SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 5TH CANADIAN EDITION UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ introspection
Answer: Inward focusing on mental experiences, such as sensations or feelings.
◉ structuralism
Answer: The school of psychology that attempts to understand the structure of the mind by breaking it
down into its component parts.
◉ functionalism
Answer: The school of psychology that focuses on the adaptive functions of behavior
◉ behavioralism
, Answer: The school of psychology that holds that psychology should limit itself to the study of overt,
observable behavior.
◉ Gestalt psychology
Answer: The school of psychology that holds that the brain structures our perceptions of the in terms
of meaningful patterns or wholes.
◉ psychodynamic perspective
Answer: The view that behavior is influenced by the struggle between unconscious sexual or
aggressive impulses and opposing forces that try to keep this threatening material out of
consciousness.
◉ psychoanalysis
Answer: Freud's method of psychotherapy; it focuses on uncovering and working through unconscious
conflicts he believed were at the root of psychological problems.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ introspection
Answer: Inward focusing on mental experiences, such as sensations or feelings.
◉ structuralism
Answer: The school of psychology that attempts to understand the structure of the mind by breaking it
down into its component parts.
◉ functionalism
Answer: The school of psychology that focuses on the adaptive functions of behavior
◉ behavioralism
, Answer: The school of psychology that holds that psychology should limit itself to the study of overt,
observable behavior.
◉ Gestalt psychology
Answer: The school of psychology that holds that the brain structures our perceptions of the in terms
of meaningful patterns or wholes.
◉ psychodynamic perspective
Answer: The view that behavior is influenced by the struggle between unconscious sexual or
aggressive impulses and opposing forces that try to keep this threatening material out of
consciousness.
◉ psychoanalysis
Answer: Freud's method of psychotherapy; it focuses on uncovering and working through unconscious
conflicts he believed were at the root of psychological problems.
