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Possible Bonus - Answers -Grew Up in Springfield Missouri
-Jayhawks basketball
-Steve husband
-Colin and Melanie age 16 and 13
-Development psychologist studying infant visual attention
Psyche - Answers means soul - often represented by a butterfly. Was mortal whose beauty rivaled
Aphrodite.
Psychology - Answers The scientific study of the mind (can't see) and behavior (can see)
Important Date for Psychology - Answers 1879 - Wundt established the first psychology lab at the
University of Leipzig in Germany
empirical method - Answers based on observation, including experimentation, rather than a method
based only on forms of logical argument or previous authorities.
Wilhelm Wundt - Answers Structuralism - Sought to understand the structure or characteristics of the
mind. Used Introspection
Introspection - Answers a process by which someone examines their own conscious experience as
objectively as possible
William James - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers (Pavlov, Watson, Skinner) Focusing only on behavior, or what is observed
externally. Helped gain scientific credibility because of use of objective methods.
, Skinner Box - Answers 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 a token conditioner (such as a light) that is correlated with either the positive reinforcement or
punishment
Humanism - Answers Maslow and Rogers - emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all
humans
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (high level) - Answers Maslow asserted that so long as basic needs
necessary for survival were met (e.g., food, water, shelter), higher-level needs (e.g., social needs) would
begin to motivate behavior. According to Maslow, the highest-level needs relate to self-actualization, a
process by which we achieve our full potential
Cognitivism - Answers Piaget and Neisser - Focus on the mental processes involved in thinking and
reasoning. Model of "Mind as a computer"
Feminist Psychology - Answers Naomi Weisstein, first published in 1968 (Weisstein, 1993), stimulated a
feminist revolution in psychology by presenting a critique of psychology as a science. She also specifically
criticized male psychologists for constructing the psychology of women entirely out of their own cultural
biases and without careful experimental tests to verify any of their characterizations of women
Crawford & Marecek (1989) identify several feminist approaches to psychology that can be described as
feminist psychology. These include re-evaluating and discovering the contributions of women to the
history of psychology, studying psychological gender differences, and questioning the male bias present
across the practice of the scientific approach to knowledge.
Karen Horney: disagreed with Freud about inherent sex differences
multicultural psychology - Answers the field that examines the impact of culture, race, ethnicity, and
gender on behaviors and thoughts and focuses on how such factors may influence the origin, nature,
and treatment of abnormal behavior
Kenneth Clark - famous doll study
- How does societal discrimination affect children's self views of themselves
- Sited in Brown vs. Board of Education
American Psychological Association (APA) - Answers professional organization representing
psychologists in the United States. 56 divisions.
Possible Bonus - Answers -Grew Up in Springfield Missouri
-Jayhawks basketball
-Steve husband
-Colin and Melanie age 16 and 13
-Development psychologist studying infant visual attention
Psyche - Answers means soul - often represented by a butterfly. Was mortal whose beauty rivaled
Aphrodite.
Psychology - Answers The scientific study of the mind (can't see) and behavior (can see)
Important Date for Psychology - Answers 1879 - Wundt established the first psychology lab at the
University of Leipzig in Germany
empirical method - Answers based on observation, including experimentation, rather than a method
based only on forms of logical argument or previous authorities.
Wilhelm Wundt - Answers Structuralism - Sought to understand the structure or characteristics of the
mind. Used Introspection
Introspection - Answers a process by which someone examines their own conscious experience as
objectively as possible
William James - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers 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 - Answers (Pavlov, Watson, Skinner) Focusing only on behavior, or what is observed
externally. Helped gain scientific credibility because of use of objective methods.
, Skinner Box - Answers 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 a token conditioner (such as a light) that is correlated with either the positive reinforcement or
punishment
Humanism - Answers Maslow and Rogers - emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all
humans
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (high level) - Answers Maslow asserted that so long as basic needs
necessary for survival were met (e.g., food, water, shelter), higher-level needs (e.g., social needs) would
begin to motivate behavior. According to Maslow, the highest-level needs relate to self-actualization, a
process by which we achieve our full potential
Cognitivism - Answers Piaget and Neisser - Focus on the mental processes involved in thinking and
reasoning. Model of "Mind as a computer"
Feminist Psychology - Answers Naomi Weisstein, first published in 1968 (Weisstein, 1993), stimulated a
feminist revolution in psychology by presenting a critique of psychology as a science. She also specifically
criticized male psychologists for constructing the psychology of women entirely out of their own cultural
biases and without careful experimental tests to verify any of their characterizations of women
Crawford & Marecek (1989) identify several feminist approaches to psychology that can be described as
feminist psychology. These include re-evaluating and discovering the contributions of women to the
history of psychology, studying psychological gender differences, and questioning the male bias present
across the practice of the scientific approach to knowledge.
Karen Horney: disagreed with Freud about inherent sex differences
multicultural psychology - Answers the field that examines the impact of culture, race, ethnicity, and
gender on behaviors and thoughts and focuses on how such factors may influence the origin, nature,
and treatment of abnormal behavior
Kenneth Clark - famous doll study
- How does societal discrimination affect children's self views of themselves
- Sited in Brown vs. Board of Education
American Psychological Association (APA) - Answers professional organization representing
psychologists in the United States. 56 divisions.
