Chapter 1 : The Science Of Psychology Flashcards
What Is Psychology?
The science of human behavior.
What are the 4 Major Research Perspectives?
- Biological
- Cognitive
- Behavioral
- Sociocultural
The perspectives are what meaning that they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle to give us more of a complete picture?
Complementary
No _________ is better than the others.
Perspective
A research perspective whose major explanatory focus is how the brain, nervous system, and other physiological mechanisms produce behavior and mental processes.
Biological Perspective
A research perspective whose major explanatory focus is how mental processes, such as percetpti0on, memory, and problem solving, work and impact behavior.
Cognitive Perspective.
The Biological and the Cognitive perspectives focus on _____________.
Internal Factors.
The brain and the nervous system are considered what? As to our mental processes, such as perception, memory, and problem solving is known as our what?
Hardware/Software
The software is a major part of our ___________ hardware.
Physiological
Look for causes within our physiology, our genetics and human evolution:
Biological Scientists
Biological scientists argue that our ________ are functions of our underlying biology.
thoughts
Biological scientists would treat depression with some sort of pill because the _________ ________ in the brain would have to be rectified.
Chemical Deficiency
An example of how complementary the perspectives can be biological scientists would assume help from another source because nonbiological factors like unhealthy thinking patterns, learned helplessness, and disturbing life circumstances were also _______.
causes of produced behavior.
In addition to brain chemistry, biological psychologists also study:
the involvement of the various parts of the brain and nervous system in our behavior and mental processes.
They study all aspects of cognitive processing, from perception to the higher-0level processes, such as problem solving and reasoning.
Cognitive Psychologivsts
