Ch. 1 Psychology

the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

• structuralism

• Psychoanalysis

• Psychology

• Gestalt Psychology

observable and measurable actions of people and animals

• behavior

• cognitive activities

• social-learning theory

• introspection

private, unobservable mental processes such as sensation, perception, thought, and problem solving

• functionalism

• ethnic group

• humanistic perspective

• cognitive activities

theorectial entities, or concepts, that enable one to discuss something that cannot be seen, touched or measured directly

• principle

• basic research

• psychological constructs

• learning perspective

a set of assumptions about why something is the way it is and happens the way it does

• theory

• principle

• basic research

• introspection

a rule or law

• theory

• basic research

• principle

• introspection

research that is conducted for its own sake, that is, without seeking a solution to a specific problem

• basic research

• introspection

• associationism

• structuralism

an examination of one's own thoughts and feelings

• basic research

• introspection

• structuralism

• psychoanalysis

a learned connection between two ideas or events

• cognitive perspective

• learning perspective

• structuralism

• associationism

the school of psychology founded by Wilhelm Wundt, that maintains that conscious experience breaks down into objective sensations and subjective feelings

• structuralism

• functionalsim

• behaviorism

• evolutionary perspective