Chapter 1 Flashcards
Psychology
The scientific study of mind and behaviour
Philosophical Dualism
The view that mind and body are fundamentally different things
Philosophical Materialism
The view that all mental phenomena are reducible to physical phenomena
Philosophical Realism
The view that our perceptions of the physical world are a faithful copy of information from the world that enters out brains through our sensory apparatus
Philosophical Idealism
The view that our perceptions of the physical world are our brains best interpretation of the information that enters through our sensory apparatus
Philosophical Empiricism
The view that all knowledge is acquired through experience
Philosophical Nativism
The view that some knowledge is innate rather than acquired
Reaction Time
The amount of time between the onset of a stimulus and a persons response to that stimulus
Structurlism
An approach to psychology that attempted to isolate and analyze the minds basic elements
INtrospection
The analysis of subjective experience by trained observers
Functionalism
An approach to psychology that emphasized the adaptive significance of mental processes
NAtural Selection
The process by which the specific attributes that promote an organisms survival and reproduction become more prevalent in the population over time
Hysteria
A loss of function that has no obvious physical origin
Unconscious
The part of the mind that contains information of which people are not aware
Psychoanalytic Theory
A general theory that emphasizes the influence of the unconscious on feelings, thoughts and behaviours
