Unit 1 Text Questions Psychology
Review Questions
1.
What is the focus of community psychology?
Community psychology focus on dealing with mental health and social welfare issues within the community setting.
2.
List three medical services that a psychiatrist can provide but a psychologist cannot.
Human factors psychology, health psychology and community psychology. th 3. Mid-20 century humanism was a reaction against an earlier approach in psychology. Which approach was it?
Humanism was a reaction against an earlier approach in psychology which was supernatural.
4.
In which two present-day psychological perspectives would researchers be most likely to use brain images such as CT scans?
Cognitive and biological psychology, it both perspectives deal with how human mind think and human brain.
5.
In behavioral psychology, what is a stimulus and what is a response?
In behavioral psychology a stimulus constitutes the basis for behavior whereas is constitutes the basis for perception in perceptual psychology. And the behavioral result when a stimulus occurs is called a response.
Critical Thinking Questions
1.
How might studying psychology help you live a fuller, happier life? Give specific examples.
Psychology can easily be used in daily life. I could use it to help with stress or improve my memory.
2.
How did the methods of early structuralists and functionalists differ?
Name a psychologist that took each approach.
Wilhelm Wundt was a German scientist who founded a laboratory that took a structuralist approach to psychology. William James was an American that founded a lab at Harvard that took a functionalist approach.
3.
Contrast Sigmund Freud’s view of human nature with the view of
Abraham Maslow. With which, if either, view do you agree?
Abraham Maslow proposes of the Hierarchy of needs, which is a view of human which is by the emotional, psychological, physical,spiritual and social support systems. Maslow Frew created a “third choice” which went against
Freud’s psychoanalysis. He said
1.
What is the focus of community psychology?
Community psychology focus on dealing with mental health and social welfare issues within the community setting.
2.
List three medical services that a psychiatrist can provide but a psychologist cannot.
Human factors psychology, health psychology and community psychology. th 3. Mid-20 century humanism was a reaction against an earlier approach in psychology. Which approach was it?
Humanism was a reaction against an earlier approach in psychology which was supernatural.
4.
In which two present-day psychological perspectives would researchers be most likely to use brain images such as CT scans?
Cognitive and biological psychology, it both perspectives deal with how human mind think and human brain.
5.
In behavioral psychology, what is a stimulus and what is a response?
In behavioral psychology a stimulus constitutes the basis for behavior whereas is constitutes the basis for perception in perceptual psychology. And the behavioral result when a stimulus occurs is called a response.
Critical Thinking Questions
1.
How might studying psychology help you live a fuller, happier life? Give specific examples.
Psychology can easily be used in daily life. I could use it to help with stress or improve my memory.
2.
How did the methods of early structuralists and functionalists differ?
Name a psychologist that took each approach.
Wilhelm Wundt was a German scientist who founded a laboratory that took a structuralist approach to psychology. William James was an American that founded a lab at Harvard that took a functionalist approach.
3.
Contrast Sigmund Freud’s view of human nature with the view of
Abraham Maslow. With which, if either, view do you agree?
Abraham Maslow proposes of the Hierarchy of needs, which is a view of human which is by the emotional, psychological, physical,spiritual and social support systems. Maslow Frew created a “third choice” which went against
Freud’s psychoanalysis. He said