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WorksheetsApproaches to Psychology
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Who was the first person to be referred to as a psychologist? (HINT: Who was the first person we discussed?)
Sigmund Freud
Wilhelm Wundt
Carl Jung
Ivan Pavlov
What did functionalism focus on?
The structure of the mind
How mental activities helped an organism adapt to fit into its environment
The interpretation of dreams
The treatment of mental disorders
According to Freud, what is the unconscious mind a repository of?
Memories and thoughts
Urges and Motivations
Skills and habits
Knowledge and beliefs
What is the focus of psychoanalytic theory?
Conscious thoughts and behaviors
The role of a person's unconscious thoughts and early childhood experiences
Social interactions and relationships
Biological processes and genetics
What is Abraham Maslow best known for in the field of psychology?
Developing the theory of classical conditioning
Proposing a hierarchy of basic human needs
Creating the concept of operant conditioning
Introducing the idea of the unconscious mind
What approach has cognitive psychology taken due to cooperation between all different disciplines?
A disciplinary approach
A monodisciplinary approach
An interdisciplinary approach
A unidisciplinary approach
What does cognitive psychology generally reject as a valid method of investigation because it is too subjective? (HINT: It is the process that structuralism uses to examine thoughts and feelings.)
The scientific method
Introspection
Behavioral analysis
Cognitive analysis
Which of the following is a key characteristic of cognitive psychology?
Accepting the use of the scientific method
Introspection
Focus is on unconscious thoughts, urges, and motivations
Emphasizing behavior over mental processes
Early psychological perspective that emphasized the structure or characteristics of the mind/thought and identification of elements of thought using introspection
Structuralism
Functionalism
Monism
Dualism
Psychological perspective concerned with individual potential for growth and the role of unique perceptions in growth toward one’s potential because people are basically good.
behavioral
biological
socio-cultural
humanistic
The psychological perspective concerned with how unconscious instincts, conflicts, motives, and defenses influence behavior.
functionalism
behavioral
psychoanalytic
humanistic
Approach that believes people are influenced by consequences, in the form of reinforcement and punishment.
Humanism
Cognitive
Behaviorism
Psychoanalytic
Examine how people think through and store info (memory). Language, decision-making, deductive reasoning, problem-solving
Biological Domain
Clinical Domain
Cognitive Domain
Counseling Domain
Developmental Domain
Study and understand human mental, social, and emotional growth over the course of life.
Biological Domain
Clinical Domain
Cognitive Domain
Counseling Domain
Developmental Domain
