1.1 Assessment: Introduction to Psychology

Where did the word psychology come from?

(a)  

Psyche means?

(a)  

Match the following terms

• The thinking of an organism

• Psychology

• An educated guess

• hypothesis

• Study of behavior by scientific research

• Physiological

• The study of....

• ology

• The biological functions of an organism

• Cognitive

Why did Socrates believe he WAS the wisest man Greece?

(a)  

Match the terms

• Not too much, not too little

• Golden Means

• Perfect world of ideas

• Phenomenal World

• Physical world we live in

• Noumenal World

Match the terms.

• Established the 1st psy lab 1879

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Method of self-observation

• Renee Descartes

• Makeup of conscious mental experience

• Structuralist

• Believe the mind and body are separate

• Dualism

• I think therefore I am

• Introspection

Match the terms

• Study the way humans and animals adapt

• Gestalt

• Heredity

• William James

• Whole pattern-behavior

• Functionalists

• Father of American Psychology

• Sir Francis Galton

Match the terms!

• Behavior based on response to events

• Pavlov

• Studied positive reinforcement

• B.F. Skinner

• Studied dogs behavior

• Behaviorists

• freedom directing your future & growth

• Humanistic Psychology

Match the terms

• Study the brain, nervous system

• Psychobiology

• Study

• Abraham Maslow

• Behavior is influenced by mental process

• Sociocultural Psychology

• Hierarchy of needs

• Cognitive Psychology

Match the goals of Psychology

• Describe or gather info about a behavior

• Exploration

• Desire to explain why people act

• Description

• Predict future behaviors

• Prediction

• Desire to influence future behavior

• Influence