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Intro Psych-Chpt 1
Introduction to psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychology | science of behavior and mental processes |
| Behavior | a person's overt actions that others can directly observe directly observable and measurable actions |
| Mental Processes | private psychological activities that include thinking, perceiving, and feeling. |
| Science | approach to knowledge based on systematic observation |
| What are the goals of Psychology? | Describe (DUPI) Predict Understand Influence |
| Theories | tentative explanations of facts and relationships sciences |
| Who was the greek philosopher who wrote about psyche & first broadly defined the subject matter? | Aristotle |
| What was Wundt & Titchener's viewpoint called? | Structuralism |
| What is introspection? | method of looking inwardly at one's own conscious experiences. |
| What is structuralism? | 19th century school of psychology that sought to determine the structure of the mind through controlled introspection. |
| Who established first laboratory of psychology? | Wilhelm Wundt |