PSYCH 2301 EXAM ONE GOSNELL BLINN QUESTIONS
& ANSWERS
Psychology - Answers - the scientific study of mind and behavior
Behavior - Answers - observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals
Dualism - Answers - believed the physical body was a container for the nonphysical
thing called the mind
Who is associated with dualism? - Answers - Descartes
Phrenology - Answers - discredited theory that specific mental abilities/characteristics
ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness are localized in specific regions of
the brain
Structuralism - Answers - analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind
Introspection - Answers - subjective observation of one's own experience
Consciousness Experiences - Answers - term used by William James to describe the
mind as a continuous flow of changing sensations, images, thoughts, and feelings
Consciousness - Answers - person's subjective experience of the world and the mind
Functionalism - Answers - study of how mental processes enable people to adapt to
their environments
Process of adaptation - Answers - the process, resulting from natural selection, by
which populations become more suited to their environment over many generations
Humanstic Psychology - Answers - understanding human nature that emphasizes the
positive potential of human beings
Response - Answers - action or physiological change in behavior that occurs as a result
of a stimulus
Stimulus - Answers - sensory input from the environment
Operant Conditioning - Answers - method of learning through rewards and punishments
for behavior
Reinforcement - Answers - consequences of a behavior determine whether it will be
more or less likely to occur again
, Cognitive Psychology - Answers - scientific study of mental processes, including
perception, thought, memory, and reasoning
Gestalt Psychology - Answers - psychological approach that emphasizes that we often
perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts
Plato - Answers - nativist , believed that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn
Aristotle - Answers - philosophical empiricism , tabula rasa
Nativism - Answers - philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or
inborn
Philosophical Empiricism - Answers - view that all knowledge is acquired through
experience
Tabula Rasa - Answers - belief that the mind is a blank state on which experiences are
written
Rene Descartes - Answers - Father of modern philosophy , dualism
Thomas Hobbes - Answers - argued against Descartes , believed mind and body are 2
different things , laid foundation of sociology
Who laid the foundation of sociology? - Answers - Thomas Hobbes
Franz Joseph Gall - Answers - founder of phrenology
Piere Flourens - Answers - founder of experimental brain science and anesthesia
Paul Broca - Answers - specific part of brain has specific function
Gustav Fechner - Answers - psychophysics , Fechners Law
Psychophysics - Answers - study of how physical stimuli are translated into
psychological experience
Fechner's Law - Answers - perception of change in stimulus
Hermann von Helmholtz - Answers - physiology, stimulus, reaction time , estimated
length of nerve impulse
Physiology - Answers - study of function
& ANSWERS
Psychology - Answers - the scientific study of mind and behavior
Behavior - Answers - observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals
Dualism - Answers - believed the physical body was a container for the nonphysical
thing called the mind
Who is associated with dualism? - Answers - Descartes
Phrenology - Answers - discredited theory that specific mental abilities/characteristics
ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness are localized in specific regions of
the brain
Structuralism - Answers - analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind
Introspection - Answers - subjective observation of one's own experience
Consciousness Experiences - Answers - term used by William James to describe the
mind as a continuous flow of changing sensations, images, thoughts, and feelings
Consciousness - Answers - person's subjective experience of the world and the mind
Functionalism - Answers - study of how mental processes enable people to adapt to
their environments
Process of adaptation - Answers - the process, resulting from natural selection, by
which populations become more suited to their environment over many generations
Humanstic Psychology - Answers - understanding human nature that emphasizes the
positive potential of human beings
Response - Answers - action or physiological change in behavior that occurs as a result
of a stimulus
Stimulus - Answers - sensory input from the environment
Operant Conditioning - Answers - method of learning through rewards and punishments
for behavior
Reinforcement - Answers - consequences of a behavior determine whether it will be
more or less likely to occur again
, Cognitive Psychology - Answers - scientific study of mental processes, including
perception, thought, memory, and reasoning
Gestalt Psychology - Answers - psychological approach that emphasizes that we often
perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts
Plato - Answers - nativist , believed that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn
Aristotle - Answers - philosophical empiricism , tabula rasa
Nativism - Answers - philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or
inborn
Philosophical Empiricism - Answers - view that all knowledge is acquired through
experience
Tabula Rasa - Answers - belief that the mind is a blank state on which experiences are
written
Rene Descartes - Answers - Father of modern philosophy , dualism
Thomas Hobbes - Answers - argued against Descartes , believed mind and body are 2
different things , laid foundation of sociology
Who laid the foundation of sociology? - Answers - Thomas Hobbes
Franz Joseph Gall - Answers - founder of phrenology
Piere Flourens - Answers - founder of experimental brain science and anesthesia
Paul Broca - Answers - specific part of brain has specific function
Gustav Fechner - Answers - psychophysics , Fechners Law
Psychophysics - Answers - study of how physical stimuli are translated into
psychological experience
Fechner's Law - Answers - perception of change in stimulus
Hermann von Helmholtz - Answers - physiology, stimulus, reaction time , estimated
length of nerve impulse
Physiology - Answers - study of function
