Unit 1 Psychology's history and approaches
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 structuralism | an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of a human mind |
| introspection | looking inward |
| behavior | is anything an organism does that can be observed and recorded |
| psychology | the science of behavior and mental processes |
| functionalism | a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes funtion-- how they enable us to adapt, survive ,and flouish |
| evolutionary psycology | the study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of naural selection |
| social psychologists | exploring how we view and affect one another |
| natural selection | nature selects the traits that best enable an organism to survive annd reproduce in paticularenviroment |
| empirlism | the view that knowledge originates in experience that science should, therefore,rely on observation and experimentation |
| psychometrics | the scientific study of measurement of human abilities , attitudes, and traits |
| developmental psychologists | studying our changing abilities from womb to tomb |
| psychiatrists | a branch of medicine dealing with psychological; practiced by phyicians who often give drugs |
| psychodynamic psychology | a branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts infuence behavior uses that info to treat people with psyhological disorders |
| counseling psychologists | a brance of psychology that asssisst people with problems i n living and archeving greater well being |
| industrial organizational psychologists | the apllication of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces |
| basic research | pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
| human factors psychologists | a branch of psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how many machines and physical enviroments can be made safe and easy to use |
| applied research | scientific study that aims to solve practical problems |
| cognitive | the scientific study of all the mental activites associates with thinking, knowing,remembering and commnicating |
| biological psychologists | exploring the links b/w brain and mind |
| biopsychsocial approach | biological, psychological , and scoial cultural levels and analysis |
| cognitive psychologists | experimenting with how we perceive think and solve problems |
| behaviorism | the scientific study of observable behavior |
| biological | a brance of psychology concerned with the links b/w biology anf behavior |
| behavioral psychology | the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation of principles of learning |
| experimental psycologists | who explore and thinking with experiments |
| mental processes | are the internal subjective expereinces we infer from behavior - sensations , perceptions, dreams, thought , beliefs and feelings |
| nature nurture issue | someone innate qualities vs. personal expriences |
| clinical psychologists | a branch of psychology that studies, assesses and treat people with psycological disorders. |
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