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| the systematic, scientific study of behaviors and mental processes |
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| refers to observable actions or responses in both humans and animals |
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| not directly observable, refers to a wide range of complex mental processes, such as thinking, imagining, studying, and dreaming. |
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| Describe, Explain, Predict, and Control |
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| to describe the different ways that organisms behave |
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| explain the cause of the behavior |
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| predict how organisms will behave in certain situations |
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| to control an organisms behavior |
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| the six approaches to explain behavior |
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| Biological, Cognitive, Behavioral, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, and cross cultural |
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| focuses on genes, hormones, and nervous system work with our environments to influence learning, personality, memory, motivation, emotions, and coping techniques. |
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| examines how we process, store and use information an how this info influences what we attend to, perceive, learn, remember, believe and feel |
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| studies how organisms learn new behaviors or modify existing ones.This depends on weather events in their environments reward or punish these bhaviors |
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| stresses the influence of unconscious fears, desires, and motivations on thoughts, behaviors, and the development of personality traits and psychological problems later in life |
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| emphansizes that each individual has great freedom in directing his or her future, a large capacity for growth, a considerable amount of intrinsic worth, and enormous potential for self-fulfillment |
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| examines the influence of cultural and ethic similarities and differences on psychological and social functioning of a culture's members |
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| A survey, case study, and an experiment |
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| is a way to obtain info with multiple questions (+ for large amount of people) |
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| an in depth analysis of the thoughts, feelings, beliefs,experiences, behaviors and problems. (+ good at showing cause an effect relationships) |
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| To identify cause and effect relationships by following a set of rules to minimize the possibility for error |
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| an association or relationship between the occurrence of 2 or more events |
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