Psychology chapter 1

Dominance of behaviorism

Discouraged the study of mental processes in psychology

Dehumanizing

One of the main criticisms raised concerning both behaviorism and psychoanalytic theory

Wilhelm Wundt

Person linked with the notion that psychology should be the study of conscious experience.

Behaviorism

Behavior explained by terms of conditioning. Ex: a mother teaching her son to buckle his seatbelt by only allowing him to play his tapes when he was buckled

Psychometrics

Interest in the development of psychological tests to measure intelligence or personality traits

"Psychology evolves in a socio-historical context"

Psychology and society both influence each other

Educational psychology

Specializes in the development of curricula and training of teacher

Functionalists

The ___ believed that consciousness developed in humans because it served a useful purpose.

False

True/false: a strict behavioralist would view nature as more important than nurture in determining an individual's observable responses to a given stimulus

True

True/false: according to Wilhelm Wundt, psychology's primary focus should be the scientific study of mental processes.

False

True/false: functionalists relied heavily on the method of introspection to understand the nature and function of conscious processes.

Behavior

Watson defined psychology as the scientific study of ___.

Cognitive perspective and biological perspective

Which pair or terms reflects the observation that 'psychology returns to its roots' in the latter part of the 20th century?