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Psychology
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Is the Scientific study of behavior and mental process.
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Behavior
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Is any action that other people can observe or measure.
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Cognitive Activities
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Dreams, perceptions, thoughts, and memories.
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Psychological Construct
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Construct that are used to talk about something we cannot see, touch, or measure directly.
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Theory
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Is a statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are and happen.
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Principle
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Is a rule or law, such as the principle that you will probably get better grade if you study more.
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Basic Research
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Is research that has no immediate application and is done for its own sake.
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Introspection
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A method meaning "looking within," that we can learn much about ourselves by carefully examining our thoughts and feelings.
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Associationism
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A learned connection between two ideas or events.
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Structuralism
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The school of Psychology, founded Wilhelm Wundt, that maintains that conscious experience breaks down into objective sensations and subjective feelings.
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Functionalism
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The school of Psychology, founded by William James, that emphasizes the purposes of behavior and mental process.
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Behaviorism
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The school of Psychology, founded by John Watson, that defines psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior.
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Gestalt Psychology
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The School of Psychology that emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into meaningful wholes.
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Psychoanalysis
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The School of psychology, founded by sigmund Freud, that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior.
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Psychodynamic Thinking
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The theory that most of what fills an individual's mind is unconscious and consists of conflicting impulses, urges, and wishes.
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