Chapter 1 - What is Psychology?

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  1. 2. emphasizes the role that thoughts play in determining behavior
  2. 5. stresses that human capacity for self fulfillment and the importance of consciousness self-awareness and the capacity to make choices
  3. 7. research that has no immediate application and is done for its own sake
  4. 9. emphasizes the effects of experience on behavior
  5. 10. emphasizes the influence of biology on our behavior
  6. 13. suggest that people can change their environments or create new ones
  7. 16. tools researchers use to learn more about human behavior
  8. 17. stresses the influence of unconscious forces on human behavior
  9. 19. a medical Doctor Who specializes in the treatment of psychological problems and who can prescribe medication for clients
  10. 20. field of psychology concerned with discovering the basic elements of consciousness
  11. 21. field of psychology concerned with how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment
  12. 22. “looking within”
  13. 23. any action that people can observe or measure including walking, talking, eating, sleeping or drinking
  14. 24. Floyd's theory that assumed that most of what exists in an individual's mind is unconscious and consists of conflicting impulses, urges,
Down
  1. 1. study how the influences of ethnicity, gender, culture, and social-economic status have on behavior and mental processes
  2. 3. basic truth or law
  3. 4. Aristotle’s learning theory of how experiences remind us of similar experiences of the past
  4. 6. the scientific study of human behavior
  5. 8. Belief that psychology should be the scientific study of observable behavior
  6. 11. Sigmund Freud's school of thought that emphasized the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflict in determining and understanding human behavior
  7. 12. focuses on the evolution of behavior and mental processes
  8. 14. mental processes including dreams perceptions thoughts and memories
  9. 15. An alternative to behaviorism and structuralism developed by German psychologists
  10. 18. a statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are and why they happen the way they do