AP Psych Introspection

geitait psychology

"the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

Psychology

The science of behavior and mental processes

cognitive psychology

The study of how people think, learn, and remember.

Functionalism

a school of psychology that focused on behaivor mental and behaivoral process functions. how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish.

Scientific Method

a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence

Behaviorism

a theory that argues that behavior follows stimuli in a relatively unthinking manner. the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behaivor without refernce to mental procedures. influenced by the environment.

population

all the cases in a group, from which samples may be drawn for a study

introspection

examination of one's own thoughts and feelings

Structuralism

school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind. "describing an apple by its parts"

evolutionary psychology

the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection