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Psychology Terms
Psychology Flash Cards
Term | Definition |
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Psychology | The Science of Behavior and Mental processes |
Monism | Seeing Mind and Body as Different Aspects of the Same Thing |
Dualism | Seeing Mind and Body as Two Different Things That Interact |
Nature-Nurture Controversy | The Extent to Which Behavior Results From Heredity or Experience |
Plato and Descartes | Believed that Behavior is Inborn (Nature) |
Aristotle, Locke, and Skinner | Believed that Behavior Results from Experience (Nurture) |
School of Structuralism | Early psychological perspective that emphasized units of consciousness and identification of elements of thought using introspection |
Wilhelm Wundt | Founder of Scientific Psychology in Leipzig, Germany; studied consciousness using introspection |
G. Stanley Hall | Brought introspection to his lab at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S.; First President of the American Psychological Association |
Edward Titchener | Studied elements of consciousness at his Cornell University Lab |
Margaret Floy Washburn | First Woman President of the American Psychological Association |
School of Functionalism |