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Intro Psychology
Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The scientific study of behavior and mental processess. | Psychology |
| An action that other people can observe or measure | Behavior |
| Mental processes that include thoughts, dreams, perceptions, and memories. | Cognitive activities |
| A statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are and why they happen the way they do. | Theory |
| Theoretical entities or concepts that enable one to discuss something that cannot be seen, touched or measured directly | Psychological Construct |
| Reearch conducted for its own sake without seeking a solution to a specifice problem | Basic Research |
| An examination of one's own thoughts and feelings | Introspection |
| A learned connection between two ideas or events. | Associationism |
| The school of psychology founded by Wundt that maintains that conscious experience breaks down into objective sebsations and objective feelings. | Structuralism |
| The school of psychology founded by William James that emphasizes the purposes of behaviors and mental processes. | Functionalism |
| the school of psychology founded by John B. Watson that defines psychology as the scientifice study of observable behavior. | Behaviorism |
| The school of psychology that emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into meaningful wholes. | Gestalt Psychology |
| The school of psychology founded by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior. | Psychoanalysis |
| The perspective that focuses on unconscious forces on human behavior. | Psychodynamic |
| The perspective that emphasizes the influence of the physical body including the brain and nervous system on behavior | Biological |
| the perspective that on how behavior emerges as adaptation to help organisms survive in their environment. | Evolutionary |
| The perspective that thoughts and other mental processes affect behavior. | Cognitive |
| the perspective that behavior is an expression of one's unique beliefs, perceptions and innate tendency to grow. | Humanistic |
| The theory that people learn behavior by observing and imitating others. | Social Learning Theory |
| The perspective behavior is environmentally learned. | Learning (Behavioral) |
| The perspective that focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in personality formation, behavior and mental processes. | Sociocultural |
| A group united by cultural heritage, race, language or common history. | Ethnic Group |
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