PSYC 3003 - Chapter 1
Behaviorism - correct answer-the study of behavior
Cognitive Psychology - correct answer-study of mental processes
Consciousness - correct answer-awareness of ourselves and our environment
Eugenics - correct answer-practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits
flashbulb memory - correct answer-highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally
significant event
Functionalism - correct answer-school of American psychology that focused on the utility of
consciousness
Gestalt Psychology - correct answer-attempt to study the unity of experience
Individual Differences - correct answer-ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior,
emotion, cognition, and development
Introspection - correct answer-method of focusing on internal processes
neural impulse - correct answer-electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to
communicate
Practitioner-Scholar Model - correct answer-model of training of professional psychologists
that emphasizes clinical practices
Psychophysics - correct answer-study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the
perception of those stimuli
Realism - correct answer-point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in
providing knowledge of the external world
Scientist-practitioner Model - correct answer-model of training professional psychologists
that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills
Structuralism - correct answer-school of American psychology that sought to describe the
elements of conscious experience
tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon - correct answer-inability to pull a word form memory even
though there is the sensation that that word is available
Behaviorism - correct answer-the study of behavior
Cognitive Psychology - correct answer-study of mental processes
Consciousness - correct answer-awareness of ourselves and our environment
Eugenics - correct answer-practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits
flashbulb memory - correct answer-highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally
significant event
Functionalism - correct answer-school of American psychology that focused on the utility of
consciousness
Gestalt Psychology - correct answer-attempt to study the unity of experience
Individual Differences - correct answer-ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior,
emotion, cognition, and development
Introspection - correct answer-method of focusing on internal processes
neural impulse - correct answer-electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to
communicate
Practitioner-Scholar Model - correct answer-model of training of professional psychologists
that emphasizes clinical practices
Psychophysics - correct answer-study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the
perception of those stimuli
Realism - correct answer-point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in
providing knowledge of the external world
Scientist-practitioner Model - correct answer-model of training professional psychologists
that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills
Structuralism - correct answer-school of American psychology that sought to describe the
elements of conscious experience
tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon - correct answer-inability to pull a word form memory even
though there is the sensation that that word is available
