Psychology

The theory of natural selection in explaining adaptations is most consistent with _____.

Functionalism

is an approach that concentrates on what the mind does and the role of behavior in allowing people to adapt to their environment.

Functionalism

June attempts to study the structure of her mental processes by thinking carefully about the experience of sunlight warming her skin. June is practicing ______.

Introspection

Pedro is thinking deeply about his feelings and monitoring how he responds to common stimuli. Pedro is engaging in , which is also an approach used by the structuralists in the history of psychology.

Introspection

Functionalism had its roots in the thoughts of ______.

James

Like functionalism, structuralism focuses on ______.

Mental Processes

Darwin's principle of is an evolutionary process in which organisms best adapted to their surroundings will survive and produce offspring.

Natural selection

Mark just completed a research study. The results were completely different from what he had hypothesized. Although the results didn't turn out the way he expected, he sits down to start writing up the unexpected findings. This situation is a good example of which scientific attitude?

Objectivity

The four core attitudes in the scientific approach are critical thinking, curiosity, skepticism, and

Objectivity

What is the difference between a behavior and a mental process?

Only behaviors can be directly observed.

William James used the term ____ to describe the natural flow of thought.

stream of consciousness

Most psychologists work in ______.

Academic Settings

Louis is watching two people at the cafe where he is drinking a cup of tea, and he wonders how he can recognize that they are flirting with each other without being able to hear what they are saying. Louis's observation is a good example of which attitude in the scientific approach?

Curiosity

A psychologist interested in knowing how love between two people can sometimes endure for 50 years would be an example of how scientists are

Curious

When researchers gather evidence and examine it logically, they are using the _____ method.

Empirical

Critical thinking is the practice of evaluating ______.

Evidence

The three key parts of psychology include all of the following, EXCEPT _____.

Physical Processes

he goals of the science of psychology are which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

Predicting behavior Describing behavior Explaining behavior

Is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

Psychology

Psychology is the _______ study of all human behaviors.

Scientific

Scientists should be , which means that they challenge what people believe to be true, especially when there is a lack of evidence for the belief.

Skeptical

Donna has heard that dogs can only see in black and white, but she refuses to believe it outright. Instead, she is going to figure out some tasks that require color vision to test her own dog to better assess this statement. Donna is best illustrating which scientific attitude?

Skepticism

Which approach to psychology did Wilhelm Wundt endorse?

Structuralism

______ is concerned with the components of the mind, whereas ______ is concerned with the functions and purposes of the mind and behavior in the individual's adaptation to the environment.

Structuralism; functionalism

The defining feature that makes psychology a science is _____.

The use of systematic methods to gather data and form conclusions

Psychology has its roots in both philosophy and the natural sciences.

True

Which of the following are examples of mental processes?

Worrying Daydreaming Solving a math problem in your head Remembering last weekend

created the first psychology laboratory.

Wundt

The field of psychology has its roots in _____.

philosophy, biology, and physiology