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| The study of the behaviour and mental processes of human and animals. |
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He was the first one who attempted to scientifically study human behvaiour in a lab in the 1800's. He wanted to see if he could measure human behaviour by breaking it down into small parts. He got partisipants to hold their hands out, blind folded, and he put different weights in their hands to see when they felt anything in their hands.
He started the first school of psychology known as structuralism. |
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| Believes that every solitary behaviour serves a purpose. Every behaviour is self-serving. They find the reason for the behaviour. |
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| They are trying to find what is coming in and out of the enviroment. It has been around since the first world war. |
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| Empasizes activity of the nervous system, espically of the brain; the action of horomones and other chemicals; and genetics. |
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| Empasizes the way in which behaviour and mental processes are adaptive for survival. |
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| Emphasizes internal conflicts, mostly unconsious, which usually pit sexual or aggressive instincts against enviromental obstacles to their exspression. |
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| Emohasizes learning, especially each person's experiences with rewards and punishments. |
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| Emphasizes mechanisms through which people recieve, store, retrieve, and otherwise process information. |
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| Emphasizes individual potential for growth and the role of unique perceptions in guiding behaviour and mental processes. |
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