Chapter 1 - Approaches to Psychology Vocab

Having to do with an organism's physical process

• Psychological
• Biological
• Philosophical
• Physiological

Having to do with and organism's thinking and understanding

• Physical
• Emotional
• Cognitive
• Behavioral

The scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research.

• biology
• physics
• psychology
• chemistry

An assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through scientific research

• experiment
• hypothesis
• conclusion
• theory

A set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific study

• Theory
• Conclusion
• Guess
• Hypothesis

Psychologists who studies basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences

• Humanistic psychologist
• Behaviorist psychologist
• Cognitive psychologist
• Structuralist psychologist

A psychologist who studies the function rather than the structure of consciousness

• Behavioral psychiatrist
• Structural psychologist
• Consciousness biologist
• Functional psychologist

Psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior, feelings, and thoughts.

• Cognitive psychologist
• Psychoanalyst psychologist

• Behavioral psychologist
• Humanistic psychologist

psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in their enviornment

• Behavioral psychologist
• Clinical psychologist
• Cognitive psychologist
• Social psychologist

A psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth

• Psychoanalytic psychologist
• Humanistic psychologist
• Cognitive psychologist
• Behaviorist psychologist