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Intro Psych-Chpt 1
Introduction to psychology
Question | Answer |
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Psychology | science of behavior and mental processes |
Behavior | a person's overt actions that others can directly observe directly observable and measurable actions |
Mental Processes | private psychological activities that include thinking, perceiving, and feeling. |
Science | approach to knowledge based on systematic observation |
What are the goals of Psychology? | Describe (DUPI) Predict Understand Influence |
Theories | tentative explanations of facts and relationships sciences |
Who was the greek philosopher who wrote about psyche & first broadly defined the subject matter? | Aristotle |
What was Wundt & Titchener's viewpoint called? | Structuralism |
What is introspection? | method of looking inwardly at one's own conscious experiences. |
What is structuralism? | 19th century school of psychology that sought to determine the structure of the mind through controlled introspection. |
Who established first laboratory of psychology? | Wilhelm Wundt |