Psych Ch. 1
Terms
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- The scientific study of mental processes and behavior
- psychology
- a branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. The roughly comparable specialty area in psychology is known as clinical psychology
- psychiatry
- an early theory in psychology that sought to identify the components of the conscious mind
- structuralism
- an approach to psychology that studies how the unconscious mind shapes behavior
- psychoanalysis
- an approach to psychology that studied how the conscious mind helps humans survive and succussfully adapt to their environment
- functionalism
- an approach to psycholog that studies observable hehavior, rather than hidden mental processes
- behaviorism
- an approach to psychology that studies how the mind actively organize stimuli into coherent wholes
- gestalt psychology
- an appraoch to psychology that emphasizes human beings' innate capacity for personal growth and their ability to consciously make choices
- humanistic perspective
- an approach to psychology that attempts to understand behavior by studying how the mind organizes perceptions, processes informantion, and interprets experiences
- cognitive perspective
- an approach to psychology that attempts to understand behavior by examing physiological processes, expecially those occurring in the brain
- biological perspective
- an approach to psychology based on the principle of natural selection
- evolutionalry psychology
- the process by which organisms with inherited traits best suted to the environment reproduce more successfully than less well-adapted organisms over a number of generations
- natural selction
- the genetic changes that occur in a species over generations due to natural selection
- evolution
- an approach to psychology that emphasizes social and cultural influence on behavior
- sociocultural perspective
- the total lifestyle of people from a particular social grouping, including all the ideas, symbols, preferences, and material objects that they share.
- culture
- psychologiest who use existing psychological knowledge to solve and prevent problems
- applied psychologists