WGU C180 intro to psychology Exam QUESTION AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Psychology - ANSWERS💫✔️-The scientific study of the mind and behavior
Mind - ANSWERS💫✔️-The non-physical manifestation of the brain activity
Behavior - ANSWERS💫✔️-The outwardly observable acts of a person either alone or in a group
Level of the brain - ANSWERS💫✔️-Events that involve the activity, structure, and properties of the organ
itself - brain cells and their connections, the chemical solutions in which they exist, and the genes.
Level of the person - ANSWERS💫✔️-events that involve the function (mental processes) and content
(mental content) of the mind
mental contents - ANSWERS💫✔️-Knowledge, beliefs (including ideas, explanations, and expectations),
desires (such as hopes, goals, and needs), and feelings (such as fears, guilts, and attractions).
mental processes - ANSWERS💫✔️-Actions involved with thinking which include the need for completing
physical actions, paying attention, perceiving sensations and remembering the past
Level of the group - ANSWERS💫✔️-Analysis that involves understanding the individuals behavior in the
context of their relationships with other people or the behavior of a group of people as a whole
Structuralism (Wundt) - ANSWERS💫✔️-an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore
the elemental structure of the human mind. Wundt
Consciousness - ANSWERS💫✔️-State of being aware of the self and of the world
Introspection - ANSWERS💫✔️-The technique of observing interior mental events as they occur or
immediately after they occur
, Functionalism (William James) - ANSWERS💫✔️-A school of psychology that focused on how our mental
and behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish.
natural selection - ANSWERS💫✔️-The theory that certain organisms in every species possessed
characteristics that enable them to survive and reproduce more fruitfully than others
Adaption - ANSWERS💫✔️-A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce
gestalt (Max Wertheimer) - ANSWERS💫✔️--"The whole is different from the sum of its parts"
-how is perception organized?
ex: young woman and old woman picture
Behaviorism (Ivan Pavlov) - ANSWERS💫✔️-Focus on how specific stimulus such as object, person or
event invokes a specific response as behavior in reaction to the stimulus
Unconscious - ANSWERS💫✔️-The condition of being unaware of the outside world, and unable to bring
oneself into awareness at will
defense mechanisms - ANSWERS💫✔️-Unconscious psychological strategies that protect a person from
anxiety based on unacceptable thoughts or feelings
Psychodynamic theory (Freud) - ANSWERS💫✔️-Freudian theory that unconscious forces determine
behavior
Humanistic psychology(Maslow) - ANSWERS💫✔️-A school of thought and psychology that assumes
people have positive values free will, and deep inner creativity
Cognitive Psychology - ANSWERS💫✔️-The school of thought that attempts to characterize the nature of
human information processing; mental events that allow information to be stored in process; the mind
is like a computer
ANSWERS
Psychology - ANSWERS💫✔️-The scientific study of the mind and behavior
Mind - ANSWERS💫✔️-The non-physical manifestation of the brain activity
Behavior - ANSWERS💫✔️-The outwardly observable acts of a person either alone or in a group
Level of the brain - ANSWERS💫✔️-Events that involve the activity, structure, and properties of the organ
itself - brain cells and their connections, the chemical solutions in which they exist, and the genes.
Level of the person - ANSWERS💫✔️-events that involve the function (mental processes) and content
(mental content) of the mind
mental contents - ANSWERS💫✔️-Knowledge, beliefs (including ideas, explanations, and expectations),
desires (such as hopes, goals, and needs), and feelings (such as fears, guilts, and attractions).
mental processes - ANSWERS💫✔️-Actions involved with thinking which include the need for completing
physical actions, paying attention, perceiving sensations and remembering the past
Level of the group - ANSWERS💫✔️-Analysis that involves understanding the individuals behavior in the
context of their relationships with other people or the behavior of a group of people as a whole
Structuralism (Wundt) - ANSWERS💫✔️-an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore
the elemental structure of the human mind. Wundt
Consciousness - ANSWERS💫✔️-State of being aware of the self and of the world
Introspection - ANSWERS💫✔️-The technique of observing interior mental events as they occur or
immediately after they occur
, Functionalism (William James) - ANSWERS💫✔️-A school of psychology that focused on how our mental
and behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish.
natural selection - ANSWERS💫✔️-The theory that certain organisms in every species possessed
characteristics that enable them to survive and reproduce more fruitfully than others
Adaption - ANSWERS💫✔️-A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce
gestalt (Max Wertheimer) - ANSWERS💫✔️--"The whole is different from the sum of its parts"
-how is perception organized?
ex: young woman and old woman picture
Behaviorism (Ivan Pavlov) - ANSWERS💫✔️-Focus on how specific stimulus such as object, person or
event invokes a specific response as behavior in reaction to the stimulus
Unconscious - ANSWERS💫✔️-The condition of being unaware of the outside world, and unable to bring
oneself into awareness at will
defense mechanisms - ANSWERS💫✔️-Unconscious psychological strategies that protect a person from
anxiety based on unacceptable thoughts or feelings
Psychodynamic theory (Freud) - ANSWERS💫✔️-Freudian theory that unconscious forces determine
behavior
Humanistic psychology(Maslow) - ANSWERS💫✔️-A school of thought and psychology that assumes
people have positive values free will, and deep inner creativity
Cognitive Psychology - ANSWERS💫✔️-The school of thought that attempts to characterize the nature of
human information processing; mental events that allow information to be stored in process; the mind
is like a computer
