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Psych. SCD
Psych Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The scietific study of behavior and mental processes | Psychology |
| Any action that people can observe or mesure | Behavior |
| Private mental processes, such as thoughts and memories | Congnitive activites |
| A research method in which psychologist colect data by asking questions of people in a particular group | Survey |
| A statment that attemts to explain why things are the way they are and happen the way they do | Theory |
| Types of psychologist who focus on helping people with psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression | Clinical |
| Type of psycologist who deal with people who hace adjustment problems | Counseling |
| tYPE OF PSYCHOLOGYIST WHO ARE INVOLVED IN PREPARING STANDARDIZED TESTS | Educational |
| Type of psychologist who conducts research into basic processes, such as the functions of the nervous system or sensation and preception | Experimental |
| Type of psychologist who study the psychological effect of the enviroment on people's behaviot | Enviromental |
| psychologists who work within the criminal justice system | Forensic |
| Ancient Greek who believed that people could learn much about themselves through introspection | Socrates |
| Individual who established first psychology labratory in Leipzig, Germany | WILHELM WUNDT |
| School of psychology that is concerned with discovering the basic elements of conscious experience | Structuralism |
| School of psychology that forces on how mental preocesses help organisms adapt to their enviroment | Functionalism |
| Psychologist who believed that experience is fluid and continous "stream of conciouseness" | William James |
| School of psychology that mantain that organisms behave in certain ways because they are reinforced for doing so | Behaviorism |
| Psychologist who introduced the concept of reinforments | B.F. Skinnert |
| School of psychology that maintains that human behavior is determind by unconscious motives | Psychoanalysis |
| Perspective of psychology that stresses the importance of human consciousness, self-awarness, and the capacity to make choices | Humanistic |
| Perspective of psychology that emphasizes the influence of bilology on behavior | Biological |
| Perspective of psychology that stresses the influence of unconscious forces on human behavior | Psycholoanalytic |
| Perspective of psychology that emphasizes the effects of experience on behavior | Learning |
| Perspective of psychology that examines that effects of factors such as ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status on human behavior | Sociocultural |
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