Pages 1-7 Intorudction Vocab Flashcards
Psychology
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Empiricism
The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should therefore rely on observation and experimentation
Structuralism
And early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind (titchener)
Functionalist
A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function, how do you enable us to adapt, survive and flourish (James)
Human psychology
Hey softer 1960s response to Freudian psychology and two behaviorism, which Carl Rogers and Abraham Oslo found was two mechanic. They both emphasize the importance of current environmental influences on our growth potential, and the importance of meeting our needs for love and acceptance
Nature nurture issue
The long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that jeans and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture.
Natural selection
Principle that among the range of inherited trait variations those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations
Level of analysis
Differing complementary views from biological to psychological to social cultural for analyzing any given phenomenon
Biopsychological approach
Integrated approach that incorporates biological psychological and social cultural levels of analysis
Basic research
Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base
Applied research
Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems
Counseling psychology
A branch of psychology that assist people with problems in living often related to school work or marriage and in achieving greater well-being
Psychiatry
A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders practice by physicians who often provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy
Charles Darwin
Publish the expression of the emotions in man and animals in with you are you that you humans and even other animal show emotions from remarkably similar behaviors
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist to originated psychoanalysis
William James
Founder of functionalism study of how humans he’s perception to function in our environment
Abraham Maslow
Human psychologist who proposed the hierarchy of needs with self actualization as the ultimate psychological need
Margaret FOIA Washburn
American psychologist who study the animal behavior the first woman to receive a PhD in psychology
John B Watson
American psychologist who founded behaviorism emphasizing the study of observable behavior and rejecting the study of mental processes
William Wundt
German geologist you found a psychology as a formal science opened first psychology research laboratory in 1879
