Vocab Choice Board Ch1-Intro to Psychology

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  1. 4. The fourth goal of psychologists is to seek influence behavior by conducting studies with a long-term goal of finding out more about human or animal behavior.
  2. 5. an assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through scientific research
  3. 7. the scientific, systematic study of behaviors and mental processes.
  4. 10. a method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings
  5. 11. vs. nurture Nature refers to the characteristics that a person inherits such as his or her biological makeup, and Nurture refers to environmental factors, such as family, culture, education, and individual experiences.
  6. 13. having to do with an organism’s thinking and understanding
  7. 15. a change in attitude or behavior brought about by social pressure to comply with people perceived to be authorities
  8. 16. the study of how animals and people adapt to their environments
  9. 18. a psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior
  10. 19. The first goal for any scientist or psychologist is to describe or gather information about the behavior being studied and to present what is known.
  11. 20. a psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth
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  1. 1. A person a branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
  2. 2. having to do with an organism’s physical processes
  3. 3. a scientist who studies the mind and behavior of humans and animals
  4. 6. a psychologist who studies how physical and chemical changes in our bodies influence our behavior
  5. 8. the process of redirecting sexual impulses into learning tasks
  6. 9. a psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment
  7. 12. The second goal of a psychologist is to explain why people behave as they do using psychological principles.
  8. 14. a psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior
  9. 17. The third goal of psychologists is to predict, as a result of accumulated knowledge, what organisms will do and, in the case of humans, what they will think or feel in various situations.