Psychology Chapter 1 Reviewer

[blank_start]Psyche[blank_end] means "mind" or "soul"

The Greek word Logos means "word"

Psychology is the systematic study of [blank_start]behavior[blank_end] and [blank_start]experience[blank_end]

"[blank_start]it depends[blank_end]" is the general truth of Psychology

Free will is the assumption that everything that happens has an identifiable and observable cause

What is Free Will?

What is Dualism?

Main Area/s of Psychology Practice

Which psychotherapist would prescribe a mood stabilizing medication to a patient diagnosed with bipolar disorder?

Which psychotherapist provides counseling and support for recovering addicts in a halfway house?

Which psychologist would help a middle-aged woman transitioning from work as a homemaker back to college?

They use developmental, learning, and motivational principles and educational and psychological tests to create plans for individual students

How does culture affect taste preferences? Which cultures place more emphasis on group interests and how does that affect individual behavior?

How does brain damage from drug abuse change an individual’s behavior?

What do people do or know as adults that they do not know as children? Is this due to biological changes, increased experience, or both?

What do “experts” in a field know or do that sets them apart from other people?

"Workers in two departments at an engineering firm are withholding information from each other. This is harming company morale and productivity. Can this be remedied without firing or moving any employees?" An Industrial/Organizational Psychologist would be best suited to answer this question.

[blank_start]Overt[blank_end] is a type of behavior that is observable

Dreaming is what type of behavior? [blank_start]Covert[blank_end]

In 1879, [blank_start]Wilhelm Wundt[blank_end] established the first laboratory devoted to psychological research

Founder of American Psychology and paved the way for the rise of behaviorism. [blank_start]William James[blank_end]

One of Wundt's students and attempted to analyze the elements of mental experience relying on people's own observations-- discouraging other psychologists with his approach. [blank_start]Edward Titchener[blank_end]

His theories heavily influenced the early development of psychotherapy. [blank_start]Sigmund Freud[blank_end]

Systemized the behaviorist approach and popularized it

[blank_start]Alfred Binet[blank_end] was a French psychologist who invented the first practical intelligence test

What is Functionalism?

Structuralism is a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience.

[blank_start]Behaviorism[blank_end] is an approach to psychology that focuses on an individual's behavior.

What is introspection?

[blank_start]Monism[blank_end] states that conscious experience is generated by and inseparable from the brain