Psych quiz

• Introspection


  Participants report out their thoughts or feelings
• Inheritable Traits


  how heredity influences a person's abilities, character, and behavior
• Humanistic psychology


  Personal growth and the achievement of maximum potential
• Psychoanalysis


  Therapy making the patient aware of their unconscious motives to regain control of their behaviours
• Gestalt


  Organizing bits and pieces of information into a whole
• Behaviorism


  behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
• Sturcturalism


  the analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind
• Functionalism


  Seeing how organisms adapt to their environment via behaviour and mental activities
• Scientific Method


  Gather information and answering questions
• applied science


  Finding ways to use scientific findings to tackle goals
• Basic Science


  the pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena
• Theory

  Assumption used to explain phenomena
• Hypothesis

  Assumptions about behaviour
• Psychology


  Scientific study of behaviour which is tested by science
• Cognitive


  Organisms thinking and understanding
• Physiological


  The physical process of an organism
• Nature


  Refers to biological heredity and genetic make up inherited by individuals
• Nurture 


  Used to describe environmental factors that influence an individual’s development
• Examples of Nature

  physical traits, personality traits, behavioural traits
• Examples of nurture

  parenting style, educational experience, cultural background
• Sigmund Freud

  • Coined the term penis envy
  • interested in dreams and free association
  • believed in transference
  • believed in Opedius complex
• Wilhelm Wundt

  • Was a structuralist
  • Developed the first lab for psychology
  • developed introspection
  • interested in the mind
• William James

  • Taught the first psychology course at harvard
  • thought thinking, feeling, learning, and remembering help us survive as a species
• Free association 


  Saying anything that comes to mind
• opedius complex

  A child’s first sexual feeling were for the mother and hatered for the father
• Transference 


  passing on feeling to another person
• B.F Skinner

  • Behviorist
  • thought behaviour was caused by external factors
  • created operant conditioning
  • worked with rats
• Operant conditioning 


  when an organism reacts to their environment when reinforcement is involved with learning behaviour
• Sir Francis Galton

  • found genius ran in the family ( blind spot experiment)
  • questioned if the world was better if we rid less desirable traits
• Rewards and Reinforcement

  B.F Skinner and Ivan Pavlov learned that if an organism is rewarded for a behaviour it will likely repeat it.
• Penis envy

  Women are jealous that men have a penis because they wish they had one
• Biological psychology

  Impact of biology on our behavior
• Sociocultural psychology 


  The influence of culture, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status influence our behavior
• Phrenology 


  Study of cyclical biological events
• Psychodynamic 


  Study of mental and emotional proccess that influence behaviour
• cognition 


  the mental action or process of gaining knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.