PSY 2012 UCF Exam 1 (A+ Graded)

Who used introspection to study the "atoms of the mind"? correct answers Willhelm Wundt What is introspection? correct answers Looking inward into one own mental processes Structuralism correct answers Wundt, An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind. Functionalism correct answers James, A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish. Who studied the mind as it adapts to the environment? correct answers William James Who studied behaviorism? correct answers Watson and Skinner What is behaviorism? correct answers The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes What did Charles Darwin believe? correct answers He argued that natural selection shapes behaviors as well as bodies What does APA stand for? correct answers American Psychological Association What did Sigmund Freud study? correct answers He placed emphasis on the unconscious and dream analysis What is psychoanalysis? correct answers Used by Freud, The theory and treatment of abnormal mental functioning that emphasizes unconscious psychological forces as the cause of psychopathology Humanism correct answers A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements Who studied humanism? correct answers Rogers and Maslow Modern definition of psychology correct answers The science of behavior and mental processes Nature-nurture issue correct answers Longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors What are psychology's three main levels of analysis? correct answers Biological influences, psychological influences, and socio-cultural influences Biopsychosocial approach correct answers An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis