AU PSYC 304 FINAL 4 2026 FINAL REVIEW
PACK COMPLETE QUESTION SET AND CORE
CONCEPT SUMMARY
◉ Socrates and Plato. Answer: thought the mind and body were
separate and that the mind goes on after death. Also thought
Knowledge was innate.
◉ Aristotle. Answer: student of Plato; thought knowledge was
obtained through experiences
◉ Rene Descartes. Answer: thought the mind and body were
separate
◉ John Locke. Answer: thought a mind at birth was a blank slate.
helped form empiricism
◉ empiricism. Answer: knowledge is from experiences and therefor
science should only rely on observations and experiments.
◉ Wilhelm Wundt. Answer: father of Psychology
,◉ Edward Titchner. Answer: introduced structuralism which relied
on introspection
◉ introspection. Answer: looking inward. An unreliable idea as the
answers given differed from person to person
◉ William James. Answer: functionalist, taught Mary Whiton Calkin
◉ Mary Whiton Calkin. Answer: was not allowed to get her Ph.D in
Psychology but moved on to become the first woman president of
the American Psychology Association (APA)
◉ Margaret Floy Washburn. Answer: first woman to get a Ph.D in
Psychology and second woman president of the APA
◉ experimental Psychologists. Answer: explore with experiments
◉ behaviorists. Answer: rely on observation
◉ humanistic psychology. Answer: Carl Rogers; having our needs
satisfied
◉ cognitive Neuroscience. Answer: Brain activity in link to Mental
activity
,◉ Biggest debate in Psychology. Answer: Nature V.S. Nurture
◉ Natural Selection. Answer: Charles Darwin's Idea that those traits
promoting survival will be carried on to the next generation.
Survival of the fittest
◉ levels of analysis. Answer: the differing complementary views
which show different reasons as for why something might occur
◉ biopsychosocial approach. Answer: combines biological,
psychological and social-cultural
◉ biological psychology. Answer: studies the links between
biological and psychological
◉ evolutionary psychology. Answer: uses natural selection to see
why we have certain traits
◉ Psychodynamic psychology. Answer: unconscious drives and
conflicts influence behavior
◉ behavioral psychology. Answer: rely on observable behavior
, ◉ cognitive psychology. Answer: focuses on mental activity
(thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating) to explain
behavior
◉ social-cultural psychology. Answer: the study of how culture
effects behavior and thinking
◉ psychometrics. Answer: the study of the measurement of human
ability
◉ basic research. Answer: study that aims to increase the knowledge
base
◉ developmental psychology. Answer: the study of how we change
throughout our life span
◉ educational psychology. Answer: how psychological processes
effect learning and teaching
◉ personality psychology. Answer: the study of an individuals way of
acting, feelings and thinking
◉ social psychology. Answer: how people influence each other
PACK COMPLETE QUESTION SET AND CORE
CONCEPT SUMMARY
◉ Socrates and Plato. Answer: thought the mind and body were
separate and that the mind goes on after death. Also thought
Knowledge was innate.
◉ Aristotle. Answer: student of Plato; thought knowledge was
obtained through experiences
◉ Rene Descartes. Answer: thought the mind and body were
separate
◉ John Locke. Answer: thought a mind at birth was a blank slate.
helped form empiricism
◉ empiricism. Answer: knowledge is from experiences and therefor
science should only rely on observations and experiments.
◉ Wilhelm Wundt. Answer: father of Psychology
,◉ Edward Titchner. Answer: introduced structuralism which relied
on introspection
◉ introspection. Answer: looking inward. An unreliable idea as the
answers given differed from person to person
◉ William James. Answer: functionalist, taught Mary Whiton Calkin
◉ Mary Whiton Calkin. Answer: was not allowed to get her Ph.D in
Psychology but moved on to become the first woman president of
the American Psychology Association (APA)
◉ Margaret Floy Washburn. Answer: first woman to get a Ph.D in
Psychology and second woman president of the APA
◉ experimental Psychologists. Answer: explore with experiments
◉ behaviorists. Answer: rely on observation
◉ humanistic psychology. Answer: Carl Rogers; having our needs
satisfied
◉ cognitive Neuroscience. Answer: Brain activity in link to Mental
activity
,◉ Biggest debate in Psychology. Answer: Nature V.S. Nurture
◉ Natural Selection. Answer: Charles Darwin's Idea that those traits
promoting survival will be carried on to the next generation.
Survival of the fittest
◉ levels of analysis. Answer: the differing complementary views
which show different reasons as for why something might occur
◉ biopsychosocial approach. Answer: combines biological,
psychological and social-cultural
◉ biological psychology. Answer: studies the links between
biological and psychological
◉ evolutionary psychology. Answer: uses natural selection to see
why we have certain traits
◉ Psychodynamic psychology. Answer: unconscious drives and
conflicts influence behavior
◉ behavioral psychology. Answer: rely on observable behavior
, ◉ cognitive psychology. Answer: focuses on mental activity
(thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating) to explain
behavior
◉ social-cultural psychology. Answer: the study of how culture
effects behavior and thinking
◉ psychometrics. Answer: the study of the measurement of human
ability
◉ basic research. Answer: study that aims to increase the knowledge
base
◉ developmental psychology. Answer: the study of how we change
throughout our life span
◉ educational psychology. Answer: how psychological processes
effect learning and teaching
◉ personality psychology. Answer: the study of an individuals way of
acting, feelings and thinking
◉ social psychology. Answer: how people influence each other
