Psych Sem 1 Final Study CH 1 Flashcards
what did John B Watson and BF Skinner insist that psychology must be
The scientific study of observational behavior
behaviorism is the view that…(2 thing)
- should be an objective science
2. Studies behavior without reference to mental processes
today’s contemporary psychologists viewpoint is that psychology is defined as the science of what and what?
behaviors and mental processes
what is the psychological study of how the body and brain and enables motion memories and sensory experiences
neuroscience
what is the psychological terms of how the natural selection of traits has down as promoted the survival of jeans
evolutionary
what is the psychological study of how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts. Who was the founder?
Sigmund Freud
what is the psychological study of how we learn observable responses. Who founded this type of psychology?
John B. Watson
BF Skinner
what type of psychology explains how we encode process store and retrieve information
cognitive
what type of psychology explores how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
social cultural
what type of psychology emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and who founded this
humanistic. Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
what type of psychology is the study of human functioning with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities thrive. Who founded it
positive. Mark Seligman
what is the bio psycho social approach
and approach that combines news from biology psychology and social viewpoints
later versus nurture approach is debated regarding what?
The relative influence of jeans versus the influence of the environment raised in
what is thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions
critical thinking
what is a customer prediction, often implied by A theory
hypothesis
what is a statement describing the exact procedures used in a research study
operational definition
what is a simultaneous processing of information above a conscious and unconscious level
dual processing
what is it when every individual in a large population has a small but equal chance of being included in the survey
Random sample
what is a tendency to believe after learning outcome, that we couldn’t have predicted it
hindsight bias
what is a statistical measure of the relationship between two variables, a math expression of the relationship
correlation coefficient
name the five steps of the SQ3R method
skim. Question. Read. Retrieve. Review
Who were the two early pioneers of psychology (from the 1920’s)
John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner
