Introduction to Psychology & Biblical Counseling Midterm

Micro Level

[________________] Level: Smallest level of analysis; Studying things like the role of the brain in memory.

Wilhelm Wundt; Germany

Modern psychology began in 1879 when

[________________] founded the first experimental psychology laboratory in

[________________].

Molecular Level

[________________] Level: Studies somewhat larger units of observable behavior, such as the speed of reacting to a simple stimulus.

Macro Level

[________________] Level: Investigates large units of behavior of the whole person in complex situations.

Placebo Effect

Sometimes it’s the power of this belief that a treatment will work that results in the cure & not any special power of the supposed treatment itself.

subjects

Assessing Studies first involves finding out the [________________] in any study, how many of them participated, & how they were selected.

Assumption

Avoid the [________________] that two things that go together are cause & effect.

Causation

Correlation is not necessarily [________________].

Psychometrics

Psychologists use [________________], mental testing in all its varieties.

Cognitive tests

[________________] measure various aspects of your mental ability (e.g., ACT, SAT).

Personality tests

[________________] try to measure the noncognitive parts of human personality: your interests, values, & personality traits.

Projective tests

[________________] help some clinical psychologists assess mental & emotional problems (e.g., Rorschach, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory).

Brainstem

[________________] connects the brain to the nerves in the spinal cord; it's the center for basic life support.

Cerebellum

[________________] coordinates body movements, controls posture, & maintains equilibrium.

Limbic System

[________________] maintains the balance of the body's internal workings & regulates emotions.

Cereba

[________________] translates nerve impulses into images, symbols, words, & ideas.

Learning

[________________] is the way that a species profits from its experience; the mechanism by which PAST experience guides future behavior.

Pavlov; Classical Conditioning

[________________] was a noted Russian scientist who won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine in 1904; discovered a fundamental type of learning called [________________].

Antecedents; Behavior; Consequences

Psychology's ABCs: [________________], [________________], & [________________].

Five

One out of every [________________] Americans suffer from some form of recently diagnosed mental disorder.

French physician

The great [________________], Philippe Pinel, was one of the first to see people with psychological problems as sick.

Anxiety

[________________] Disorders, such as phobias, are one of the three major types of mental illnesses.

Affective

[________________] Disorders, in which the primary symptoms are disturbances in mood, such as depression or mania. This is another one of the three major types of mental illnesses.

Schizophrenic

[________________] Disorders. This is yet another one of the three major types of mental illnesses.

common-cold

Depression is characterized as the [________________] of psychopathology.

cancer

Schizophrenia is the [________________] of mental illness.

Biomedical; Psychological/Psychotherapy

Two Major Therapeutic Approaches: [________________] & [________________]

30

Approximately [________________]% of our brain is devoted to vision. Light energy converted to neural signals travels from the retina to the thalamus. Then these signals move to the back of each hemisphere of the brain to an area called the primary visual cortex.

Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy Theory

Abraham Maslow - Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.

I will sin to get it; I will sin if I don't get it.

Two ways to determine if I have an "idol of the heart:" [________________]; [________________]

James 4:1-6

[ _____ _ : _ -_ ]: The passage of Scripture, that we used in class, that tells us what motivates us.

Sigmund Freud

Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic - Leader: [________________]

an instinctual animal dominated by instincts of sex/aggression. (Id, Ego, & Superego)

Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic - Key Concept: Man is [________________]

B.F. Skinner

Behavioral (Modification) - Leader: [________________]

a conditioned animal.

Behavioral (Modification) - Key Concept: Man is [________________]

Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow

Humanistic Self Theorists - Leaders: [________________] & [________________]

basically good.

Humanistic Self Theorists - Key Concept: Man is [________________]

David Burns

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Leader: [________________]

Nurture is largely irrelevant (you attach meaning to your own circumstances).

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Key Concept: [________________]

Psychiatrists/Neuroscientists

Medical Model - Leaders: [________________]

a biological machine.

Medical Model - Key Concept: Man is [________________]

Jay Adams

Nouthetic - Leader: [________________]

created by God to glorify/worship God.

Nouthetic - Key Concept: Man is [________________]

central person of life; Christ

Does the system make the counselee the [________________] & hinder the centrality of [________________]?

dying to self; loving God & others

Does this theory or practice reinforce selfism - hindering the [________________] & [________________]?

power of the Gospel; power to change

How could this theory detract from the [________________] to change lives? Where's the [________________]?

Scripture; the issues of life

Would this theory rob [________________] of being the primary lens through which to understand [________________]?

Church; authority

Would this counseling system rob the [________________]of its [________________]?

image bearers; evolved animals

Does this theory acknowledge humans as [________________], or purport us as [________________]?

sin nature; blank slate

Does this system acknowledge humans are infected with a [________________], or believe that we are born as a [________________]?