Unit 1 PSY 200 NVCC Test
What is psychology? - ✔✔The scientific study of the mind & body
What is the mind? - ✔✔The private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories &
feelings
What is behavior? - ✔✔Observab
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Unit 1 PSY 200 NVCC Test
What is psychology? - ✔✔The scientific study of the mind & body
What is the mind? - ✔✔The private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories &
feelings
What is behavior? - ✔✔Observable actions of all beings
What are the three key questions in psychology? - ✔✔1. Where does the mind come from?
2. What is the mind for?
3. Why does the mind fail?
What is the nativism? - ✔✔The philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or
inborn.
What is philosophical empiricism? - ✔✔the view that all knowledge is acquired through
experience.
whats "nurture" ? - ✔✔human behavior is determine by environment
Whats "nature" - ✔✔human behavior is determine by experiences
What is phrenology? - ✔✔theory that certain traits and one's capacity for psychological traits can
be found in certain parts of the brain
How did work with brain damaged patients help establish a mind- body connection? - ✔✔Broca
had a brain-damaged patient that could only comprehend speech but couldn't communicate
through speech, showed close link between brain and mind.
What is physiology? - ✔✔study of biological processes in the human body and mind
Who is credited as being the founder of psychology including teaching its first course in 1867
and opening its first lab? - ✔✔Wilhelm Wundt
What is consciousness? - ✔✔experience of the world and mind based on personal feelings, tastes
or opinions
How did Wundt study consciousness using stimuli and reaction time? - ✔✔conducted
measurable tests, such as the tone identification.
What is structuralism? - ✔✔analysis of the basic elements of the mind
What is introspection? - ✔✔observation of one's experience personally
What is the problem with using introspection as a research method? - ✔✔people have individual
minds, thoughts, and opinions and will see things differently than others
What is functionalism? - ✔✔study of how our mental processes allow us to adapt to our
environment
How did William James differ from Wundt in how he believed consciousness should be studied?
- ✔✔James believed that consciousness could not be broken into parts and analyzed but it was a
stream of elements.
Which man thought consciousness was a stream? - ✔✔William James
Which man thought it could be broken up? - ✔✔Wundt
What is natural selection? - ✔✔theory that traits and skills of an organism that help it survive
and reproduce are more likely to be passed than other features
What is hysteria? - ✔✔temporary loss in cognitive and motor skills due to a high stress situation
or stimuli
What is the unconscious? - ✔✔the mind that influences the conscious awareness in thoughts,
feelings, and actions.
What is the emphasis in Freud's psychoanalytic theory? - ✔✔the unconscious anxieties, conflicts
and desires
What is psychoanalysis? - ✔✔therapeutic approach with a focus on bringing the unconscious
material into awareness to better understand psychological disorders
What were some criticisms of Freud's approach? - ✔✔That it was hard to test and therefore was
of limited use
What is humanistic psychology? - ✔✔an approach to understanding human nature by urging
individuals to increase their positive potential.
Who were the founders of humanistic psychology? - ✔✔Abraham Masl
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