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Psychology
Chapter 1 exam
Question | Answer |
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psychologist who studied the effect of segregation on children | kenneth b. clark |
mental process, such as a dream or memory | cognitive activity |
school of psychology that looks at the basic elements of conscious experience | structuralism |
contemporary psychological approach that emphasizes study of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status | sociocultural perspective |
philosopher who stressed the importance of introspection | socrates |
founded structuralism | wilhelm wundt |
school of psychology that describes experience as a whole rather than broken down into parts | gestalt psychology |
action that can be observed or measured | behavior |
wrote the first modern psychology textbook | william james |
psychology is defined as the | scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
the main goals of psychology are to | observe, describe, explain, predict and control behavior |