Mod 2 Reading Guide APP S1 23

The marriage of ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   gave birth to ​ (c)  

• cognitive psychology
• neuroscience
• cognitive neuroscience

Psychology is ______ and globalizing.

On page 14, it talks about the nature-nurture issue. Do you think human behavior and personality is more impacted by our nature (the way we are born) or our nurture (the way we are raised)

• Nature

• Nurture

• Neither is more impactful

Why did you answer question # 3 the way you did (about being more nature or more nurture)?

Match the following

• behavior genetics

• inherited traits that better enable an organism to survive will be passed down to succeeding generations

• culture

• the study of relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior

• evolutionary psychology

• the enduring behaviors and ideas, attitudes and traditions shared by a group of people

• natural selection

• the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind

People diagnosed with specific learning disorder exhibit the same brain _______ whether they are Italian, French or British.

Match the following

• biological psychology

• the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning

• positive psychology

• the scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues

• behavioral psychology

• an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological and social-cultural viewpoints

• biopsychosocial approach

• the study of the links between biological and psychological processes

an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological and social-cultural viewpoints is known as the _____________ approach

Match the following

• psychological influences

• how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts

• biological influences

• societal and family expectations, peer and other group influences, culture, media

• social-cultural influences

• genetic predispositions, mutations, adaptive traits and genes responding to enviornments

• psychodynamic psychology

• learned fears, emotional responses, cognitive processing

Match the following

• evolutionary perspective

• how we learn observable resonses

• humanistic perspective

• how our body and brain enable emotions, memories; how our genes and environment influence our differences

• behavioral perspective

• how the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes

• biological perspective

• how we encode, process, store and retrieve information

• cognitive perspective

• how we can achieve personal growth and self-fulfillment