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Wundt - ANSWER✔✔founder of structuralism
James - ANSWER✔✔founder of functionalism
Structualism - ANSWER✔✔Wundt's approach to discovering the basic elements,
or structures, of mental processes
Introspection - ANSWER✔✔the examination of one's own conscious thoughts and
feelings relying exclusively on observation of one's mental state
Functionalism - ANSWER✔✔James's approach to mental processes, emphasizing
the functions and purposes of the mind and behavior in the individual's adaption to
the environment
Biological - ANSWER✔✔an approach to psychology focussing on the body,
especially the brain and nervous system
Behavioral - ANSWER✔✔an approach to psychology emphasizing the scientific
study of observable behavioral responses and their environmental determinants
Psychodynamic - ANSWER✔✔an approach to psychology emphasizing
unconscious thought
, Humanistic - ANSWER✔✔an approach to psychology emphasizing a person's
positive qualities, the capacity for positive growth, and the freedom to choose any
destiny
Cognitive - ANSWER✔✔an approach to psychology emphasizing the mental
processes involved in knowing: how we direct our attention, perceive, remember,
think, and solve problems
Evolutionary - ANSWER✔✔an approach to psychology centered on ideas such as
adaption, reproduction, and natural selection as a basis for explaining specific
human behaviors
Sociocultural - ANSWER✔✔an approach to psychology that examines the ways in
which social and cultural environments influence behavior
Descriptive - ANSWER✔✔a study designed to show the participants in an
accurate way/ describing people who take part in the study
Correlational - ANSWER✔✔a study to show a relationship between two variables-
examines how two variables change together
Experimental - ANSWER✔✔a study to show an experiment where the researcher
manipulates one variable, and control/randomizes the rest of the variables. It has a
control group, the subjects have been randomly assigned between the groups, and
the researcher only tests one effect at a time
Case study - ANSWER✔✔an in-depth look at a single individual
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