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Psych Ch 1 UMW
words for test in psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pop psychology | found on the web, television and in thousands of self-help books |
| psychology | discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they’re affected by an organism’s physical state, mental state, and external env’t |
| Empirical evidence | gathered by careful observation, experimentation, and measurement |
| Critical thinkers | have ability and willingness to assess claims and make objective judgments based on well-supported reasons & evidence rather than emotion and anecdote |
| Phrenology | popular in US & Europe in 1800s, judged bumps on your heads, different brain areas account for specific characteristics & personality traits |
| Intellectual parents | Aristotle, Zoroaster, and Hippocrates |
| First psych lab established | in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany, founded by Wilhelm Wundt |
| Structuralism | analyzed sensations, images & feelings into basic elements, based on introspection, basic elements of our mind |
| Functionalism | emphasized function or purpose of behavior, as opposed to its analysis and description, inspired by Charles Darwin |
| Behaviorism | what people do and why they do it, stemmed from functionalism, famous one B.F. skinner |
| Cognitive perspective | emphasizes what goes on in heads, how thoughts explain actions |
| Sociocultural perspective | social &cultural forces outside individuals, how groups affect attitudes & behavior |
| Psychodynamic | unconscious dynamics within people , archeologists of the mind |
| Feminist psychology | analyzes influence of social inequities on gender relations & behavior of 2 sexes, many studies only of white males, began studies on motherhood and menstruation |
| Psychologists | teach and do research, provide health and mental health services, conduct research or apply findings |
| Psychotherapist | anyone who does any kind of psychotherapy |
| Psychoanalyst | practices one particular form of therapy, psychoanalysis |
| Psychiatrist | medical doctor and has learned to diagnose and treat mental disorders, can give medicine |
| Therapist | someone who has had a certification course |
| Jobs of psychs | advise companies on how to entice customers, consult companies to improver workers satisfaction, establish programs to improve race relations, suicide prevention |
| Operational definition | precise definition of a term in a hypothesis |
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