Introduction to Psychology

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  1. 2. a psychologist who is concerned with helping students learn.
  2. 4. used free association and dream analysis
  3. 5. studies with a goal of finding out more about human behavior
  4. 10. psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances.
  5. 11. study of the shape and protuberances of the skull
  6. 13. group of German psychologists who argued perception is more than the sum of its parts
  7. 14. a response to behavior that increases the likelihood the behavior will be repeated
  8. 17. a psychologist who studies the emotional, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur as an individual matures.
  9. 18. having to do with an organism’s mental processes
  10. 23. a psychologist who may work in a mental health or social welfare agency
  11. 25. psychologists who work in business settings or within the government to study the effects of environment on people
  12. 26. psychologists who study the interaction between physical and psychological health factors
  13. 27. wanted to understand how heredity influences a person’s abilities, character, and behavior
  14. 28. famous for his salivating dogs
  15. 30. set up first psychology lab
  16. 32. scientific and professional society of psychologists and educators.
  17. 36. an educated guess about some phenomenon
  18. 37. psychologists who study how behaviors are influenced by others
  19. 39. a psychologist who uses psychological concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environment
  20. 40. study how animals and people adapt to their environments
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  1. 1. psychologists who work in legal, court, correctional systems
  2. 3. having to do with an organism’s physical processes
  3. 6. scientific study of behavior and mental processes
  4. 7. approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized
  5. 8. psychologists who study individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving
  6. 9. a psychologist who studies sensation, perception, learning, motivation and/or emotion in carefully controlled laboratory conditions
  7. 12. when scientists use what we already know to benefit others
  8. 15. approach that involves studying the influence of cultural and ethnic similarities and differences on behavior and social functioning
  9. 16. a scientist who studies the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences
  10. 19. famous for reinforcement experiments on rats and pigeons
  11. 20. psychologists who usually help people deal with problems of everyday life.
  12. 21. studies how physical and chemical changes in our bodies influence our behavior.
  13. 22. complex explanation based on multiple studies
  14. 24. type of psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how thought processes influence behavior.
  15. 29. type of psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth
  16. 31. practice of looking inside one’s self
  17. 33. are people who have been trained to observe, analyze and evaluate behavior.
  18. 34. psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior, feelings, and thoughts
  19. 35. a branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.
  20. 38. the “father of psychology,”