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Psychology - CH 1 Matching
Functionalism
Approach to psychology that focused on the purposes of consciousness
Descriptive statistics
Procedures used to summarize any set of data
Consumer psychology
Specialty of psychology that studies consumers and the choices they make
Introspection
Structural psychologists' major method, in which participants reported the contents of their conscious experience
Experimental method
Research method that involves manipulating independent variables to determine how they affect dependent variables
Health psychology
Subfield of psychology that is concerned with how psychological and social variables affect health and illness
Structuralism
Earliest approach in modern psychology, founded by Wilhelm Wundt; its goal was to analyze the basic elements of conscious experience
Measures of central tendency
Descriptive measures of a set of data that tell us about a typical score
Humanistic perspective
Approach to psychology associated with Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers; emphasizes free will and individuals' control of their own behavior
Qualitative research
A holistic research method that seeks to provide a complete narrative description of an entire phenomenon or culture
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