Question: Psychoanalytic

Answer: Behavior is influenced by conflicts in the unconscious mind.

Question: Humanistic

Answer: People’s behaviors and development are driven by a desire to improve their lives.

Question: Functionalism

Answer: It is important to understand how the mind has adapted to perform certain tasks that allow us to survive.

Question: Cognitive

Answer: Behavior is influenced by people’s intelligence, memory, and thoughts—not just by the rewards and punishments they have received.

Question: Structuralism

Answer: An experience can be analyzed by looking at the individual pieces that make it up.

Question: Behaviorism

Answer: Psychology should only study events that can be directly observed.

Question: Gestalt

Answer: Experiences should not be broken down into their constituent parts.

Question: Which of the following key ethical decisions would an institutional review board approve of?

Answer: 1) Keeping study participants’ data confidential.

2) Protecting study participants from potential mental and physical risk.

3) Obtaining informed consent.

Question: Sigmund Freud

Answer: founded the psychoanalytic theory

Question: John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner

Answer: founded the theory of behaviorism