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Psychology
Chapter 1 exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| psychologist who studied the effect of segregation on children | kenneth b. clark |
| mental process, such as a dream or memory | cognitive activity |
| school of psychology that looks at the basic elements of conscious experience | structuralism |
| contemporary psychological approach that emphasizes study of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status | sociocultural perspective |
| philosopher who stressed the importance of introspection | socrates |
| founded structuralism | wilhelm wundt |
| school of psychology that describes experience as a whole rather than broken down into parts | gestalt psychology |
| action that can be observed or measured | behavior |
| wrote the first modern psychology textbook | william james |
| psychology is defined as the | scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
| the main goals of psychology are to | observe, describe, explain, predict and control behavior |