Psychology 1010 exam 1 chapters 1-3 (Questions + Answers) Solved

Psychology - Answer-the scientific study of thought and behavior Wilhelm Wundt - Answer-opened the first psychology laboratory in Germany, 1879 examined in detail the relationship between physiology and psychology Francis Galton - Answer-did not indetify as a psycologist cousin of Charles Darwin interest in individual differences, giftedness, and the influence of heredity pioneering statistician championed the eugenics movement Edward Titchener - Answer-student of Wundt structuralism William Jame - Answer-American. associated with Harvard. Started from medicine Functionalism focus on adaptation and continuous flow of thoughts wrote Principals of Psychology G. Stanley Hall - Answer-american. Student of James Founded the American Psychological Association and served as its first president found the first US psychology journal Sigmund Freud - Answer-Austrian originally a medical doctor psychoanalysisJohn B. Watston - Answer-American. behaviorism rejected study of consciouness strong environmental slant, we are a blank slate Jean Piaget - Answer-swiss. observed and documented stages of cognitive development Carl Rogers (1), Abraham Maslow(2), and Martin Seligman(3) - Answer-humanists 1- emphasis on self- concept 2- self actualization 3- study of happiness belief that people have an inherent drive toward positive growth 1- client-centered therapy 2- Hierarchy of needs 3- "positive Psychology" structuralism - Answer-break down conscious experience into its most elemental structures of sensations and perceptions using the introspective method Functionalism - Answer-believe that psychology should study the function of behavior and thought rather the elements of consciousness behaviorism - Answer-scientific psychology should study only observable behavior behavioral persepective - Answer-learning, behavior modification, conditioning, effects of reinforcement and punishment psychodynamic perspective - Answer-talking therapies, impacts of the unconscious, defense mechanisms, and effects of early childhood experiences humanistic/positive perspective - Answer-talking therapies, people as rational beings, and emphasis on positive adjustment and growthcognitive perspective - Answer-information processing, memory, brain research, learning disabilities, and alternate states of consciousness biological perspective - Answer-physiological impacts on thinking, feeling, and behavior, along with genetic effects (nature vs. Nurture) evolutionary perspective - Answer-adaptive value of behaviors, along with vestiges of behavioral patterns developed and passed on from our ancestors. empirical - Answer-knowledge acquired through systemati obervastion research and statistical analysis psychiatry - Answer-M.D. medications clinical psychology - Answer-PHD hospitals counseling psychology - Answer-counseling, masters or doctrinal degree, therapy