Psychology

Builds psychology's knowledge base, or:

Applied Research

The Greek philosopher who argued that all knowledge comes from experience stored in memories is _____. Unlike his teacher, who derived principles from ____, he derived principles from careful ______.

Aristotle, Logic, Observation

As a science, psychology is less a set of findings than a way of ______

Asking and Answering Questions

In its earliest years, psychology was defined as the 1920's into the 1960's, psychology in America was defined as the science of _____ life.

Mental.

Which psychological perspective emphasizes the interaction of the brain and body in behavior?

Neuroscience

SQ3R Sequence

Survey, Question, Read Review, Reflect

Francis Bacon's ideas led most directly to the scholarly view known as:

Empiricism

Psychologists who study how natural selection influences behavior tendencies are working from the _______ perspective, whereas those concerned with the relative influences of genes and environment on individual differences are working from the ________ perspective

Evolutionary, Behavior Genetics.

Psychologists who study the degree to which genes influence our personality are working from the _____ persepctive

Behavior genetics.

The author of your test defines psychology as the science of ____ and _____ processes.

Behavior, Mental

The author of your text defines psychology as the scientific study of ___ and _____ processes.

Behavior, Mental

As a response to Freudian psychology and to ___ which they considered too mechanistic, pioneers ____ and ___ forged _____ psychology. This new perspective emphasized the ____ potential of ___ people.

Behaviorism, Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, Humanistic, Growth, Healthy

The nature-nurture issues is the controversy over the relative contributions of ____ and _____

Biology, Experience

In the prescientific era, scholars such as _____ in India and ____ in China pondered the relationship between mind and body.

Budda, Confucius

In this definition, "behavior" refers to any action that we can ___ and _____, and "mental processes" refers to the internal _____ ____ we ______ from behavior.

Observe, Record, Subjective, Experience, Infer

A psychologist who conducts experiments solely intended to build psychology's knowledge base is engaged in:

Basic research

The Greek philosopher who argues that all knowledge comes from sensory experience is ______.

Aristotle

The seventeenth-century philosopher who believed that the mind is blank at birth and that most knowledge comes through sensory experience is:

Aristotle

The first Female president of the American Psychological Association was ______. The first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology was ______.

Calkins, Washborn.

In 1859, naturalist ______ explained species variation by proposing the process of _____, which works through the principle of _______

Charles Darwin, Evolution, Natural Selection

Psychologists who study, asses, and treat troubled people are called:

Clinical psychologists

Psychologists who study, assess, and treat troubled people are called:

Clinical psychologists

During the 1960's, psychology underwent a ____ revolution as it began to recapture interest in processes. The study of the interaction of thought processes and _____ function is called __________

Cognitive, Brain Function, Cognitive Revolution.

Today, psychology is a discipline that:

Connects with a diversity of other fields

Psychologists who help people cope with problems in living is called:

Counseling

Which seventeenth-century philosopher believed that some ideas are innate?

Descartes

____, who believed that some ideas are innate.

Descartes

Who introduced the early school of structuralism?

Edward Titchener

Worldwide, the number of psychologists is _____

Increasing

Who would be more likely to agree with the statement, " Psychology should investigate only behaviors that can be observed"?

John B. Watson

Some early psychologists include Ivan Pavlov, who pioneered the study of ______; the personality theorist ____; and Jean Piaget, who studied ____

Learning, Freud, Children

In the 1600's, the views of the Greek philosopher were revived by ____, who believed that knowledge comes through the sense.

Locke

Psychologists who study how the body and brain enables emotions, memories, and sensory experiences are working from the _____ perspective.

Neuroscience

The historical rots of psychology includes the fields of ____ and ______

Philosophy, Biology

The Greek philosopher who assumed that character and intelligence are inherited is ____

Plato

Medical doctors who provide psychotherapy and treat physical causes of psychological disorders are called:

Psychiatry

This idea, along with the principle that science flourishes through observation and experiment, is called ______

Psychology Science

In the 1600's, the view of the Greek philosophers were revived by ______, who believed that some ideas are innate; by Englishman _______, who became one of the founders of modern science; and by experimenting, who believed that knowledge originates in experience.

Rene Descartes, Francis Bacon

In earliest days, psychology was defined as the:

Science of mental life

Today, Psychology is defined as the:

Scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

A psychology who explores how Asian and North American definitions of attractiveness different is working from the _____ perspective.

Social-Cultural

The Greek philosophores ____ and ____ viewed mind and body as ___, and assumed that knowledge is __ (innate)

Socrates, Plato, Separable, Born

Each person is a complex ____ that is part of a larger ______ and at the same time composed of smaller systems. For this reason, psychologists work from three main ____ of ____ - biological, ____, and ________ - --- which together from an integrated _______ approach to the study of behavior and mental processes.

System, Social System, Levels of Analysis, Social Culture, Biosychosocial

Which of the following exemplifies the issue if the relative importance of nature and nurture in our behavior?

The issue of the relative influence of biology and experience on behavior

Introspection proved to be _______, and psychologist ____ introduced the school of _____, which focused on how mental and behavioral processes enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.

Unreliable, James, Functionalism

Who wrote the early textbook Principles of Psychology?

William James

The first psychological laboratory was founded in 1879 by Wilhelm _____. His student, _______, introduced the school of _______, which explored the basic elements of mind using the method of ________.

Wundt, Bradford, Structuralism,Introspection. (Tishman)