Introduction to Psychology (Exam 1) Questions and Answers 100% Pass

Introduction to Psychology (Exam 1) Questions and Answers 100% Pass What is Psychology? - The study of mind and behavior. What is Nativism (Nature)? - Nativism is the theory that knowledge is innate and inborn. Our biological endowment makes up who we are. What is Empiricism (Nurture)? - Empiricism is the idea that we gain knowledge through experience and surroundings. Our environment makes up who we are. Plato - He believes in the philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate and inborn (nativism/nature). Aristotle - He believes in philosophical empiricism which states that knowledge is gained through experience. Wilhelm Wundt - He believes in the idea of structuralism. Structuralism is when you analyze the brain by breaking it down to its main components. William James - He believes in the idea of functionalism. Functionalism is when you see how someone functions or adapts to new aspects in their environment. 2100% Pass Guarantee Sophia Bennett, All Rights Reserved © 2025 John Watson - He believed that psychology and the mind was not able to be studied through scientific inquiry. Instead, he was a behaviorist who focused more so the actions of humans to explain their train of thought. B.F. Skinner - He was another behaviorist that believed in Pavlov's experiments and Watson's theories. He studied how behavior was learned according to circumstance. Sigmund Freud - He came up with psychoanalytic theory which is very much so used today. Psychoanalysis is the study of unconscious mind and how it affects a person's thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Behaviorism - an approach that advocates that psychologists restrict themselves to the scientific study objectively observable behavior Cognitive Psychology - the scientific study of mental processes including perception, thought, memory, and experience Evolutionary Psychology - a psychological approach that explains mind and behavior in terms of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection (Influenced by Darwin, James, and EO Wilson) Humanistic Psychology - an approach to understanding human nature that emphasizes the positive potential of human beings 3100% Pass Guarantee Sophia Bennett, All Rights Reserved © 2025 Social Psychology - A subfield of psychology that studies the causes and consequences of interpersonal studies Cultural Psychology - Study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their members Emergence of Cognitive Psychology - It became a thing when Max Wertheimer began to study illusions and errors when it came to the mind. He came up with the Gestalt theory that states that we rather perceive the "sum" over the "parts". Kurt Lewin believed that we saw the world as we saw it and not at all how it actually was. The invention of computers made most psychologists ignore