1.1 Assessment: Introduction to Psychology

Where did the word psychology come from?

Psyche means?

Match the following terms

• The thinking of an organism

• hypothesis

• The biological functions of an organism

• Psychology

• Study of behavior by scientific research

• ology

• An educated guess

• Cognitive

• The study of....

• Physiological

Why did Socrates believe he WAS the wisest man Greece?

Match the terms

• Perfect world of ideas

• Golden Means

• Physical world we live in

• Phenomenal World

• Not too much, not too little

• Noumenal World

Match the terms.

• Method of self-observation

• Dualism

• Makeup of conscious mental experience

• Introspection

• Believe the mind and body are separate

• Structuralist

• Established the 1st psy lab 1879

• Wilhelm Wundt

• I think therefore I am

• Renee Descartes

Match the terms

• Father of American Psychology

• William James

• Study the way humans and animals adapt

• Functionalists

• Whole pattern-behavior

• Sir Francis Galton

• Heredity

• Gestalt

Match the terms!

• freedom directing your future & growth

• Pavlov

• Behavior based on response to events

• B.F. Skinner

• Studied positive reinforcement

• Behaviorists

• Studied dogs behavior

• Humanistic Psychology

Match the terms

• Study

• Abraham Maslow

• Hierarchy of needs

• Cognitive Psychology

• Behavior is influenced by mental process

• Sociocultural Psychology

• Study the brain, nervous system

• Psychobiology

Match the goals of Psychology

• Desire to influence future behavior

• Exploration

• Describe or gather info about a behavior

• Prediction

• Predict future behaviors

• Influence

• Desire to explain why people act

• Description