PSY101 – StraighterLine Questions With Complete Solutions

Psychology / Goals of Psychology correct answer: a scientific discipline that studies behavior and mental processes All psychologists share the common goals of describing, understanding, predicting and influencing human behavior. Science correct answer: Any discipline that bases its legitimacy on systematic observation and provable hypotheses rather than on intuition or "common sense." Structuralism correct answer: an early psychological approach which sought to understand the mind through analysis of its basic elements, determined through controlled introspection. developed by Wilhelm Wundt Functionalism correct answer: an early psychological approach that focused on the functionality (usefulness) of mental processes and behaviors rather than breaking down consciousness into basic elements. associated with William James Psychodynamic Perspective correct answer: The psychological approach that focuses on therapy and operates under the assumption that people's behavior is motivated by powerful, unconscious inner forces. developed by Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis Gestalt Psychology correct answer: Gestalt psychologists believed that perception cannot be broken down and studied by looking at its component parts because the whole is greater and more meaningful than the sum of those parts. A German school of psychology that focuses on how perception and thinking are organized into unified "wholes" ("gestalt" in German). Behaviorism correct answer: principle of learning that is called conditioning Watson, Washburn, Skinner Law of Effect correct answer: positive consequences served to reinforce a behavior while negative consequences would inhibit