Chapter 1 Psychology Terminology

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Across
  1. 4. scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research
  2. 7. _____Psychologist who studies biological, emotional, cognitive, and social changes that occur over a lifetime
  3. 8. Studies how people and animals adapt to their environment
  4. 9. scientist who studies the mind and behavior of humans and animals
  5. 11. studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior
  6. 14. Wundt First to use a systematic procedure to study human behavior
  7. 15. studies the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences
  8. 16. psychologist who may work in a mental health or social welfare agency
  9. 19. School that focuses on how we process, store, and retrieve information
  10. 22. psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment
  11. 23. Approach that studies how physical and chemical changes in our body influence our behavior
Down
  1. 1. understand human behavior by examining the rules of the social groups
  2. 2. Argued that perception is more than the sum of its parts - it involves a whole pattern
  3. 3. school that believes each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth
  4. 5. An educated guess about some phenomenon
  5. 6. psychologist who is concerned with helping students learn, instructional devices, teaching methods, etc
  6. 8. studied unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior
  7. 9. branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders and can prescribe medication
  8. 10. Taught the first class of psychology at Harvard; considered the "father of psychology"
  9. 12. A _____ Psychologist helps people with problems of everyday life
  10. 13. Having to do with an organism's physical processes
  11. 17. ____Psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances
  12. 18. complex explanation based on findings from a large number of experimental studies
  13. 20. All psychologists agree that their work must be ____
  14. 21. Believes that human nature is evolving and self directed
  15. 23. ____ is observable