PSYC 2000 Final Exam - LSU Greening
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes - ✔✔Psychology
-Behavior (any action)
-Mental Processes (perceptions, thoughts, feelings)
-Scientific - ✔✔3 Aspects of Psychology
-Describe
-Explain
-Predict
-Control - ✔✔Goals of Psychology
"Father of Psychology" - ✔✔Wilhiem Wundt
-first attempt to bring objectivity/measurement in psychology
-founded the 1st experimental psychology lab - ✔✔Wilhiem Wundt Achievements
-Student of Wundt
Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 1
,-Stucturalism - ✔✔Edward Titchener
study consciousness by trying to understand its smaller, most basic elements -
✔✔Structuralism
-Functionalism - ✔✔William James
study the function of consciousness; how the mind allows people to work, play, adapt
to new circumstances - ✔✔Functionalism
-Gestalt Psychology - ✔✔Max Wertheimer
how we experience the world - ✔✔Gestalt Psychology
-worked with patients whose complaints had no identifiable physical cause
-focused on role of unconsciousness
-psychoanalysis - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
-focus on early childhood development
-dream interpretation - ✔✔Psychoanalysis
-behaviorism - ✔✔John Watson
study of observable behavior - ✔✔Behaviorism
-interested in reflexes
Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 2
,-discovered reflexes could be conditioned - ✔✔Pavlov
-John Watson
-tried to create a phobia based on Pavlov's conditioning technique - ✔✔Little Albert
Study
-modern psychoanalysis
-development of sense of self
-discovery of other motivations behind behavior
-psychodynamic psychotherapy
-attachment theory - ✔✔Psychodynamic
type of bond formed between caregiver and infant - ✔✔Attachment Theory
-BF Skinner who expanded on Watson's work
-how to manipulate voluntary behavior by changing the consequence of the behavior -
✔✔Behavioral Perspective
-emphasis on conscious, immediate experiences and ability to self actualize
-people have free will
-client centered therapy - ✔✔Humanistic Perspective
empowerment of an individual to become the best they can be - ✔✔Self-Actualization
Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 3
, -grew out of gestalt psychology
-how people think, remember, and store info
-cognitive neuroscience - ✔✔Cognitive Perspective
brain and cognitive processing - ✔✔Cognitive Neuroscience
-combines social and cultural psychology
-cross cultural studies - ✔✔Sociocultural Perspective
study of groups, relationships, social influences on behavior - ✔✔Social Psychology
study of cultural values and norms of behavior - ✔✔Cultural Psychology
mental processes can be explained by the interaction with biological factors (genes,
hormones, etc.) - ✔✔Biopsychological Perspective
-grew out of functionalism
-human behavior is a result of psychological adaptiveness that help people function and
survive - ✔✔Evolutionary Perspective
doctoral degree and specialized training in one or more subfields of psychology -
✔✔Psychologist
medical school and then specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders -
✔✔Psychiatrist
Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 4
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes - ✔✔Psychology
-Behavior (any action)
-Mental Processes (perceptions, thoughts, feelings)
-Scientific - ✔✔3 Aspects of Psychology
-Describe
-Explain
-Predict
-Control - ✔✔Goals of Psychology
"Father of Psychology" - ✔✔Wilhiem Wundt
-first attempt to bring objectivity/measurement in psychology
-founded the 1st experimental psychology lab - ✔✔Wilhiem Wundt Achievements
-Student of Wundt
Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 1
,-Stucturalism - ✔✔Edward Titchener
study consciousness by trying to understand its smaller, most basic elements -
✔✔Structuralism
-Functionalism - ✔✔William James
study the function of consciousness; how the mind allows people to work, play, adapt
to new circumstances - ✔✔Functionalism
-Gestalt Psychology - ✔✔Max Wertheimer
how we experience the world - ✔✔Gestalt Psychology
-worked with patients whose complaints had no identifiable physical cause
-focused on role of unconsciousness
-psychoanalysis - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
-focus on early childhood development
-dream interpretation - ✔✔Psychoanalysis
-behaviorism - ✔✔John Watson
study of observable behavior - ✔✔Behaviorism
-interested in reflexes
Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 2
,-discovered reflexes could be conditioned - ✔✔Pavlov
-John Watson
-tried to create a phobia based on Pavlov's conditioning technique - ✔✔Little Albert
Study
-modern psychoanalysis
-development of sense of self
-discovery of other motivations behind behavior
-psychodynamic psychotherapy
-attachment theory - ✔✔Psychodynamic
type of bond formed between caregiver and infant - ✔✔Attachment Theory
-BF Skinner who expanded on Watson's work
-how to manipulate voluntary behavior by changing the consequence of the behavior -
✔✔Behavioral Perspective
-emphasis on conscious, immediate experiences and ability to self actualize
-people have free will
-client centered therapy - ✔✔Humanistic Perspective
empowerment of an individual to become the best they can be - ✔✔Self-Actualization
Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 3
, -grew out of gestalt psychology
-how people think, remember, and store info
-cognitive neuroscience - ✔✔Cognitive Perspective
brain and cognitive processing - ✔✔Cognitive Neuroscience
-combines social and cultural psychology
-cross cultural studies - ✔✔Sociocultural Perspective
study of groups, relationships, social influences on behavior - ✔✔Social Psychology
study of cultural values and norms of behavior - ✔✔Cultural Psychology
mental processes can be explained by the interaction with biological factors (genes,
hormones, etc.) - ✔✔Biopsychological Perspective
-grew out of functionalism
-human behavior is a result of psychological adaptiveness that help people function and
survive - ✔✔Evolutionary Perspective
doctoral degree and specialized training in one or more subfields of psychology -
✔✔Psychologist
medical school and then specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders -
✔✔Psychiatrist
Brittie Donald, All Rights Reserved © 2025 4
