Chapter 1 - What is Psychology?

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Across
  1. 1. basic truth or law
  2. 6. mental processes including dreams perceptions thoughts and memories
  3. 9. stresses that human capacity for self fulfillment and the importance of consciousness self-awareness and the capacity to make choices
  4. 11. the scientific study of human behavior
  5. 15. focuses on the evolution of behavior and mental processes
  6. 16. Belief that psychology should be the scientific study of observable behavior
  7. 18. any action that people can observe or measure including walking, talking, eating, sleeping or drinking
  8. 19. field of psychology concerned with how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment
  9. 21. suggest that people can change their environments or create new ones
  10. 22. Sigmund Freud's school of thought that emphasized the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflict in determining and understanding human behavior
Down
  1. 2. stresses the influence of unconscious forces on human behavior
  2. 3. a medical Doctor Who specializes in the treatment of psychological problems and who can prescribe medication for clients
  3. 4. emphasizes the effects of experience on behavior
  4. 5. tools researchers use to learn more about human behavior
  5. 6. emphasizes the role that thoughts play in determining behavior
  6. 7. “looking within”
  7. 8. research that has no immediate application and is done for its own sake
  8. 10. Freud theory that assumed that most of what exists in an individual's mind is unconscious and consists of conflicting impulses, urges,
  9. 12. An alternative to behaviorism and structuralism developed by German psychologists
  10. 13. emphasizes the influence of biology on our behavior
  11. 14. Aristotle’s learning theory of how experiences remind us of similar experiences of the past
  12. 17. a statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are and why they happen the way they do
  13. 20. field of psychology concerned with discovering the basic elements of consciousness