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psych lesson 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Theory | A set of assumptions about why something is the way it is and happens the way it does. |
| Structuralism | The school of psychology, founded by Wilhelm Wundt, that maintains that conscious experience breaks down into objective sensations and sbjective feelings |
| survey | a research technique for acquiring dat about the attitudes or behaviors of a group of people, usually by asking questions of a representative, random sample |
| B. F. Skinner | Psychologist came up with radical behaviorism. |
| Learning | Perspective of psychology that emphasizes the effects of experience on behavior |
| Socrates | Ancient Greek who believed that people could learn much about themselves through introspection |
| Humanistic | perspective of psychology that strsses the importance of human consciousness |
| psychoanalysis | School of psychology that maintains that human behavior is determined by unconscious motives |
| Behaviorism | School of psychology that maintains that organisms behave in cetain ways because they are reinforced for doing so |
| psychology | the scientific study of behavior and mental process |
| functionalism | school o psychology that focuses on how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment |
| Biological | perspective of psychology that emphasizes the influence of biology on behavior |
| behavior | an action that people can observe or measure |
| Wilhelm Wundt | individual who established first psychology laboratory in leipzig, Germany |
| experimental | type of psychologists who conduct research into basic processesm such as the functions of the nervours system or sensation and peception. |
| clinical | type of psychologists who focus on helping people with psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression. |
| psychoanalytical | perspective of psychology that stresses the influence of unconscious forces on human behavior |
| couseling | type of psychologists who deal with people who have adjustment problems |
| educational | type of psychologists who are involved in preparing standardixed tests |
| Conitive activities | privat mental processes such as thoughts and memories |
| sociocultural | perspectiv of psychology that examines the effect of factors suh as ethicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status on human behavior |
| forensic | psychologist who work within the criminal justice system |
| environmental | type of psychologists who study the psychologival effects of the environment on people's behavior |
| William James | Psychologist who believed that experience is a flid and continuous stream of consciousness |
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