Psychology Ch1

3. What is the most important level of the Hierarchy of Needs.
5. Is a precise, testable statement of what the researchers predict will be the outcome of the study
6. Is a medical doctor (an M.D. or D.O.) who specializes in mental health, including substance use disorders.
7. focuses on the idea that all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment.
10. Refers largely to our genetics
11. Is that people are innately good and that mental and social problems result from deviations from this natural tendency.
12. Refers to all of the external or environmental factors that affect human development
15. A method of learning that uses rewards and punishment to modify behavior.
16. Is a school of thought in psychology that attempts to understand human consciousness by examining its underlying components. By identifying the basic and rudimentary components and examining how they operate together, it is possible to understand human behavior.

1. Is the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes.
2. A person who specializes in the study of mind and behavior or in the treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders
3. The baby behind John Watson's famous 1920 emotional conditioning experiment at Johns Hopkins University,
4. The state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings
8. An operant conditioning chamber is a laboratory apparatus used to study animal behavior.
9. Is an approach that emphasizes the functions of the mind over its structures and focused on how aspects of consciousness allowed human beings to adapt to their environments.
13. Classical conditioning, the foundation of his theory, involves pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response.
14. Founding father of psychology
17. Created the Hierarchy of Needs