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Definitions and explanations for key terms and concepts in the field of psychology, including behavior, mental processes, psychologist roles, psychology's levels of analysis, and various sub-fields such as neuroscience, evolutionary psych, behavioral genetics, and psychodynamic. It also covers the historical roots of psychology in philosophy, physiology, and medicine, and influential figures like wilhelm wundt, edward titchener, sigmund freud, john b. Watson, and b.f. Skinner.
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Science of behavior and mental processes TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 Anything that an oranism does that can be observed or recorded TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Perceptions, dreams, thoughts, pain, etcs (infer by observation) TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Person with specialized graduate training that can: - Research- (basic-not specific (IE neuron study); applied- designed to solve a specific problem. -Teach -Consult TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Biological Influence Psychological Influence Social Culural Influence
Incorporating a variety of factors when solving a problem TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 How the body and brain make emotions, sensory expereinces, etcs TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 How genes vs environment influence individual differences (Nature vs Nurture, i.e. twins) TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 How behavior is related to unconvious drives and conflicts. Focus is on aggression and sexual impulses (i.e. blocking out traumatic events)
Philosophy (question: can people be molded from birth?) Greek philosophers: Descartes: looking @ body and mind as seperate (dualism). Believed body was subject to physical alaws and rulese that are predictable, while the mind is unpredictable and spiritual, therefore, the mind is unable to be studied TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 Body and mind are one TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 -Helmholtz (1821-1891)- Studied sensory receptors (eyes and cars). Known for a theory of color vision -Fechner (1801-
DEFINITION 19 -Kraepelin (1856-1926)- Physician who stated there are physical problems that cause mental disorders. Developed the very first system for clayssifying mental disorders - Charcot (1825-1893)-Physician who started to treat certain phyhsical ailments with hyponoses. People wondered of connection between physical problems and mental disorders TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 German philospher and physiologist Established first physchology labratory in Leipzig, German in ****1979**** - 1st modern physchological experiments
Wundt's student Introspection (interviewing)-used to study attention span, reaction time, time perception, memory (Problems: people need to be smart and verbal; some are not capable due to alzheimers or poor vocabulary) TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 Focused on elements (structure) of the mind -used introspection TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 Focused on how behavioral processes help organisms adapt TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 Functionalist Published "Principles of Psychology" 1890 Taught 1st psych course at Harvard TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 Austrian Neurologist Believed sexual and aggressive impulses were teh source of human problems Focused moslty on clinical practice Introduced psychoanalysis (1900) in "The Interpretation of Dreams," designed to make unconcious impulses concious.