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Chapter 1~ Psychology's History and Approaches

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Empiricism   the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation  
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Structuralism   early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind  
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Experimental Psychology   the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method  
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Social-Cultural Psychology   the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking  
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Psychometrics   the scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits  
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Functionalism   school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function- how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish  
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Levels of Analysis   the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon  
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Psychiatry   branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who often provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy  
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Socrates and Plato   Grecian philosophers who concluded that the mind is separable from the body and continues after the body dies, and that knowledge is innate- born within us  
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Edward Titchener   creator of structuralism and the idea of introspection  
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Aristotle   student of Plato who stated that knowledge is NOT preexisting; instead it grows from the experiences stored in our memories  
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Rene Descartes   agreed that knowledge is innate and is able to survive death; concluded that the fluid in the brain's cavities contained "animal spirits" which flowed from the brain, through the nerves, to the muscles, provoking movement  
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Wilhelm Wundt   German professor who aimed to measure the fastest and simplest mental processes, starting psychology's first experiment and opening the first labratory  
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William James   philosopher who used Darwin's principles of natural selection to create functionalism; thinking developed because it was adaptive  
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