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History and Approach
Psychology Myers Prologue
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Empiricism | The view that knowledge comes from experience via the senses and science flourishes through observation and experiment |
| Structuralism | an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind. |
| Functionalism | a school of psychology that focued on how mental and behavioral processes function-how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. |
| Psychology | The science of behavior and mental processes. |
| Nature-nurture issue | The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experiences make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. |
| Natural Selection | The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contibuting to reproductionand survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations. |
| Basic Research | Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base. |
| Applied Research | Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems. |
| Clinical Psychology | a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders. |
| Psychiatry | a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy. |