1. empiricism - ACCURATE ANSWER-Def: the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.
Personal: science is all about what we see and how we test it.
Ex: studying rats for behavior dashed on their senses
2. struc...
Psychology chapter 1 SAFMEDS Exam Questions With Complete Solution Latest Update 2024/2025
1. empiricism - ACCURATE ANSWER-Def: the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.
Personal: science is all about what we see and how we test it. Ex: studying rats for behavior dashed on their senses
2. structuralism - ACCURATE ANSWER-Def: an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind
Personal: the describing of how the objects (human or otherwise) structure is. Ex: describing an apple as red, crisp, has a core...etc)
3. functionalism - ACCURATE ANSWER-Def: a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function—how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish. Personal: mental how mental process affects the behavior. Ex: you get cut and your mind tells your body and emotions how they should act
4. experimental psychology - ACCURATE ANSWER-Def: the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method.
Personal: using experiments to study how things are Ex: putting rats in mazes and tests to study them
5. behaviorism - ACCURATE ANSWER-Def: the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)
Personal: psychology is studied unbiasedly and that it really isn't able to study what the person is thinking but through their behavior
Ex: mike is acting stranger than usual, so we can study what his unusual behavior is over what he is thinking
6. humanistic psychology - ACCURATE ANSWER-Def: historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth
Personal: if a person is well off,be it physically,mentally, emotionally, they are more likely to be able to grow more as a person
Ex: a marathon runner might be able to be more self confidant than those who only sit on their coaches and play video games
7. cognitive neuroscience - ACCURATE ANSWER-Def: the interdisciplinary study of the
brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language).
Personal: using what the person has going on inside their mind and how it links their and our perception, and what the communication barrier is.
Ex: tests that study what part of the brain goes off when the test subject feels something
is hurt etc.
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