UNC-Chapel Hill PSYC 101 Midterm 1 (Loeb) UPDATED ACTUAL Questions And
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Terms in this set (122)
Rene Descartes Thought about mind
Hermann von Helmholtz Measured time to make mental thought, founder of experimental psychology
Wilhem Wundt Applied principles of philosophy and physiology to "found psychology," created
first psych lab
Edward Titchener Main proponent of structuralism
Structuralism School of psychology based on notion that the task of psychology is to analyze
consciousness into its basic elements and to investigate how these elements are
related
William James Authored first psych textbook, proponent of functionalism
Stanley Hall Created first psych lab in US, authored American Journal of Psychology,
proponent of functionalism
Functionalism School of psychology based on the belief that psychology should investigate the
function or purpose of consciousness, inspired by Darwin and adaptiveness
Sigmund Freud Proposed idea of psychoanalysis, study of unconscious
Psychoanalytic theory Theory that attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by
focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior
Behaviorism Theoretical orientation based on premise that scientific psychology should study
only observable behavior
John B Watson Proponent of behaviorism
BF Skinner Believed that free will is an illusion, emphasized role of environmental factors,
supported behaviorism over psychoanalysis
Humanism Theoretical orientation which emphasizes unique qualities of being human,
especially freedom and potential for personal growth
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow Proponents of humanism
Chomsky, Miller, and Simon Involved in renewed interest in cognitive psychology/cognition
, Clinical/abnormal psychology Branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of
psychological problems and disorders, grew popular after WWII
Cognitive psychology Focuses on "higher" mental processes, such as memory, reasoning, information
processing, language, problem solving, decision making, and creativity
Developmental psychology Examines human development across life span
Personality psychology Interested in describing and understanding individuals' consistency in behavior,
which represents their personality, concerned with factors that shape personality
Physiological psychology Examines influence of genetic factors on behavior and role of brain, nervous
system, endocrine system, and bodily chemicals in regulation of behavior
Social psychology Focuses on interpersonal behavior and role of social forces in governing behavior
Experimental psychology Encompasses traditional core of topics, including sensation, perception, learning,
conditioning, motivation, and emotion
Educational psychology Study of how people learn and best ways to teach them
Psychometrics Concerned with measurement of behavior and capacities, usually through
development of psychological tests
Health psychology Focuses on how psychological factors relate to promotion and maintenance of
physical health and causation, prevention, and treatment of illness
Hypothesis Tentative statement about relationship between two or more variables, must have
operational definition to be testable
Theory System of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations
Empiricism Premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation
Counseling psychology Practice of providing assistance to people struggling with everyday problems of
moderate severity
Rationalism Theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in
knowledge
Descriptive statistics Measures of central tendency, dispersion of scores, and correlation of individual
data sets, eg mean, median, mode, standard dev, variance, r^2
Inferential statistics Generalization of sample results to population, statistical significance, eg T-test,
Chi-test, F-test
Experimental levels Number of ways variables is manipulated, eg three different hair colors
Experimental group Group of interest
Correct Answers
Terms in this set (122)
Rene Descartes Thought about mind
Hermann von Helmholtz Measured time to make mental thought, founder of experimental psychology
Wilhem Wundt Applied principles of philosophy and physiology to "found psychology," created
first psych lab
Edward Titchener Main proponent of structuralism
Structuralism School of psychology based on notion that the task of psychology is to analyze
consciousness into its basic elements and to investigate how these elements are
related
William James Authored first psych textbook, proponent of functionalism
Stanley Hall Created first psych lab in US, authored American Journal of Psychology,
proponent of functionalism
Functionalism School of psychology based on the belief that psychology should investigate the
function or purpose of consciousness, inspired by Darwin and adaptiveness
Sigmund Freud Proposed idea of psychoanalysis, study of unconscious
Psychoanalytic theory Theory that attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by
focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior
Behaviorism Theoretical orientation based on premise that scientific psychology should study
only observable behavior
John B Watson Proponent of behaviorism
BF Skinner Believed that free will is an illusion, emphasized role of environmental factors,
supported behaviorism over psychoanalysis
Humanism Theoretical orientation which emphasizes unique qualities of being human,
especially freedom and potential for personal growth
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow Proponents of humanism
Chomsky, Miller, and Simon Involved in renewed interest in cognitive psychology/cognition
, Clinical/abnormal psychology Branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of
psychological problems and disorders, grew popular after WWII
Cognitive psychology Focuses on "higher" mental processes, such as memory, reasoning, information
processing, language, problem solving, decision making, and creativity
Developmental psychology Examines human development across life span
Personality psychology Interested in describing and understanding individuals' consistency in behavior,
which represents their personality, concerned with factors that shape personality
Physiological psychology Examines influence of genetic factors on behavior and role of brain, nervous
system, endocrine system, and bodily chemicals in regulation of behavior
Social psychology Focuses on interpersonal behavior and role of social forces in governing behavior
Experimental psychology Encompasses traditional core of topics, including sensation, perception, learning,
conditioning, motivation, and emotion
Educational psychology Study of how people learn and best ways to teach them
Psychometrics Concerned with measurement of behavior and capacities, usually through
development of psychological tests
Health psychology Focuses on how psychological factors relate to promotion and maintenance of
physical health and causation, prevention, and treatment of illness
Hypothesis Tentative statement about relationship between two or more variables, must have
operational definition to be testable
Theory System of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations
Empiricism Premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation
Counseling psychology Practice of providing assistance to people struggling with everyday problems of
moderate severity
Rationalism Theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in
knowledge
Descriptive statistics Measures of central tendency, dispersion of scores, and correlation of individual
data sets, eg mean, median, mode, standard dev, variance, r^2
Inferential statistics Generalization of sample results to population, statistical significance, eg T-test,
Chi-test, F-test
Experimental levels Number of ways variables is manipulated, eg three different hair colors
Experimental group Group of interest
