Psychology Definitions

3. the study of the whole person
4. an educated guess
6. vs Nurture names for a controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or environment is responsible for driving behavior
9. the scientific study of behavior & mental processes
10. a professional with an academic degree & specialized training in one or more areas of psychology
13. having to do with an organism’s physical processes
16. a psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, & use information & how cognitive processes influence our behavior
19. explaining behavior by experiments
20. a psychologist who studies the effects that physical & chemical changes have on behavior

1. predicting when the behavior will happen in the future
2. describing behavior by carefully observing
5. an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind
7. capable of being seen or noticed
8. how we encode, process, store & retrieve information
11. a medical doctor who has specialized in the diagnosis & treatment of psychological disorders
12. a method of studying how the mind works & treating mental disorders
14. the act of looking into one’s own thoughts & feelings
15. helping a certain behavior
17. early school of thought promoted by James & influenced by Darwin; explored how mental & behavioral process function-how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, & flourish
18. the theory that psychology can be studied through observational action