Intro to Psychology
Scientific study of the mind and behavior.
What is Psychology?
This perspective focuses on understanding the conscious experience through introspection.
What is structuralism?
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum
A father and a son go on a fishing trip. They each catch one fish. In total, there are only three fish. How is this possible?
The fishing party consists of a grandfather, his son, and his grandson.
He proposed a hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior.
Who is Abraham Maslow
Psych – Soul & Ology – Scientific study of are words from this European language
What is Greek?
This perspective emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans.
What is Humanisim?
The surface of the brain that is associated with out highest mental capabilities such as consciousness, thought, emotion, reasoning, language and memory.
What is the cerebral cortex
Three people check into a hotel room that costs $30. They each contribute $10, handing $30 to the hotel clerk. Later, the hotel clerk realizes that there was a mistake, and the room only costs $25. The hotel clerk gives $5 to the bellboy and asks him to return it to the guests. However, the bellboy decides to keep $2 for himself and gives $1 back to each guest. Now, each guest has paid $9 (totaling $27) and the bellboy has kept $2, making $29. What happened to the missing dollar?
There is no missing dollar. The guests have paid a total of $27 ($25 to the hotel and $2 to the bellboy).
This psychologist concentrated on how behavior was affected by its consequences.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This is the issue of how the mind is related to the brain.
What is the Mind-Brain Problem ?
This perspective is focused on how mental activities helped an organism adapt to its environment.
What is functionalism?
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.
What is the limbic system?
If an escalator is moving down, is it easier or harder to walk down?
Easier. Escalators are designed to assist walking, so if it’s moving down, it reduces the effort required to walk down.
He discovered the concept of classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This debate revolves around how our behavior results from forces over which we have no control or whether people can decide to act or behave in a certain way.
What is Freewill vs Determination?
This perspective focuses on observing and controlling behavior.
What is Behaviorism?
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter?
You are in a room with two doors. One door leads to certain death, and the other door leads to freedom. There are two guards, one in front of each door. One guard always tells the truth, and the other always lies. You don’t know which guard is which, and you don’t know which door leads to freedom. You can only ask a single question to one of the guards. What do you ask to find the door to freedom?
Ask either guard, “If I were to ask the other guard which door leads to freedom, what would he say?” Then choose the opposite of the answer.
This psychologist believed that one way the unconscious mind could be accessed was through dream analysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
A pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits.
What is Phrenology?
This perspective includes mental faculties such as thinking, memory, problem solving, and use of language and other forms of communication.
What is cognitive?
The brain and its parts can be divided into three main categories.
What is the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain.
In a pink bungalow house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink phone, a pink shower – everything was pink! What color were the stairs?
There were no stairs in a bungalow house.
This psychologist developed a client-centered therapy method that has been influential in clinical settings.
Who is Carl Rogers