Psychology Unit Test Review

The study and application of how the brain learns and the study of mental processes like thinking, knowing and remembering refers to which school of thought?

• Cognitive Psychology

• Behavioral Psychology

• Social Learning Theory

• Operant Conditioning

According to this humanist psychologist, we must meet our lower-level needs before we can seek self-actualization:

• Harry Harlow

• Jean Piaget

• Ivan Pavlov

• Abraham Maslow

This developmental psychologist believed that humans continued to develop over their lifetime rather than just in childhood.

• Erik Erikson

• Jean Piaget

• Donald Johansson

• Sigmund Freud

This type of motivation is the desire to perform a task because of outside factors, such as a reward or threat of punishment

• Intrinsic

• Extrinsic

• Self-regulation

• Initiative

The part of the personality representing the conscience, formed in early life by internalization of the standards of parents and other models of behaviour

• Id

• Ego

• Super Ego

• Psycho dynamic theory

The continued focus on an earlier stage of psycho sexual development due to an unresolved conflict at the oral, anal, and phallic stage

• Fixation

• Sigmund Freud

• Archetypes

• Stimulus

A time in a teenager’s life filled with extreme self-consciousness as they attempt to test various roles

• Trust vs. Mistrust

• Identity Crisis

• Introvert

• Extrovert

The understanding that materials continue to exist even when they cannot be perceived (seen, heard, touched, smelled or sensed in any way)

• Object disappearing

• Object Permanence

• Stability

• Cultural Materialism

An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and acting

• Extrovert

• Introvert

• Personality

• Behavior

A mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses onto someone else

• Projection

• Anger

• Rage

• Blame