| Term | Definition |
|---|
| psychology | the scientific study of human and animal behavior |
| theory | a general framework for scientific study, allows us to make predictions, smaller parts of this can be tested |
| research psychologists | psychologists who apply their skills to discovering and testing theories about behavior |
| applied psychologists | psychologists who make direct use of other psychologists findings and deal directly with clients |
| psychiatrist | a psychologist (M.D.) who has undergone medical school training and can prescribe medicine |
| Darwin (Charles) | he was important to psychology because his theories showed that we could learn about human behavior by studying animals |
| Wundt (Wilhelm) | developed the first laboratory dedicated to the psychological study of humans, father of psychology |
| introspection | psychological measurement technique, looking into yourself and describing your sensations and feelings |
| James (William) | famous early American psychologist known for his emphasis on studying humans as "wholes" not looking at one aspect of them alone |
| Watson (John) | the first behaviorist, he studied the effects of learning on behavior |
| eclecticism | the process of making your own theory by borrowing parts from two or more other theories |
| neurobiological approach (biological approach) | approach to psychology that views behavior as the result of nervous system functions and physiological processes |
| behavioral approach | perspective on psychology that ses behavior as the product of learning and associations, studies only overt behaviors |
| Skinner (B.F.) | famous behaviorist who studied operant conditioning and discounted free will |
| humanistic approach | approach to psychology that sees humans as basically good and striving to reach their ideal self |
| cognitive approach | approach to psychology that emphasizes our thought processes and how we uniquely perceive the world and how this affects our personality |
| sociocultural approach | newer approach to psychology that believes behaviors are primarily developed by the different groups we belong to and how the create our personality |
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