Psychology Chapter 1

4. a basic truth or law
5. the school of psychology founded by Sigmund Freud, that emphasized the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts as determinants of human behavior
7. the school of psychology, founded by Wilhelm Wundt that maintains that conscious experience breaks down into objective sensations and feelings
8. the school of psychology, founded by John Watson, that defines psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior
10. the theory that most of what exists in an individual’s mind is unconscious and consists of conflicting impulses, urges, and wishes
11. the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes
13. something you cannot see, touch, or measure directly
14. a medical doctor who specializes in the treatment of psychological problems and who can prescribe medicine
15. mental processes
16. the school of psychology that emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions of individual parts into meaningful words
17. research that has no immediate application and is done for its own sake
18. the psychological view that stresses the human capacity for self-fulfillment and the importance of conscious self-awareness, and the freedom to make choices
19. the perspective that emphasizes the role of thought processes in determining behavior

1. the school of psychology founded by William Jones, that emphasizes the purpose of behavior and mental processes and what they accomplish for the individual
2. any action that people can observe or measure
3. the theory that our understanding of the world occurs through ideas associated with similar sensory experiences and perceptions
6. the psychological perspective that emphasizes the influence of biology on behavior
9. examination of one’s own thoughts and feelings
12. the theory that focuses on the evolution of behavior and mental processes
20. a statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are and why they happen the way they do