PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
1. Psychology ANS The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior
2. Where did psychology branch out from? ANS Physiology and Philosophy
3. Structuralism ANS Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not
identified with anymore)
4. 2 Structuralists ANS Wundt and Titchener
5. Functionalism ANS Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt to
their environment (not identified with anymore)
6. 2 Functionalists ANS Darwin and James
7. 3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena ANS Theoretical
Propositions,
Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation
8. Modern Perspectives ANS Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary
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9. Psychodynamic ANS started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or
prove because of small sample size
10. Behaviorist ANS Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts of
environmental events; experiment
11. Behaviorist Metaphor ANS People are like machines
12. Cognitive ANS Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve
information (Perspective)
13. Cognitive Metaphor ANS Brain like a computer
14. Evolutionary ANS Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our
ancestors survive
15. Evolutionary Metaphor ANS runners in a race
16. Biopsychology ANS Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline)
1. Psychology ANS The scientific investigation of mental processes and behavior
2. Where did psychology branch out from? ANS Physiology and Philosophy
3. Structuralism ANS Focused on the structure of consciousness and the mind (not
identified with anymore)
4. 2 Structuralists ANS Wundt and Titchener
5. Functionalism ANS Focused on the function of the mind in helping people adapt to
their environment (not identified with anymore)
6. 2 Functionalists ANS Darwin and James
7. 3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena ANS Theoretical
Propositions,
Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation
8. Modern Perspectives ANS Psychodynamic, Behaviorist, Cognitive, Evolutionary
, PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
9. Psychodynamic ANS started by Sigmund Freud; case studies, not easy to test or
prove because of small sample size
10. Behaviorist ANS Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are byproducts of
environmental events; experiment
11. Behaviorist Metaphor ANS People are like machines
12. Cognitive ANS Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and retrieve
information (Perspective)
13. Cognitive Metaphor ANS Brain like a computer
14. Evolutionary ANS Darwin; behaviors have come about because they helped our
ancestors survive
15. Evolutionary Metaphor ANS runners in a race
16. Biopsychology ANS Physical bases of psychological phenomena (sub-discipline)
