Psych: Chapter 1 Key Terms
Across
- 2. The school of psychology, founded by William James, that emphasizes the purposes of behavior and mental processes
- 4. The school of psychology, founded by Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior
- 8. The scientific study of behavior and mental process
- 9. A set of assumptions about why something is the way it is and happens the way it does
- 12. Perspective In psychology, the perspective that focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in personality formation, behavior, and mental processes
- 14. Perspective The psychological view that assumes the existence of the self and emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and the freedom to make choices
- 16. An examination of one's own thoughts and feelings
- 18. Activities Private, unobservable mental processes such as sensation, perception, thought, and problem solving
- 19. Perspective The theory focusing on the evolution of behavior and mental processes
- 20. Psychology The school of psychology that emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into meaningful wholes
- 21. Perspective The viewpoint that emphasize the role of thought processes in determining behavior
Down
- 1. Theory The theory that suggests that people have the ability to change their environments or create new ones
- 3. Thinking The theory that most of what fills an individuals mind is unconscious and consists of conflicting impulses, urges, and wishes
- 5. A learned connection between two ideas or events
- 6. Perspective The psychological perspective that emphasizes the influence of biology on behavior
- 7. Constructs Theoretical entities, or concepts, that enable one to discuss something that cannot be seen, touched, or measured directly
- 8. Perspective The perspective that stresses the influences of unconscious forces on human behavior
- 10. Group A group united by cultural heritage, race, language, or common history
- 11. The school of psychology, founded by Wilhelm Wundt, that maintains that conscious experience breaks down into objective sensations and subjective feelings
- 13. Perspective The psychological point of view that emphasizes the effects of experience on behavior
- 15. The school of psychology, founded by John Watson, that defines psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior
- 17. Observable and measurable actions of people and animals