UNCC PSYCH 1101 Exam 1 Practice Questions and Answers

Scientific attitude curiosity, skepticism, humility Curiosity a strong desire to know or learn something Skepticism a philosophy which suggests that nothing can ever be known for certain; have some doubt when approaching an issue Humility researchers must be willing to be surprised and follow new ideas Structuralism an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind; unreliable as it depends on the person's intelligence and the experience of doing something varied; titchener and wundt Functionalism a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish; william james Behaviorism the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes; ex: the rat experiments; skinner and watson Freudian psychology emphasized the ways our unconscious thought processes and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior Humanistic emphasizes human growth potential; rogers and maslow Evolutionary perspective this perspective takes the stance that behaviors came into existence as a result of adaptations to living conditions; ex: humans naturally dislike and fear snakes and spiders bc they're poisonous Behavioral perspective the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior that have been learned Neuroscience how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences; subfields: biological, cognitive, clinical Psychodynamic how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts; subfields: clinical, counseling, personality