Psych Unit 1 Final

The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation

• Empiricism

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Experimental Psychology

Early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind

• Empiricism

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Experimental Psychology

A school of thought promoted by James and influenced by Darwin; explored how mental and behavioral processes function – how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish

• Empiricism

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Experimental Psychology

The study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method

• Empiricism

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Experimental Psychology

The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes

Most researchers today agree with (1) not with (2)

• Behaviorism

• Humanistic Psychology

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• Psychology

The science of behavior and mental processes.

• Behaviorism

• Humanistic Psychology

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• Psychology

a Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people

• Behaviorism

• Humanistic Psychology

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• Psychology

The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language) 

• Behaviorism

• Humanistic Psychology

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• Psychology

the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors

• Nature-Nurture Issue

• Natural Selection

• Levels of Analysis

• Behavioral Psychology

the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations

• Nature-Nurture Issue

• Natural Selection

• Levels of Analysis

• Behavioral Psychology