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1Psychology and Life
Psychology Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Behavior | the means by which organisms adjust to their environment. |
| Psychology | the scientific study of the behavior of individuals and their mental processes, (scientific behavior, individual, mental) |
| Behavioral data | reports of observaions about the behavior of organisms and the conditions under which the behavior occurs. |
| Hermann Ebbinghaus (1908/1973) | "psychology has a long past, but only a short history" One of the first experimental scientists. |
| Wilhelm Wundt (1879) | Germany. Founded the first formal laboratory devoted to experimental psychology. |
| Edward Titchener (1892) | Founded Cornell University's laboratory. First in the US. |
| William James (1890/1950) | Wrote "Principles of Psychology", one of the most important psychology texts. |
| Structuralism | the study of the structure of the mind and behavior, based on the presumption that all human mental experinece could be understood as the comination of basic components. |
| Max Wertheimer | focused on gestalts-organized wholes- rather than the sums of different parts. Impacts the study of perception |
| Functionalism | gave primary importance to learned habits that enable organisms to adapt to their environment and to function effectively. John Dewey, founder of the school of functionalism. |
| Psychodynamic Perspective | behavior is driven, or motivated by powerful inner forces. Human actions stem from inherited instincts, biological drives and attempts to resolve conflicts between personal needs and society's demands. |
| Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | psychodynamic theory, that a person is pushed and pulled by a complex network of inner and outer forces. Human nature is not always rational, may be driven by the subconscious. |
| Behaviorist Perspective | seek to understand how particular enviornmental stimuli control particular kinds of behavior. They analyze the antecedent, look at the behavioral response, then study the consequences. John Watson, BF Skinner. |
| Humanistic Perspective | people are neither driven by powerful instinctive forces, nor manipulated by their environments. Carl Rogers, Abraham Manslow |
| Cognitive Perspective | human thought and all the processes of knowing- attending, thinking, remembering and understanding. People act because they think. |
| Biological Perspective | causes of behavior in the functioning of genes, the brain, and the nervous system, as well as the endocrine system. |
| Evolutionary Perspective | Connects contemporary psychology to a central idea of natural selection. |
| Sociocultural Perspective | study of cross-cultural differences in the causes and consequences of behavior. |
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