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Term | Definition |
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Functionalism | Focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function, influences how they allow us to adapt, survive, and flourish. Used to understand how mentality helps adaptation and achieving goals. EX: Creativity allows innovative solutions to problems |
Structuralism | Uses introspection to explore elemental structures of the human mind. Breaks down mental processes to study how the components combine to form psychological phenomenas. EX: Describing time at the beach by saying it's windy, cold, but rejuvenating. |
Empiricism | The view that knowledge comes from experience and because of that, science should rely on observations and experiments. EX: If you got burned by a hot surface and now know not to touch a hot stove because your experience touching one was harmful |
Introspection | Examination of someone's own thoughts and feelings. A technique that deals with in depth examination and description of a conscious. Can be done on yourself to report your own thoughts and feelings as self evaluation. EX: Journaling, meditating |