Psychology

Every psychological event is simultaneously a biological event.

true

Explain how researchers working from each of psychology major perspective might investigate an emotion such as love

A psychologist working from a neuroscience perspective might study the brain circuits and body chemistry that trigger attraction and sexual arousal. A evolutionary perspective might analyze how love has facilitated the survival of our species. Behavior genetic perspective might attempt to compare the extent to which the emotion is attributable to our genes and the extent to which it is attributable to our environment

The nature-nurture debate has a long history in philosophy and psychology. For example, Plato suggested that some ideas and traits are inherited. This idea was later supported by the work of

Charles Darwin.

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Psychodynamic perspective might search for evidence that a person's particular emotional feelings are disguised effects of unfulfilled wishes. Behavioral perspective might study the external stimuli, such as body language, that elicit and reward approach behaviors toward one another person. Cognitive perspective might study how our thought processes, attitudes, and beliefs foster attachment to loved ones. Social-Cultural perspective might explore situational influences on attraction and how the development and expression of love vary across cultural groups

When and how did psychological science begin?

Psychological science had its modern beginning with the first psychological laboratory, founded in 1879 by German philosopher and physiologist Wilhelm Wundt, and from the later work of other scholars from several disciplines and many countries.

What is psychology's historic big issue?

Psychology's biggest and most enduring issue concerns the relative contributions and interplay between the influences of nature (genes) and nurture (all other influences, from conception to death). Today's science emphasizes the interaction of genes and experiences in specific environments.

What are psychology's main subfields?

Psychology's subfields encompass basic research (often done by biological, developmental, cognitive, personality, and social psychologists), applied research (sometimes conducted by industrial/organizational psychologists), and clinical science and applications (the work of counseling psychologists and clinical psychologists). Clinical psychologists study, assess, and treat (with psychotherapy) people with psychological disorders. Psychiatrists also study, assess, and treat people with disorders, but as medical doctors, they may prescribe drugs in addition to psychotherapy.

What are psychology's levels of analysis and related perspectives?

The biopsychosocial approach integrates information from the biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis. Psychologists study human behaviors and mental processes from many different perspectives (including the neuroscien-tific, evolutionary, behavior genetics, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and social-cultural perspectives).

In December of 1879, he created the very first psychology laboratory in Germany

Wundt

A focus on how much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences is most relevant to the ____________ perspective.

behavior genetics

Psychology three main levels of analysis often contradict each other

false

Today, most psychologist work within the behavioral perspective

false

the major perspectives in psychology contradict each other

false

the primary research tool of the first psychologist was the experiment

false

How did psychology continue to develop from the 1920s through today?

having begun as a "science of mental life," psychology evolved in the 1920s into the "scientific study of observable behavior." After rediscovering the mind, psychology since the 1960s has been widely defined as the science of behavior and mental processes.

You begin seeing a therapist to cope with a number of stressful life events. The therapist does not focus on your childhood or on any learned behaviors, but rather she emphasizes the importance of your need for love and acceptance. Which school of thought does she belong to?

humanistic psychology

It is 1965, and Professor Skinner is lecturing in your introductory course. He defines psychology as "the scientific study of __________________."

observable behavior

A focus on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures is most relevant to the ____________ perspective.

social-cultural

the school of structuralism fell from favor in part because the method of introspection was unreliable

true

the subject matter of psychology has changed over the history field.

true

Psychology is most accurately described as

ways of asking an answering questions.