Psych: Chapter 1 Key Terms

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Across
  1. 2. The school of psychology, founded by William James, that emphasizes the purposes of behavior and mental processes
  2. 4. The school of psychology, founded by Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior
  3. 8. The scientific study of behavior and mental process
  4. 9. A set of assumptions about why something is the way it is and happens the way it does
  5. 12. Perspective In psychology, the perspective that focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in personality formation, behavior, and mental processes
  6. 14. Perspective The psychological view that assumes the existence of the self and emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and the freedom to make choices
  7. 16. An examination of one's own thoughts and feelings
  8. 18. Activities Private, unobservable mental processes such as sensation, perception, thought, and problem solving
  9. 19. Perspective The theory focusing on the evolution of behavior and mental processes
  10. 20. Psychology The school of psychology that emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into meaningful wholes
  11. 21. Perspective The viewpoint that emphasize the role of thought processes in determining behavior
Down
  1. 1. Theory The theory that suggests that people have the ability to change their environments or create new ones
  2. 3. Thinking The theory that most of what fills an individuals mind is unconscious and consists of conflicting impulses, urges, and wishes
  3. 5. A learned connection between two ideas or events
  4. 6. Perspective The psychological perspective that emphasizes the influence of biology on behavior
  5. 7. Constructs Theoretical entities, or concepts, that enable one to discuss something that cannot be seen, touched, or measured directly
  6. 8. Perspective The perspective that stresses the influences of unconscious forces on human behavior
  7. 10. Group A group united by cultural heritage, race, language, or common history
  8. 11. The school of psychology, founded by Wilhelm Wundt, that maintains that conscious experience breaks down into objective sensations and subjective feelings
  9. 13. Perspective The psychological point of view that emphasizes the effects of experience on behavior
  10. 15. The school of psychology, founded by John Watson, that defines psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior
  11. 17. Observable and measurable actions of people and animals