Ch 1 - Vocab Flashcards
Psychology
The systematic study of behavior and experience.
Determinism
The idea that everything that happens has a cause, or determinant, that one could observe or measure.
Free will
The belief that behavior is caused by a person’s independent decisions.
Mind-Brain problem
The philosophical question of how experience relates to the brain.
Dualism
Holds that the mind is separate from the brain but somehow controls the brain and therefore the rest of the body.
Monism
The view that conscious experience is inseparable from the physical brain.
Nature-nurture issue
How do differences in behavior relate to differences in heredity and environment?
Psychiatry
A branch of medicine that deals with emotional disturbances.
Counseling psychologists
Help people with educational, vocational, marriage, health-related, and other decisions.
Cross-cultural psychology
compares the behavior of people from different cultures.
Wilhelm Wundt
A physician and sensory researcher who set up the first psychology laboratory.
Strucuralism
an attempt to describe the structures that compose the mind
William James
Was the founder of American psychology.
Functionalism
Learning how people produce useful behaviors.
Behaviorism
A field of psychology that concentrates on observable, measurable behaviors and not on mental processes.
