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| the view that a) knowledge comes from experience via the senses, and b) science flourishes through obersavtion and experiment. (p.4) |
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| an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind. (p.4) |
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| a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flurish. (p.4) |
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| the science of behavior and mental processes. (p.8) |
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| the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. (p.10) |
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| the principal that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those that lead to increased reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations. (p.10) |
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| pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base. (p.13) |
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| scientific study that aims to solve practical problems (p.13) |
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| a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders. (p.14) |
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| a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy. (p.14) |
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