PSY 100 TEST 1- UKY (ARCHER)
QUESTIONS COMPLETE WITH 100%
OUTLINED ANSWERS
\Q\.From what 2 disciplines did psychology emerge? - ANSWERS✔-Philosophy and
phisiology
\Q\.What is psychology? - ANSWERS✔-The scientific study of behavior and mental
process
\Q\.Who established the 1st Psychological laboratory?
What was the significance? - ANSWERS✔--Wilhelm Wundt
-He studied the content of consciousness and came up with the Technique of
Introspection
\Q\.Compare and contrast the different psychological perspectives (i.e.
behaviorism, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, etc.). - ANSWERS✔-Biological-
why are you the way you are (neuroscience and evolution)
Behavioral- you cannot observe sensation, feeling, or a thought but you can
observe and record people's behavior as they respond to and learn in different
situations.
,Psychodynamic- some things we don't know why we do them; things that happen
in early childhood; relationships; underlying conflicts
Cognitive- we have different thought process; interpret
Humanistic- we are all driven towards self growth; be the best that we can be;
positive viewpoint
Sociocultural- have to take in account the social and cultural areas you grow up in
\Q\.What areas do the various psychologists study? - ANSWERS✔--physiological
process
-sensation and perception
-states of consciousness
-learning process
-the memory system
-thinking process, intelligence and language acquisition
-emotion and motivation
-human developement from the fertilized egg through death
-personality
-stress and its health consequences
-abnormal behavior and treatment
-understanding social behavior
, \Q\.Wundt - ANSWERS✔-middle aged professor trying to measure "atoms of the
mind"- the fastest and simplest mental process (promoted structuralism)
\Q\.Tichener - ANSWERS✔-used introspection, looking inward, to search for the
minds structural elements
(promoted structuralism)
\Q\.James - ANSWERS✔-Thought it would be better to consider the evolved
functions of our thoughts and feelings. Encouraged explorations of the functions
of emotion, memories, willpower, habits, and movement-to-movement streams of
consciousness. (promoted functionalism)
(helped define psychology as "the science of mental life")
\Q\.Watson - ANSWERS✔-Championed psychology as the scientific study of
observable behavior (Watson and Skinner both rejected introspection)
\Q\.Skinner - ANSWERS✔-Leading behavioralist who rejected introspection and
studied how consequences shape behavior
\Q\.Freud - ANSWERS✔-His controversial ideas influenced humanities self -
understanding
\Q\.Introspection - ANSWERS✔-the examination or observation of one's own
mental and emotional processes. (looking inward at the mind)
QUESTIONS COMPLETE WITH 100%
OUTLINED ANSWERS
\Q\.From what 2 disciplines did psychology emerge? - ANSWERS✔-Philosophy and
phisiology
\Q\.What is psychology? - ANSWERS✔-The scientific study of behavior and mental
process
\Q\.Who established the 1st Psychological laboratory?
What was the significance? - ANSWERS✔--Wilhelm Wundt
-He studied the content of consciousness and came up with the Technique of
Introspection
\Q\.Compare and contrast the different psychological perspectives (i.e.
behaviorism, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, etc.). - ANSWERS✔-Biological-
why are you the way you are (neuroscience and evolution)
Behavioral- you cannot observe sensation, feeling, or a thought but you can
observe and record people's behavior as they respond to and learn in different
situations.
,Psychodynamic- some things we don't know why we do them; things that happen
in early childhood; relationships; underlying conflicts
Cognitive- we have different thought process; interpret
Humanistic- we are all driven towards self growth; be the best that we can be;
positive viewpoint
Sociocultural- have to take in account the social and cultural areas you grow up in
\Q\.What areas do the various psychologists study? - ANSWERS✔--physiological
process
-sensation and perception
-states of consciousness
-learning process
-the memory system
-thinking process, intelligence and language acquisition
-emotion and motivation
-human developement from the fertilized egg through death
-personality
-stress and its health consequences
-abnormal behavior and treatment
-understanding social behavior
, \Q\.Wundt - ANSWERS✔-middle aged professor trying to measure "atoms of the
mind"- the fastest and simplest mental process (promoted structuralism)
\Q\.Tichener - ANSWERS✔-used introspection, looking inward, to search for the
minds structural elements
(promoted structuralism)
\Q\.James - ANSWERS✔-Thought it would be better to consider the evolved
functions of our thoughts and feelings. Encouraged explorations of the functions
of emotion, memories, willpower, habits, and movement-to-movement streams of
consciousness. (promoted functionalism)
(helped define psychology as "the science of mental life")
\Q\.Watson - ANSWERS✔-Championed psychology as the scientific study of
observable behavior (Watson and Skinner both rejected introspection)
\Q\.Skinner - ANSWERS✔-Leading behavioralist who rejected introspection and
studied how consequences shape behavior
\Q\.Freud - ANSWERS✔-His controversial ideas influenced humanities self -
understanding
\Q\.Introspection - ANSWERS✔-the examination or observation of one's own
mental and emotional processes. (looking inward at the mind)
