Psychological Perspectives

4. Noam Chomsky was very influential in beginning this type of revolution.
7. Created the first laboratory for psychological research.
9. Understanding the conscious experience through introspection.
10. The scientific study of mind and behavior.
11. Focuses on humans as a whole rather than individual parts.
12. Proposed a hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior.
15. Developed a client-centered therapy method.
16. Process by which someone examines their own conscious experience in an attempt to break it into its component parts
17. Focuses on observing and controlling behavior.

1. Skinner studied how behavior was affected by these.
2. Emphasizes the potential for good that is innate in all humans.
3. Studied "hysteria" and neurosis.
5. How mental activities help an organism adapt to its environment.
6. According to Gestalt, this is greater than the sum of its parts.
8. Focuses on the role of the unconscious in affecting conscious behavior.
10. Russian physiologist who discovered the concept of classical conditioning.
13. Known as the father of behaviorism within psychology.
14. First American psychologist, established functionalism.