EXAM Questions and Answers
1.The Science of Behavior and Mental Processes
ANS Psychology
2.thought the mind and body were separate and that the mind goes on
after death. Also thought Knowledge was innate.
ANS Socrates and Plato
3.student of Plato; thought knowledge was obtained through experiences
ANS -
Aristotle
4.thought the mind and body were separate
ANS Rene Descartes
5.thought a mind at birth was a blank slate. helped form empiricism
ANS John Locke
6.knowledge is from experiences and therefor science should only rely
on observations and experiments.
ANS empiricism
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,7.father of Psychology
ANS Wilhelm Wundt
8.introduced structuralism which relied on introspection
ANS Edward Titchner
9.looking inward. An unreliable idea as the answers given differed from
per- son to person
ANS introspection
10.functionalist, taught Mary Whiton Calkin
ANS William James
11. was not allowed to get her Ph.D in Psychology but moved on to
become the first woman president of the American Psychology Association
(APA)
ANS Mary Whiton Calkin
12.first woman to get a Ph.D in Psychology and second woman president
of the APA
ANS Margaret Floy Washburn
13.explore with experiments
ANS experimental Psychologists
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, 14.rely on observation
ANS behaviorists
15.Carl Rogers; having our needs satisfied
ANS humanistic psychology
16.Brain activity in link to Mental activity
ANS cognitive Neuroscience
17.Nature V.S. Nurture
ANS Biggest debate in Psychology
18.Charles Darwin's Idea that those traits promoting survival will be
carried on to the next generation. Survival of the fittest
ANS Natural Selection
19.the differing complementary views which show different reasons as
for why something might occur
ANS levels of analysis
20.combines biological, psychological and social-cultural
ANS biopsychosocial ap- proach
21.studies the links between biological and psychological
ANS biological psychol- ogy
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