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Science of Psych1
Defining and Exploring
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. | Psychology |
| The use of systematic methods to observe the natural world, including human behavior, and to draw conclusions. | Science |
| The thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experiences PRIVATELY but that CANNOT be observed directly. eg. thoughts about kissing. | Mental Processes |
| Everything we do that can be directly observed. eg. kissing | Behavior |
| The process of thinking deeply and actively, asking questions and evalutating the evidence. | Critical Thinking |
| Scientists are | Critical thinkers, curious, skeptical, and objective. |
| Is it a higher or lower rate of marital sucess for couples who marry BEFORE living together. | Higher |
| Gaining knowledge through observation of events and logical reasoning. | Emperical Method |
| seeing things as they really are...what evidence tells us and not just a hunch | Objectivity/ Being objective |
| Questioning something | Skepitcism |
| a condition of intense unhealthy self-love | Narcissism |
| Psychologist always agree with one another: True/False | False: psychology fosters controversies, examining evidence on all sides, eg. different theories. |
| Psychlogist who specialize in studying and treating psychological disorders. | Clinical psychologist |
| Which psychologist believed most of human behavior is based on unconscious desires? | Sigmund Freud |
| 34% of psycholgist work in what kind of setting? | academic setting eg. colleges and universities |
| Private and Clinical make up which percent of working in mental health? | makes up half of the total settings. Clinical 24% Private 22% |
| Psychology seeks to understand the truths of human life in ALL dimensions. True/False | True- including people's best and worst experiences. |
| Who founded the first psychology laboratory in 1879 at the Universtiy of Leipzig in Germany? | Wilhelm Wundt |
| The rational investigation of the underlying principle of being and knowledge. | Philosophy |
| Name three Western Philosophers who debated thought and behavior and the possible link between mind and body? | Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle |
| Which philosopher argued that the mind and body were separate and mostly focused on the mind? | Rene Descartes |
| Psychology grew from philosophy and what natural sciences? | Biology and physiology |
| William Wundt's approach to discovering the basic elements, or structures,of mental processes. | Structuralism |
| William James' approach to mental processes, emphasizing the functions and purposesof the mindand behavior in the individual's adaptation to the environment. | Functionalism |
| Darwin's principle of an evolutionary process in which organisms that are best adapted to their environment will survive and produce offspring | natural selection |
| According to which theory do species change through random genetic mutation (characteristics that make them different from other members in order to survive? | evolutionary theory |
| James called the natural flow of thought | Stream of consciousness |
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