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What is the science in psychology? - answer-the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, encompassing not just what people do but also their biological activities, feelings, perceptions, memory, reasoning, and thoughts. Behavioral genetics - answer-Behavioral genetics studies the inheri...

What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes? - answer-Psychology What is behavior? - answer-Outward or overt actions and reactions What are the internal, covert activities of our minds known as? - answer-Mental processes Who created the Id, Ego, and the Superego - answer-F...

Wilhelm Wundt - answer-Structuralist; father of modern psychology William James - answer-Functionalist; father of American psyhcology *examined goals/purposes of behaviors Sir Francis Galton - answer-Believed that genetics accounted for our personality Sigmund Freud - answer-Developed the...

What is the study of psychology? - answer-a. The scientific study of the mind, brain, and behavior b. Psychologist ask SCIENTIFIC questions, and determine validity of theories What are the multiple levels of analysis in Psychology? - answer-Biological, Social, Cognitive, Cultural, Individual dif...

Physiological - answer-having to do with an organism's physical appearance Cognitive - answer-having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding Psychology - answer-the scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research Hypothesis - answer-an assumption or pre...

Wilhelm Wundt - answer-The first man of psychology. Started it in 1879 when conducted experiment about hearing and being aware of it. Structuralism - answer-Early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind. Functionalism - answer-school of...

Behaviorism - answer-the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2). Humanistic Psychology - answer-emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and...

Cognitive Psychology - answer-The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind. Definition of the mind's role - answer-The mind creates and controls mental functions such as perception, attention, memory, emotions, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning. Definitio...

The early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used introspection to review the structure of the human mind. - answer-Structuralism Why did introspection fail as a method for understanding how the mind works? - answer-It required smart, verbal people and results varied from person t...