Introduction and history of psychology
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| 7434006856 | psychology | the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |  | 0 |
| 7434006857 | empirical approach | a study conducted via careful observations and scientifically based research | 1 | |
| 7434006858 | pseudo-psychology | Erroneous assertions or practices set forth as being scientific psychology |  | 2 |
| 7434006859 | confirmation bias | the tendency to attend to evidence that complements and confirms our beliefs or expectations, while ignoring evidence that does not |  | 3 |
| 7434006860 | experimental psychologists | psychologists who apply experimental methods to the study of behavior (AKA research psychologists) |  | 4 |
| 7434006861 | teachers of psychology | psychologists whose primary job is teaching, typically in high schools, colleges, and universities | 5 | |
| 7434006862 | applied psychologists | psychologists who use the knowledge developed by experimental psychologists to solve human problems |  | 6 |
| 7434006863 | psychiatry | a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy |  | 7 |
| 7434006864 | structuralism | an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind (founded by Wundt) | 8 | |
| 7434006865 | introspection | a method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings |  | 9 |
| 7434006866 | functionalism | William James's school of psychological thought that stressed the adaptive and survival value of behaviors (i.e. their functions) | 10 | |
| 7434006867 | Gestalt psychology | a psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts |  | 11 |
| 7434006868 | behaviorism | the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes | 12 | |
| 7434006869 | psychoanalysis | Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. |  | 13 |
| 7434006870 | biological view | the psychological perspective that searches for the causes of behavior in the functioning of genes, the brain, nervous system, and the endoctrine system (hormones) | 14 | |
| 7434006871 | neuroscience | study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psycho-biology |  | 15 |
| 7434006872 | evolutionary psychology | the study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection |  | 16 |
| 7434006873 | developmental view | the psychological perspective emphasizing changes that occur across the lifespan | 17 | |
| 7434006874 | cognitive view | the psychological perspective emphasizing mental processes, such as learning, memory, perception, and thinking, as forms of information processing | 18 | |
| 7434006875 | cognitions | mental processes, such as thinking, memory, sensation, and perception |  | 19 |
| 7434006876 | cognitive neuroscience | the branch of neuroscience that studies the biological foundations of mental phenomena | 20 | |
| 7434006878 | psycho-dynamic psychology | A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders |  | 21 |
| 7434006879 | humanistic psychology | a clinical psychological viewpoint emphasizing human ability, growth, potential, and free will |  | 22 |
| 7434006880 | behavioral view | a psychological perspective that finds the source of our actions in environmental stimuli, rather than in inner mental processes | 23 | |
| 7434006881 | sociocultural view | a psychological perspective emphasizing the importance of social interaction, social learning, and a cultural perspective |  | 24 |
| 7434006882 | trait view | a psychological perspective that views behavior and personality as the products of enduring psychological characteristics | 25 | |
| 7434218989 | William James | Founded Functionalism and wrote the first Psychology textbook. | 26 | |
| 7434224221 | Wilhem Wundt | Founded Structuralism and opened the first psychology laboratory. | 27 | |
| 7434233080 | Charles Darwin | Studied evolution and also believed human behavior could be studied just like animal behavior. | 28 | |
| 7434240262 | Sigmund Freud | Founder of the Psychoanalytic approach. | 29 | |
| 7434245946 | John B. Watson | Founder of Behaviorism | 30 |
