What Is Psychology? (CBSE Grade 11)

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True

Developmental psychology has both research and applied aspects. (True/False)

subjective

Experiences are ________________ in nature.

True

Functionalist psychologists were interested in the fact that mind and behaviors are adaptive - they enable an individual to adjust to a changing environment. (True/False)

unconscious motivation

The term ________________ describes the key idea of psychoanalysis.

True

The word 'psychology' is derived from the Greek words 'psyche' meaning 'mind' and 'logos' meaning 'experiment'. (True/False)

True

The work of the counseling psychologist is quite similar to that of the clinical psychologist. (True/False)

Remembering, learning, knowing, perceiving, feeling (any 3)

________________ ,________________ and ________________ are a few mental processes.

unconscious

According to psychoanalytic theory, the urges and drives are hidden from the awareness of the individual, in other words, they are

True

J.B.Watson rejected mind as the subject of psychology and insisted that psychology be restricted to the study of behavior - the observable activities of people and animals. (True/False)

True

James and Wundt thought that 'psychology is the study of the mind'. (True/False)

J.B.Watson

The Behaviorist school of Psychology was founded by

True

The German word Gestalt means 'form' or 'configuration'. (True/False)

Wolfgang Kohler

The Gestalt school was found by

William James

The famous book 'Principles of Psychology's written by

Wilhelm Wundt

The first psychological library was established by

Abraham Maslow

The humanistic approach to psychology was developed mainly by

True

The main method used by the structuralists to discover these elementary units of mind was introspection. (True/False)

Wilhelm Wundt

The school of structuralism was established by

Descartes

________________ influenced and infused Physics in the Hypothetic Deductive model.

Biopsychology

___________________ is concerned with the attempt to understand human behavior from the biological perspective.

Community

___________________ psychology is a broad field in which psychological knowledge is brought to bear upon social problems.

Cognitive

___________________ psychology is concerned with internal processes such as attention, perception, thinking, reasoning, language and memory.


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