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Science of Psych2
Contemporary Approaches
Question | Answer |
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The scientific study of the structure, function, development, genetics, and biochemistry of the nervous system, emphasizing that the brain and nervous system are central to understanding behavior, thought, and emotion. | Neuroscience |
An approach to psychology focusing on the body, especially the brain and nervous system. | Biological approach |
An approach to psychology emphasizing the scientific study of observable behavioral responses and their environmental determinants. | Behavioral approach |
An approach to psychology emphasizing unconscious thought, the conflict between biological drives(eg.sex)and society's demands, and early childhood family experiences. | psychodynamic |
Name to behaviorists | John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner |
thought processes | cognition |
The founding father of the psychodynamic approach | Sigmund Freud |
the therapeutic technique involving an analyst's unlocking a person's uconscious conflicts by talking about childhood memories, dreams, thoughts and feelings. | psychoanalysis |
Todays psychodyanmic theories tend to palce less/more emphasis on sexual drives and less/more on cultural or social experiences as determinants of behavior. | less/more |
an approach to psychology emphasizing a person's positive qualities, the capacity for positive growth and the freedom to choose any destiny. | humanistic approach |
An approach to psychology emphasizing the mental processes involved in knowing: how we direct our attention, perceive, remeber,think and solve problems. | Cognitive approach |
unselfish concern for other people's well-being | altruism |
An approach to psychogy centered on evolutionary ideas such as adaptation, reproduction, and natural selection as the basis for explaining specific human behaviors. | Evolutionary approach |
An approach to psychology that examines the ways in which social and cultural environments influence behavior. | Sociocultural approach |