PSYCH MISC PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● psychology
Answer: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, scientific
method guides it
●● Rene Descartes
Answer: french philosopher that proposed doctrine called interactive
dualism
●● interactive dualism
Answer: the idea that mind and body were separate entities that interact
to produce sensations, emotions, and other conscious experiences
●● physiology
Answer: the branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of
living organisms and their parts.
●● Wilhelm Wundt
Answer: Founder of psych, created the first psychology lab in Germany,
studied fundamental psychological processes such as mental reaction
,time in response to auditory or visual stimuli. Sound of a bell, etc. Said
psych and physiology should be separate that would use experimental
methods to study mental processes. Defined psych as the study of
consciousness and emphasized the use of experimental methods to study
and measure consciousness.
●● Edward B. Titchener
Answer: founder of structuralism, wundt's student, welcomed women in
the field of psych, taught subjects to use introspection (subs would view
simple stimulus and try to reconstruct their sensations/feelings
immediately after viewing it, creating a description of concious
experience.)
●● structuralism
Answer: an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore
the elemental structure of the human mind, even most complex
conscious experiences could be broken down into elemental structures
(or component parts) of sensations/feelings.
●● Functionalism
Answer: stressed importance of how behavior functions to allow
people/animals to adapt. James describes consciousness as an ongoing
stream of mental activity that shifts and changes, coming in waves of
knowledge (feelings of desire constantly coming and going) Didn't limit
introspection
, ●● G. Stanley Hall
Answer: William James' student, founded the first psychology research
lab in the US at John's Hopkins, also made APA (American
Psychological Association)
●● Mary Whiton Calkins
Answer: William James' student, assigned to teach experimental
psychology at a new women college, studied with James at Harvard,
didn't get PhD bc wasn't allowed, studied dreams, memory, and
personality, 1st APA women's president
●● Margaret Floy Washburn
Answer: William James' student, first women to get PhD in psych,
summarized research on sensations, perception, learning and other
"inner experiences"
●● Sigmund Freud
Answer: Psychoanalysis: emphasized role on unconscious conflicts in
determining behavior and personality (basis on uncovering causes of
behavior that were unconscious or hidden, ego, id, superego,
sexual/aggressive drives), influenced psychotherapy
●● John B Watson
Answer: behaviorism: emphasis on external behaviors of people and
their reactions on a given situation and learning processes
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● psychology
Answer: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, scientific
method guides it
●● Rene Descartes
Answer: french philosopher that proposed doctrine called interactive
dualism
●● interactive dualism
Answer: the idea that mind and body were separate entities that interact
to produce sensations, emotions, and other conscious experiences
●● physiology
Answer: the branch of biology that deals with the normal functions of
living organisms and their parts.
●● Wilhelm Wundt
Answer: Founder of psych, created the first psychology lab in Germany,
studied fundamental psychological processes such as mental reaction
,time in response to auditory or visual stimuli. Sound of a bell, etc. Said
psych and physiology should be separate that would use experimental
methods to study mental processes. Defined psych as the study of
consciousness and emphasized the use of experimental methods to study
and measure consciousness.
●● Edward B. Titchener
Answer: founder of structuralism, wundt's student, welcomed women in
the field of psych, taught subjects to use introspection (subs would view
simple stimulus and try to reconstruct their sensations/feelings
immediately after viewing it, creating a description of concious
experience.)
●● structuralism
Answer: an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore
the elemental structure of the human mind, even most complex
conscious experiences could be broken down into elemental structures
(or component parts) of sensations/feelings.
●● Functionalism
Answer: stressed importance of how behavior functions to allow
people/animals to adapt. James describes consciousness as an ongoing
stream of mental activity that shifts and changes, coming in waves of
knowledge (feelings of desire constantly coming and going) Didn't limit
introspection
, ●● G. Stanley Hall
Answer: William James' student, founded the first psychology research
lab in the US at John's Hopkins, also made APA (American
Psychological Association)
●● Mary Whiton Calkins
Answer: William James' student, assigned to teach experimental
psychology at a new women college, studied with James at Harvard,
didn't get PhD bc wasn't allowed, studied dreams, memory, and
personality, 1st APA women's president
●● Margaret Floy Washburn
Answer: William James' student, first women to get PhD in psych,
summarized research on sensations, perception, learning and other
"inner experiences"
●● Sigmund Freud
Answer: Psychoanalysis: emphasized role on unconscious conflicts in
determining behavior and personality (basis on uncovering causes of
behavior that were unconscious or hidden, ego, id, superego,
sexual/aggressive drives), influenced psychotherapy
●● John B Watson
Answer: behaviorism: emphasis on external behaviors of people and
their reactions on a given situation and learning processes
