Functionalism

4. The first scientist to conduct large-scale experimental investigations on animal psychology. He also advocated a law of parsimony to combat the prevalent ability to credit high intelligence to animals.
5. William James believed that consciousness was a constantly evolving process and that any attempt to break it down into its component parts would cause distortions.
6. Robert Woodworth's psychological theory that focused on how motivations and cause and effect elements affect emotions and behavior.
7. The belief that a concept's success is determined by how it will actually affect people's lives
8. philosophy - Herbert Spencer's theory that uses evolutionary principles to explain knowledge and experience
9. Also called Lloyd Morgan’s canon. The notion that animal behavior must not be attributed to a higher mental process when it can be explained in terms of a lower mental process
11. The use of observational reports about animal behavior
12. A British physiologist who organized and systematized the study of animal intelligence.

1. A theoretical viewpoint that aims to comprehend the function of mental processes and behaviors
2. A technique for studying animal behavior by assuming that the same mental processes that occur in the observer’s mind also occur in the animal’s mind
3. The relationship between motor reactions and sensory inputs
10. Tests of motor skills and sensory capacities; intelligence tests use more complex measures of mental abilities