Across
- 2. school of thought that focuses on how thinking or behavior changes in different contexts or situations.
- 4. theory that the structure of conscious experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of thoughts and sensations.
- 5. humanistic psychologist who developed client-centered therapy.
- 9. theory that emphasized the functions of consciousness or the ways consciousness helps people adapt to their environment.
- 10. Russian psychologist famous for a learning theory called classical conditioning.
- 11. psychology/perspective that focuses on the study of conscious experience, the individual's freedom to choose, and the individual's capacity for personal growth.
- 13. (and Mamie Clark) researcher whose work was used in the Brown v. Board of Ed case that overturned segregation in schools.
- 14. perspective/school of though that focuses on the physical structures and substances underlying a particular behavior, thought, or emotion.
- 15. psychological perspective that emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes.
- 16. founder of psychoanalysis.
- 18. pioneer in the study of developmental psychology who introduced a stage theory of cognitive development that led to a better understanding of children's thought processes.
- 19. perspective/school of thought that focuses on how people think- how we take in, process, store, and retrieve information.
- 20. founder of modern psychology.
- 21. movement in psychology that focuses on the study of optimal human functioning and the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive.
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- 1. Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts.
- 3. humanistic psychologist who proposed the hierarchy of needs, with self-actualization as the ultimate psychological need.
- 6. founder of structuralism.
- 7. first American psychologist and author of the first psychology textbook.
- 8. founder of behaviorism, the theory that psychology should restrict its efforts to studying observable behaviors, not mental processes.
- 12. the theory that psychology should only study observable behaviors, not mental processes.
- 14. the study of the relative effects of genes and environment on our behavior.
- 17. developed the fundamental principles and technoques of operant conditioning and devised ways to apply them in the real world.
