Into to Psychology

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Across
  1. 6. ___________ approach: an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis.
  2. 9. the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2).
  3. 10. _________ psychology: the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
  4. 11. ___________ psychology: the study of the evolution of behavior and mind, using principles of natural selection.
  5. 12. ________ psychology: the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning.
  6. 13. early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind.
  7. 14. _________ psychology: the scientific study of the links between biological (genetic, neural, hormonal) and psychological processes.
  8. 15. __________ psychology: a historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people.
Down
  1. 1. the science of behavior and mental processes.
  2. 2. the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation.
  3. 3. __________ psychology: the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method.
  4. 4. _________ psychology: a branch of psychology that studies how people interact with their social environments and how social institutions affect individuals and groups.
  5. 5. ___________ issue: the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today’s science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture.
  6. 7. ________ selection: the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.
  7. 8. early school of thought promoted by James and influenced by Darwin; explored how mental and behavioral processes function—how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.