Psych Ch 1 Vocab Quiz

psychology

• the study of human matter
• the study of mental processes and behavior
• the study of intelligence
• the study of personality and emotions

cognitive activities

• mental processes
• intelligence processes
• emotional processes
• behavioral processes

theory

• an idea that forms by one to be proven by many
• attempts to explain why things are the way they are and why they happen the way they do
• a music class that is also used in psychology
• an idea that needs to be created

introspection

• examining your thoughts and feelings
• looking outward at society
• inspecting a psychological theory
• the inspection of an introduction to a theory

structuralism

• concerned with discovering the basic elements of consciousness
• analyzing subjective feelings
• the study of sight, taste, and touch to observe the outside world
• studying the structure of family life

functionalism

• a stream of consciousness approach to psychology
• concerned with how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment
• study of how people function in the world around them
• a mathematical approach to psychology

behaviorism

• when a person acts differently that a psychologist expects
• the scientific study of observable behavior
• using behavior as a type of mental therapy
• the study of animal behavior and how it affects humans

psychoanalysis

• analyzing and interpreting past behavior
• the lack of insight of a person being observed by a therapist
• emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts
• the term for the analysis of a psychotic individual

biological perspective

• emphasizes the influence of biology in our behavior
• emphasizes the influence of genetic and social stimuli
• emphasizes the role of plant and animal life in relation to humans
• uses what you learned in Biology class and integrates it with psychology

cognitive perspective

• emphasizes the role that thoughts play in determining behavior
• uses a "cog in a machine" approach to psychoanalysis
• the idea that memory can produce an incorrect response
• created in the region of Cogny in France