Psychology Exam questions and answers graded A+

Psychology Exam questions and
answers graded A+
Psychology - ANS✅✅the scientific study of mind and behavior



Nativism (Nature) - ANS✅✅the philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or
inborn.

i.e. innate, nativist, intuitive, genes, biology



Empiricism (Nurture) - ANS✅✅the philosophical view that all knowledge is acquired through
experience.

i.e. learned, empiricism, environment, experience, culture



Plato - ANS✅✅Nativism



Aristotle - ANS✅✅Empiricism



Wilhelm Wundt - ANS✅✅Structuralism, "father of psychology", opened the first psychological
laboratory, Consciousness, Introspection



William James - ANS✅✅Functionalism, first to take scientific approach to study Psychology,
emphasized how the mind functioned, wider variety of participants, adaptability and intelligence,
compared individual differences, women differ in ability and personality compared to men.



John Watson - ANS✅✅Believed he could condition anyone to be anything based on how you
rewarded or punished them based on things in their environment

i.e. conditioned baby to dislike toy by making loud sound when he'd reach for it



B.F. Skinner - ANS✅✅Conducted research on the nature and function of reinforcement, attention
as a powerful reinforcer

i.e. Positive, negative, intermittent reinforcement



Sigmund Freud - ANS✅✅Psychoanalytic theory, Psychoanalysis

, Mind - ANS✅✅Private inner experience



Behavior - ANS✅✅observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals



Functionalism - ANS✅✅study how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environments



Structuralism - ANS✅✅Analyze the mind by breaking it down into its basic components



Consciousness - ANS✅✅A person's subjective experience of the world and the mind



Introspection - ANS✅✅The subjective observation of one's own experience



Stimulus - ANS✅✅sensory input from the environment



Reaction Time - ANS✅✅the amount of time taken to respond to a specific stimulus



Physiology - ANS✅✅the study of biological processes, especially in the human body



Psychoanalytic Theory - ANS✅✅Unconscious mental processes in shaping feelings, thoughts, and
behaviors



Psychoanalysis - ANS✅✅A therapeutic approach that focuses on bringing unconscious material
into conscious awareness to better understand psychological disorders



Behaviorism - ANS✅✅An approach that advocates that psychologists restrict themselves to the
scientific study of objectively observable behavior



Positive Reinforcement - ANS✅✅Adding something in order to increase a response



Negative Reinforcement - ANS✅✅Taking something negative away in order to increase a response