Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Prologue Questions

We are supposed to write up four questions based on what we read in the prologue.
Question 1: What did the early schools include?
Answer 1: Structuralism and functionalism

Question 2: What three schools will be described in later chapters?
Answer 2: Gestalt psychology in chapter 6, behaviorism in Chapter 7, and psychoanalysis in Chapter 13.

Question 3: Who encouraged explorations of down-to-earth emotions, memories, willpower, habits, and moment-to-moment streams of consciousness?
Answer 3: philosopher-psychologist William James.

Question 4: What is psychology's biggest question?
Answer 4: nature-nurture issue

Question 5: What are psychology's seven current perspectives?
Answer 5: Neuroscience, Evolutionary, Behavior genetics, Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Social-cultural

Here are my five questions. Enjoy!

TTFN

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