UVIC Psych 210 Exam 1 || Errorless Answers 100%.
Structuralism correct answers Tichener's system of psychology, which dealt with conscious
experience as dependent on experiencing persons
Functionalism correct answers A system of psychology concerned with the mind as it is used in
an organisms adaptation to its environment
Behaviourism correct answers Watson's science of behaviour, which dealt solely with observable
acts that could be described in objective terms
Gestalt Psychology correct answers A system of psychology that focuses largely on learning and
perception, suggesting that combining sensory elements produces new patterns with properties
that did not exist in the individual element
Humanistic Psychology correct answers A system of psychology that emphasizes the study of
conscious experience and the wholeness of human nature
Psychoanalysis correct answers Freud's theory of personality and a system of psychotherapy
Cognitive Psychology correct answers A system of psychology that focuses on the processes of
knowing, on how the mind actively organizes experiences
Personalistic Theory correct answers The view that progress and change in scientific history are
attributable to the ideas of unique individuals
Naturalistic Theory correct answers The view that progress and change in scientific history are
attributable to the Zeitgeist, which make a culture receptive to some ideas but not to others
, School of Thought correct answers A group of psychologists who become associated
ideologically, and sometimes geographically, with the leader of a movement
Zeitgeist correct answers The intellectual and cultural climate or spirit of the times
Histiography correct answers The principles, methods, and philosophical issues of historical
research
Mechanism correct answers The doctrine that natural processes are mechanically determined and
capable of explanation by the laws of physics and chemistry
Determinism correct answers The doctrine that acts are determined by past events
Reductionism correct answers The doctrine that explains phenomena on one level (such as
complex ideas) in terms of phenomena on another level (such as simple ideas), ex: disassemble a
clock to see how it works, springs/gears
Empiricism correct answers The pursuit of knowledge through the observation of nature and the
attribution of all knowledge to experience
Mind-Body problem correct answers The question of the distinction between mental and
physical qualities
Relax Action Theory correct answers The idea that an external object (stimulus) can bring about
an involuntary response
Derived Ideas correct answers Produced by the direct application an external stimulus (the idea
of the bell or a tree)
Structuralism correct answers Tichener's system of psychology, which dealt with conscious
experience as dependent on experiencing persons
Functionalism correct answers A system of psychology concerned with the mind as it is used in
an organisms adaptation to its environment
Behaviourism correct answers Watson's science of behaviour, which dealt solely with observable
acts that could be described in objective terms
Gestalt Psychology correct answers A system of psychology that focuses largely on learning and
perception, suggesting that combining sensory elements produces new patterns with properties
that did not exist in the individual element
Humanistic Psychology correct answers A system of psychology that emphasizes the study of
conscious experience and the wholeness of human nature
Psychoanalysis correct answers Freud's theory of personality and a system of psychotherapy
Cognitive Psychology correct answers A system of psychology that focuses on the processes of
knowing, on how the mind actively organizes experiences
Personalistic Theory correct answers The view that progress and change in scientific history are
attributable to the ideas of unique individuals
Naturalistic Theory correct answers The view that progress and change in scientific history are
attributable to the Zeitgeist, which make a culture receptive to some ideas but not to others
, School of Thought correct answers A group of psychologists who become associated
ideologically, and sometimes geographically, with the leader of a movement
Zeitgeist correct answers The intellectual and cultural climate or spirit of the times
Histiography correct answers The principles, methods, and philosophical issues of historical
research
Mechanism correct answers The doctrine that natural processes are mechanically determined and
capable of explanation by the laws of physics and chemistry
Determinism correct answers The doctrine that acts are determined by past events
Reductionism correct answers The doctrine that explains phenomena on one level (such as
complex ideas) in terms of phenomena on another level (such as simple ideas), ex: disassemble a
clock to see how it works, springs/gears
Empiricism correct answers The pursuit of knowledge through the observation of nature and the
attribution of all knowledge to experience
Mind-Body problem correct answers The question of the distinction between mental and
physical qualities
Relax Action Theory correct answers The idea that an external object (stimulus) can bring about
an involuntary response
Derived Ideas correct answers Produced by the direct application an external stimulus (the idea
of the bell or a tree)
