Chapter 1: Welcome To Psychology Flashcards
Developmental Perspective
The psychological perspective that studies how people change physically, cognitively, socially, and emotionally as they age.
Biological-neuroscience Perspective
The psychological perspective that seeks to understand the biological underpinnings of how humans think, act, and behave.
Cognitive Perspective
The psychological perspective that studies the mental process that underlie perception, thought, learning memory, language, and creativity.
Evolutionary Perspective
The psychological perspective on behaviour that seeks to identify how humans evolutionary past shapes certain cultural universals that all human beings share, such as the preference for fairness.
Cultural Perspective
The psychological perspective that seeks to understand how cultural context affects people’s thoughts and preferences.
Culture
The rules, values, customs, and beliefs that exist within a group of people who share a common language and environment; culture passes from generation to generation as children learn it from their parents, caregivers, and the larger society.
Scientific approach
Equates psychology with experimental studies or perception, thought, and behaviour.
Clinical approach
Equates psychology with psychotherapy, psychiatry, and clinical practice.
Psychology
The scientific study of mind and behaviour.
Personality perspective
The psychological perspective that seeks to understand aspects of human behaviour that are relatively stable over time and situation.
Social Psychological Perspective
The psychological perspective that studies the ways in which immediate social contexts influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, independent of personality .
Emotional Perspective
The psychological perspective that seeks to understand how the human capacity to feel, express, and perceive emotions plays an important role in decision making, behaviour, and social relationships.
Clinical Perspective
The psychological perspective that focuses on the causes and treatment of psychological disorders, with the goal of improving human well-being, daily functioning, and social relationships.
Growth Mindset
The belief that human personality and behaviour can be changed.
Homeopathy
The treatment of diseases, such as asthma, cancer and dementia, by tiny doses of natural substances (e.g., poison ivy and arsenic) that in a healthy person would produce symptoms of the disease.
