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Details Title Psychology 107 CH 1 Description The Science of Psychology Total Cards 21 Subject Psychology Created 09/20/2011

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Term Psychology	Definition The scientfic study of behavior and mental processes
Term Science	Definition The use of systematic methods to observe the natural world, including human behavior, and to draw conclusions
Term Behavior	Definition Everthing we do that can be directly observed.
Term Mental process	Definition The thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experience privately but that cannot be observed directly.
Term Critical Thinking	Definition The process of reflecting deeply and actively, asking questions, and evaluating evidence.
Term Empirical Method	Definition Gaining knowledge through the observation of events, the collection do datat, and logical reasoning
Term Positive Psychology	Definition A branch of psychology that emphasizes human strengths.
Term William Wudnt	Definition Founded the first psychology laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig.
Term Structuralism	Definition Wundt's approach to discovering the basic elements, or sturctures, of mental processes; so called because of its focus on identifying the structures of the human mind.
Term Funtionalism	Definition William James's approach to mental processes, emphasizing the functions and purposes of the mind and behavior in the individual's adaptation to the enviorment.
Term Natural Selection	Definition Darwin's Principle of evolutionary process in which organisms that are best adapted to their enoviorment will survive and produce offspring.
Term Biological Approach	Definition An approach to psychology focusing on the body, especially the brain and nervous system.
Term Neuroscience	Definition The Scientific study of the structure, function, development, genetics, and biochemistry of the nervous system, emphasizing that the brain and nervous system are central to understaning behavior, thought and emotion.
Term Behavioral Approach	Definition Emphasizing the sceintific study of observable behavioral responses and their enviromental determinants. (B. F. Skinner and John B. Watson)
Term Psychodynamic Approach	Definition An approach to psychology emphasizing unconscious thought, the conflict between biological drives (such as the drive for sex) and society's demands, and eraly childhood family experiences. Founded by Sigmund Freud.
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Term Humanistic Approach	Definition Empasizing a person's positive qualities, the capcity for positive growth, and the freedom to choose any destiny.
Term Cognitive Approach	Definition Emphasizes the mental process involved in knowing: how we direct our attention, percieve, remember, think, and solve problems.
Term Evolutionary Approach	Definition An approach to psychology centered on evolutionary ideas such as adaptation, reproduction, and natural selection as the basis for explaing specific human behaviors.
Term Sociocultural Approach	Definition An approach to psychology that examines the ways in which social and cultural enviorments influence behavior.
Term Psyhopathology	Definition The scientific study of psychological disorders and the development of diagnostic categories and treatments for those disorders.

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