regression: Going back to acting as a child
Repression: Pushing uncomfortable thoughts into subconscious
Sublimation: Redirecting wrong urges into socially acceptable actions