Psychology Chapter 1

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Basic Psychology

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The study of psychological issues in order to seek knowledge for its own sake rather than for its practical application

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Structuralism

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An early psychological approach that emphasized the analysis of immediate experience into basic elements.

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Learning Perspective

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A psychological approach that emphasizes how the environment and experience affect a person's or animal's actions; it ingludes behaviourism and social-cognitive learning theories.

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empirical

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Relying on or derived from observation, experimentation, or measurement.

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Critical thinking

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The ability and williingness to assess claims and make judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons and evidence, rather than emotion or anecdote.

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Functionalism

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An early psychological approach that emphasized the function or purpose of behaviour and consciousness.

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Cognitive perspective

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A psychological approach that emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem solving, and other areas of behavious.

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Psychology

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The discipline concerned with behavious and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism's physical state, mental state, and external enviroment; the term is often represented by Y, the greek letter psi (usually prenounced sy)

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Hummanist psychology

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A psycological approach that emphasizes personal growth and the achievement of human potential, rather than the scientific understanding and assessement of behaviour.

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Biological persoective

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A psychological approach that emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions, feelings and thoughts.

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Applied psychology

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The study of psychological issues that have direct practical significance; also, the application of psychological findings.

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Sociocultural perspective

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A psychological approach that emphasizes social and cultural influences on behaviour.

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Feminist psychology

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A psychological approach that analyzes the influence of social inequities on gender relations and on the behaviour of the two sexes

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phrenology

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the discredited theory that different brain areas account for characterand personality traits, which can be "read" from bumps on the skull.

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Psychodynamic perspective

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A psychologial approach that emphasizes uncounscious dynamics within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or the movement of instinctual energy.

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psychoanalysis

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A theory of personality and a method of psychoterapy, originally formulated by Sigmund Freud, which emphasizes unconcious motives and conflicts.

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Functionalism

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An early psychological approach that emphasizes the function or purpose of behaviour and conciousness.