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  1. 4. Cause The mechanics of a behavior or cognitive process.
  2. 5. James I was known as the father of American psychology.
  3. 7. Crik I was the co-discoverer of DNA and proposed what I called "The Astonishing Hypothesis".
  4. 11. Hypothesis A behavioral statement outlines a population, motivation, set of limitations, desired behavior, and a way to measure it
  5. 12. Psychology Interested in how we interact with the world, make sense out of what goes on around us, and understand ourselves and others.
  6. 16. A new focus of psychology from Darwin's theory.
  7. 17. Titchener I trained under Wundt and coined the term structuralism.
  8. 19. Freud I was both tremendously influential and controversial figure in the history of modern psychology and my theories continue to influence academia and culture.
  9. 20. Bell I discovered that nerves travel from the brain to the organs and support both sensory and motor functions.
  10. 22. Hypothesis Our mental life, consciousness, morality, decision-making, and judgment is the product of a material brain.
  11. 23. Spencer I was a famous evolutionist and contemporary of Charles Darwin.
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  1. 1. One of psychology's most famous approaches. Explain the natural laws of behavior.
  2. 2. Cause Refers to the "why" of behavior and mental processes.
  3. 3. Psychology Grew out of the feminist movement of the late 1960s. Rejects male-generated, religious, and traditional approaches to understanding women.
  4. 6. Also called psychobiology and neuro-anatomy.
  5. 8. A set of principles for living a fulfilled life.
  6. 9. Darwin I rejected Church authority in favor of individual, Spirit led understanding.
  7. 10. each mental structure and behavior consists of ever simpler component structures and behaviors.
  8. 13. Psychology Explanation of the evolutionary processes alone were enough to produce the brain.
  9. 14. Psychology People should feel good about themselves, learn to love themselves, and rid themselves of needless same and guilt.
  10. 15. Galton I was first described as the heritability of physical characteristics.
  11. 18. Von Helmholtz I made contributions to our understanding of hearing and vision.
  12. 21. The researcher looked inward to describe subjective mental experiences.