chapter 1- What is Psychology

Behaviorism

A school of thought that emphasizes objectivity, observable behavioral responses, learning and environmental determinants

constructivism

Modern cognitive psychology views human beings as actively constructing their minds through their exploration into the physical and the social world.

functionalism

The tendency to think about thinking in terms of their usual functions, impediments to problem solving. The school of psychology that emphasized the utilitarian, adaptive functions of the human mind

Mind

_____ is the concept, which refers to unique set of individual's sensations, perceptions, memories, thoughts dreams, motives, and emotional feelings.

psychotherapy

a method of psychotherapy in which therapist attempts to bring the repressed unconscious material into conscious.

gestalt psychology

A branch of psychology in which behavior is viewed as integrated whole , greater than sum of its parts .

cognition

All the mental activities associated with knowing. These are associated with processing understanding and communication information.

gestalt

An organized whole, the _________ psychologists emphasis our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

Behavior

Any covert or overt action a person does that can be observed in some way.

Humantistic Psychology

The approach to psychology that emphasises the person, or the self, and personal growth and development .

Neuropsychology

it is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes and functions of brain activity and the nervous system.

Introspection

the process of looking inward to one's feeling and conscious experience.

Sociology

the systematic study of the biological basis for social behavior.

Developmental psychology

A branch of Psychology which establishes the physical , social and psychological changes that occurs at different stages over a life span from conception to oldage

structuralism

associated with Wilhelm Wudnt, the approach to psychology that seeks to understand the structure and operation of consciousness, or the human mind