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| concluded that mind is separable from body and continues after the body dies |
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| the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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| used observation instead of just logic, concluded soul is not separable from body, and knowledge comes from experiences |
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| innate ideas, mind is separate from body, fluid in brain cavities contained "animal spirits" which flowed through nerves to muscles |
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| empiricism ftw, one of founders of modern science |
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| father of psychology - first psychology lab/experiment in Leipzig |
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| student of Wundt, introduced structuralism, method was to engage people in introspection |
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| early school of psych that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind |
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| professor @ Harvard, functionalist, influenced by Darwin, admitted Mary Calkins into his grad. seminar |
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| school of psych that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to adapt, survive and flourish |
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| denied PhD in psych from Harvard, became distinguished memory researcher and APA's first female president |
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| first female to receive a PhD in psych, synthesized animal behavioral research in The Animal Mind |
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| emphasized ways emotional responses to childhood experiences and our unconscious affect behavior |
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| behaviorists, redefined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior |
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| Rogers and Maslow, emphasized importance of current environmental influences on growth potential, and importance of meeting our needs for love/acceptance |
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| long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors |
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| 3 different levels of analysis integrated into a complete approach |
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| Perspective: Neuroscience |
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| How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences |
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| Perspective: Evolutionary |
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| How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes |
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| Perspective: Behavior genetics |
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| How much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences |
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| Perspective: Psychodynamic |
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| How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
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| How we learn observable responses |
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| How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information |
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| How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures |
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