UNIT #1 : Curricular Focus And Vocabulary Flashcards
Empiricism
The view that knowledge originated in experience and that science should,therefore rely on observation and experimentation
Structuralism
It was a early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener which used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind
Functionalism
It was the early school of thought promoted by James and influence by Darwin which explored how mental and behavioural processes function and how they enable humans and organisms to adapt, flourish and survive
Experimental psychology
The study of behaviour and thinking using the experimental method
Behaviourism
The view that psychology
1. Should be an objective science that..
2. Studies behaviour without reference to the mental process.
(Most researchers agree with #1 but not #2)
Psychology
The science of behaviour and mental process
Humanistic
How we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment
Cognitive
How we encode, process and store information
Nature-nurture (issue)
The long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviours. Today’s science sees traits and behaviours arising from the interaction of nature and nurture
Natural selection
The principle among the range of inherited traits variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations
Levels of analysis
The differing complementary views from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon
Biopsychosocial (approach)
An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological and social-cultural levels of analysis
Behavioural
How we learn observable responses
Biological
How the body and brain enable emotions, memories and sensory experiences and how genes combine with environment to influence individual differences
Evolutionary
How the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival of genes
