AQA Approaches in Psychology

Where did Wundt open the first Psychology lab?

• London, England

• Moscow, Russia

• Leipzig, Germany

• Yale, America

Define introspection.

• Breaking down mental processes into the most basic components.

• The examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes.

• The idea that all knowledge should be directly observable.

• The possibility of refuting a hypothesis.

Which is not a feature of the scientific method?

• Standardized procedures

• Controlled environment

• Falsifiability

• Subjectivity

What is an assumption of the behaviorist approach?

• It is only interested in studying behavior that can be observed and measured.

• It believes that all behavior is innate.

• That everything psychological is first biological.

• That mental processes should be studied.

Classical Conditioning states that we learn through...

• Reinforcement

• Association

• Imitation

• All of the above

The stimulus that produces a natural reflexive response...

• The NS

• The UCS

• The UCR

• The CS

Define extinction...

• When the UCS no longer produces a response.

• When the NS is no longer associated with the UCS

• When the response goes extinct

• When the learnt response disappears but then returns.

When the previously extinct response returns..

• Extinction

• Spontaneous recovery

• Time contiguity

• Classical Conditioning

Operant Conditioning is learning through...

• Conditioning

• Reinforcement

• Observation

• Skinner

Define negative reinforcement

• When a stimulus is removed, to make the behavior stop.

• When a stimulus is removed, this increases the likelihood if the behavior.

• When you are punished so the behavior stops

• When you are punished so the behavior continues.