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[blank_start]Psyche[blank_end] means "mind" or "soul"
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The Greek word Logos means "word"
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Psychology is the systematic study of [blank_start]behavior[blank_end] and [blank_start]experience[blank_end]
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"[blank_start]it depends[blank_end]" is the general truth of Psychology
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Free will is the assumption that everything that happens has an identifiable and observable cause
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What is Free Will?
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the theory that all aspects of a society serve a function and are necessary for the survival of that society
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the belief that behavior is caused by an individual’s independent decision-making
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interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience
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What is Dualism?
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Belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular
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focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity
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The mind is separate from the brain but controls the body through it
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Main Area/s of Psychology Practice
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Which psychotherapist would prescribe a mood stabilizing medication to a patient diagnosed with bipolar disorder?
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Which psychotherapist provides counseling and support for recovering addicts in a halfway house?
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Which psychologist would help a middle-aged woman transitioning from work as a homemaker back to college?
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They use developmental, learning, and motivational principles and educational and psychological tests to create plans for individual students
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How does culture affect taste preferences? Which cultures place more emphasis on group interests and how does that affect individual behavior?
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How does brain damage from drug abuse change an individual’s behavior?
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What do people do or know as adults that they do not know as children? Is this due to biological changes, increased experience, or both?
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What do “experts” in a field know or do that sets them apart from other people?
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"Workers in two departments at an engineering firm are withholding information from each other. This is harming company morale and productivity. Can this be remedied without firing or moving any employees?" An Industrial/Organizational Psychologist would be best suited to answer this question.
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[blank_start]Overt[blank_end] is a type of behavior that is observable
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Dreaming is what type of behavior? [blank_start]Covert[blank_end]
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In 1879, [blank_start]Wilhelm Wundt[blank_end] established the first laboratory devoted to psychological research
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Founder of American Psychology and paved the way for the rise of behaviorism. [blank_start]William James[blank_end]
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One of Wundt's students and attempted to analyze the elements of mental experience relying on people's own observations-- discouraging other psychologists with his approach. [blank_start]Edward Titchener[blank_end]
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His theories heavily influenced the early development of psychotherapy. [blank_start]Sigmund Freud[blank_end]
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Systemized the behaviorist approach and popularized it
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Clark Hull
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John B. Watson
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Edward Titchner
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William James
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[blank_start]Alfred Binet[blank_end] was a French psychologist who invented the first practical intelligence test
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What is Functionalism?
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a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.
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the function of mental processes, including consciousness.
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a method that crosses disciplines and cultures.
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an approach to psychology that focuses on an individual's behavior.
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Structuralism is a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience.
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[blank_start]Behaviorism[blank_end] is an approach to psychology that focuses on an individual's behavior.
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What is introspection?
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the function of mental processes, including consciousness.
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a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.
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the examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings.
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a method that crosses disciplines and cultures.
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an approach to psychology that focuses on an individual's behavior.
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[blank_start]Monism[blank_end] states that conscious experience is generated by and inseparable from the brain