Psych Test 1 - Frick UGA questions and
answers A+ updated
Possible Bonus - correct answer ✔✔-Grew Up in Springfield Missouri
-Jayhawks basketball
-Steve husband
-Colin and Melanie age 16 and 13
-Development psychologist studying infant visual attention
Psyche - correct answer ✔✔means soul - often represented by a butterfly. Was
mortal whose beauty rivaled Aphrodite.
Psychology - correct answer ✔✔The scientific study of the mind (can't see) and
behavior (can see)
Important Date for Psychology - correct answer ✔✔1879 - Wundt established the
first psychology lab at the University of Leipzig in Germany
empirical method - correct answer ✔✔based on observation, including
experimentation, rather than a method based only on forms of logical argument
or previous authorities.
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer ✔✔Structuralism - Sought to understand the
structure or characteristics of the mind. Used Introspection
, Introspection - correct answer ✔✔a process by which someone examines their
own conscious experience as objectively as possible
William James - correct answer ✔✔Functionalism - focused on how mental
activities helped an organism fit into its environment. Behavior. Cares about the
whole mind rather than small parts. First American Psychologist. Influenced by
Darwin ideas
Sigmund Freud - correct answer ✔✔Psychoanalytic theory - focuses on the role of
a person's unconscious, as well as early childhood experiences, and this particular
perspective dominated clinical psychology for several decades
Gestalt Psychology - correct answer ✔✔roughly translates to "whole;" deals with
the fact that although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual
parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is often what the individual
responds to in perception...example, a song may be made up of individual notes
played by different instruments, but the real nature of the song is perceived in the
combinations of these notes as they form the melody, rhythm, and harmony
Behaviorism - correct answer ✔✔(Pavlov, Watson, Skinner) Focusing only on
behavior, or what is observed externally. Helped gain scientific credibility because
of use of objective methods.
Skinner Box - correct answer ✔✔chamber that isolates the subject from the
external environment and has a behavior indicator such as a lever or a button.
When the animal pushes the button or lever, the box is able to deliver a positive
reinforcement of the behavior (such as food) or a punishment (such as a noise) or
answers A+ updated
Possible Bonus - correct answer ✔✔-Grew Up in Springfield Missouri
-Jayhawks basketball
-Steve husband
-Colin and Melanie age 16 and 13
-Development psychologist studying infant visual attention
Psyche - correct answer ✔✔means soul - often represented by a butterfly. Was
mortal whose beauty rivaled Aphrodite.
Psychology - correct answer ✔✔The scientific study of the mind (can't see) and
behavior (can see)
Important Date for Psychology - correct answer ✔✔1879 - Wundt established the
first psychology lab at the University of Leipzig in Germany
empirical method - correct answer ✔✔based on observation, including
experimentation, rather than a method based only on forms of logical argument
or previous authorities.
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answer ✔✔Structuralism - Sought to understand the
structure or characteristics of the mind. Used Introspection
, Introspection - correct answer ✔✔a process by which someone examines their
own conscious experience as objectively as possible
William James - correct answer ✔✔Functionalism - focused on how mental
activities helped an organism fit into its environment. Behavior. Cares about the
whole mind rather than small parts. First American Psychologist. Influenced by
Darwin ideas
Sigmund Freud - correct answer ✔✔Psychoanalytic theory - focuses on the role of
a person's unconscious, as well as early childhood experiences, and this particular
perspective dominated clinical psychology for several decades
Gestalt Psychology - correct answer ✔✔roughly translates to "whole;" deals with
the fact that although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual
parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is often what the individual
responds to in perception...example, a song may be made up of individual notes
played by different instruments, but the real nature of the song is perceived in the
combinations of these notes as they form the melody, rhythm, and harmony
Behaviorism - correct answer ✔✔(Pavlov, Watson, Skinner) Focusing only on
behavior, or what is observed externally. Helped gain scientific credibility because
of use of objective methods.
Skinner Box - correct answer ✔✔chamber that isolates the subject from the
external environment and has a behavior indicator such as a lever or a button.
When the animal pushes the button or lever, the box is able to deliver a positive
reinforcement of the behavior (such as food) or a punishment (such as a noise) or
