Across
- 5. A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders.
- 6. A school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function-how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.
- 7. An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis.
- 9. A historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth.
- 11. An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind.
- 12. The study of behavior and mental processes.
- 13. The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection.
- 14. The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Behavior should be observable and quantifiable(countable).
Down
- 1. 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.
- 2. The scientific study of the links between biological (genetic, neural, hormonal) and psychological processes.
- 3. The study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking.
- 4. The differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon.
- 8. The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition(including perception, thinking, memory, and language).
- 10. The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.