Exam (elaborations) Psychology

Introspection - ANSWER Focusing on inner sensations, images and feelings. Wundt used this approach as did James with the stream of consciousness. Behaviorists - ANSWER John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner dismissed introspection and redefined psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior. Humanistic Psychology - ANSWER Rebelled against both Behaviorism and Freudian psychology. Pioneers Carl Rogers and Maslow emphasized the importance of current environmental influences on our growth potential. Psychology - ANSWER Science of behavior and mental processes. Nature-nurture issue - ANSWER The controversy over the relative contributions of biology and experience to the development of our traits and behaviors. Biopsychosocial approach - ANSWER Considers the influences of biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors. Applied research - ANSWER practical research- industrial organizational psychologists Hindsight bias - ANSWER The tendency to believe after learning an outcome, that we would have foreseen it. The I knew it all along phenomenon) Overconfidence - ANSWER Humans tend to think they know more than they do. Theory - ANSWER An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events Hypothesis - ANSWER Testable prediction Case study - ANSWER Examines one individual in depth in hope of revealing things true of us al