Psychology 101
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- Type of psychology that states behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed as a whole?
- Gestalt Psychology
- What is Psychic Determinism?
- the psychoanalytic assumption that all feelings, thoughts, and actions have a purpose and are determined by past events
- What is empiricism?
- the view that knowledge should be acquired through obervation tand often experiment
- What is introspection?
- a person's description and analysis of what he is thinking and feeling or what he has just thought about
- If the results of an experiment are very likely to be real and consistent and not just the result of chance or cincidence, we say the results are...?
- significant
- The first psychological laboratory was opened by...?
- Wihelm Wundt in Germany in 1879
- The early school of psychological thought that emphasized the study of how immediate, conscious experience is organized was....?
- structuralism
- Joseph is a medical doctor who treats people with emotional problems by prescribing appropriate medications. What is he?
- a psychiatrist
- An applied psychologist is one who...?
- does research and uses it to solve pratical problems
- The major professional organization for psychologists mentioned in your text is the...?
- American Psychological Association (APA)