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PSYC-1 Vocab
Psych101 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| psychology | The scientific study of behavior and mind |
| mind | The contents and processes of subjective experience: sensations, thoughts, and emotions. |
| behavior | Observable actions such as moving about, talking, gesturing, and so on; can also refer to the activities of cells and to thoughts and feelings |
| clinical psychologist | psychologist who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological probles |
| psychiatrists | Medical doctors who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems |
| applied psychologists | Psychologists who extend the principles of scientific psychology to practical problems in the world |
| research psychologists | Psychologists who try to discover the basic principles of behavior and mind |
| empiricism | The idea that knowledge comes directly from experience |
| nativism | The idea that some knowledge is innate, or present at birth |
| Gestalt psychology | A movement proposing that certain organizing principles of perception are innate and cannot be altered by experience |
| structuralism | An early school of psychology; -ists tried to understand the mind by breaking it down into basic parts, much as a chemist might try to understand a chemical compound. |
| systematic introspection | An early technique used to study the mind; required people to look inward and describe their own experiences |
| functionalism | An early school of psychology; -ists believed that the proper way to understand ind and behavior is to first analyze their function and purpose. |
| psychoanalysis | A term used by Freud to describe his theory of mind and system of therapy |
| humanistic psychology | A movement in psychology that focuses on people's unique capacities for choice, responsibility, and growth |
| behaviorism | A school of psychology proposing that the only proper subject matter of psychology is observable behavior rather than immediate conscious experience. |
| eclectic approach | The idea that it's useful to select information from several sources rather than to rely entirely on a single perspective or school of thought |
| evolutionary psychology | A movement proposing that we're born with mental processes and "software" that we acquired through natural selection in our ancestral past and help us to solve specific adaptive problems |
| culture | The shared values, customs, and beliefs of a group or community |
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