Psychology 2025 1st Class Edition
Psychology
1st Class Edition 2025
Questions and verified answers
What is Psychology? - ✔✔ Study of mind and behavior.
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).
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, Psychology 2025 1st Class Edition
Debriefing - ✔✔A verbal description of a study describing its nature and purpose if the
participant is deceived
Confidentiality - ✔✔Psychologists are obligated to keep private and personal information
obtained during a study confidential
Neurons - ✔✔They are cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to
perform information-processing tasks
What is Nativism (Nature)? - ✔✔Nativism is the theory that knowledge is innate and inborn. Our
biological endowment makes up who we are.
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.
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.
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.
Humanistic Psychology - ✔✔an approach to understanding human nature that emphasizes the
positive potential of human beings
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Psychology
1st Class Edition 2025
Questions and verified answers
What is Psychology? - ✔✔ Study of mind and behavior.
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).
pg. 1
, Psychology 2025 1st Class Edition
Debriefing - ✔✔A verbal description of a study describing its nature and purpose if the
participant is deceived
Confidentiality - ✔✔Psychologists are obligated to keep private and personal information
obtained during a study confidential
Neurons - ✔✔They are cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to
perform information-processing tasks
What is Nativism (Nature)? - ✔✔Nativism is the theory that knowledge is innate and inborn. Our
biological endowment makes up who we are.
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.
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.
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.
Humanistic Psychology - ✔✔an approach to understanding human nature that emphasizes the
positive potential of human beings
pg. 2
