Psych 1100 Lecture 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
psychology - CORRECT ANSWER -the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes
-the study of the human mind
critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWER -ability and willingness to assses claims and make
objective judgements
-basis of well supoorted reasons and evidence not emotion
8 critical thinking guidelines - CORRECT ANSWER 1)Ask questions...be willing to wonder
2) Trust NO ONE!
3) Examine the evidence
4) Be aware of assumptions and biases
5) Avoid emotional reasoning
6) Don't oversimplify, but don't overcomplicate
7) Consider other interpretations
8) Tolerate uncertainty
pseudoscience - CORRECT ANSWER beliefs mistakenly regarded as scientific method
hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWER -400 BCE
-father of medicine
-first to suggest that mental illness had natural causes
-first to say emotion and thought are in the brain
aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER -350BCE
-claimed human psyche was apart of the body
, -moral choices were based on our sense
psyche - CORRECT ANSWER greek word for "mind" or "soul"
phrenology - CORRECT ANSWER -discredited theory that different brain areas account for
personality traits
-read from bumps on skull
how long ago did psychology rlly start? - CORRECT ANSWER 130 yrs ago
three early psychologies - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Structuralism
2. Functionalism
3. Psychoanalysis
Birth of Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER Wilhelm Wundt
-father of psychology
-established first psych lab and journal
-wanted to make it a science
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER -Wilhelm Wundt
-believe in emperical research
-testing in lab, using NUMBERS and systemic observations and scientific method
-tries to find underlying structure of the mind through testing how humans percieve with their senses
-focus on CONSCIOUS MIND
Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER William James
-disagreed w structuralism
-needed to see humans in NATURAL enviornment not lab
Questions and CORRECT Answers
psychology - CORRECT ANSWER -the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes
-the study of the human mind
critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWER -ability and willingness to assses claims and make
objective judgements
-basis of well supoorted reasons and evidence not emotion
8 critical thinking guidelines - CORRECT ANSWER 1)Ask questions...be willing to wonder
2) Trust NO ONE!
3) Examine the evidence
4) Be aware of assumptions and biases
5) Avoid emotional reasoning
6) Don't oversimplify, but don't overcomplicate
7) Consider other interpretations
8) Tolerate uncertainty
pseudoscience - CORRECT ANSWER beliefs mistakenly regarded as scientific method
hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWER -400 BCE
-father of medicine
-first to suggest that mental illness had natural causes
-first to say emotion and thought are in the brain
aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER -350BCE
-claimed human psyche was apart of the body
, -moral choices were based on our sense
psyche - CORRECT ANSWER greek word for "mind" or "soul"
phrenology - CORRECT ANSWER -discredited theory that different brain areas account for
personality traits
-read from bumps on skull
how long ago did psychology rlly start? - CORRECT ANSWER 130 yrs ago
three early psychologies - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Structuralism
2. Functionalism
3. Psychoanalysis
Birth of Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER Wilhelm Wundt
-father of psychology
-established first psych lab and journal
-wanted to make it a science
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER -Wilhelm Wundt
-believe in emperical research
-testing in lab, using NUMBERS and systemic observations and scientific method
-tries to find underlying structure of the mind through testing how humans percieve with their senses
-focus on CONSCIOUS MIND
Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER William James
-disagreed w structuralism
-needed to see humans in NATURAL enviornment not lab
