Psychology 2e Chapter 1.0
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1. Psychology the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
2. Scientific Method steps used by psychologists to acquire knowledge
3. Hypothesis tentative explanation about how or why something happens
4. theory the best understanding we have of that part of the natural world
5. observations information gather by carrying out an experiment to test hypothesis
6. Steps of the Scientific observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion
Method
7. empirical based on measurable data
8. empirical method based on observation, including experimentation, rather than a method
based only on forms of logical argument or previous authorities
9. late 1800s when psychology became accepted as its own academic discipline
10. social psychology is a ______ science
11. psychology one of the most popular majors in the United States
12. 6 ____% of all bachelors degrees in the US are awarded to psychology
majors
13. Wilhelm Wundt first psychologist
14. 1873 Principles of Psychological Psychology published in ______ by Wundt
15. introspection examination of one's own thoughts and feelings
16. structuralism early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used intro-
spection to reveal the structure of the human mind
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1. Psychology the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
2. Scientific Method steps used by psychologists to acquire knowledge
3. Hypothesis tentative explanation about how or why something happens
4. theory the best understanding we have of that part of the natural world
5. observations information gather by carrying out an experiment to test hypothesis
6. Steps of the Scientific observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion
Method
7. empirical based on measurable data
8. empirical method based on observation, including experimentation, rather than a method
based only on forms of logical argument or previous authorities
9. late 1800s when psychology became accepted as its own academic discipline
10. social psychology is a ______ science
11. psychology one of the most popular majors in the United States
12. 6 ____% of all bachelors degrees in the US are awarded to psychology
majors
13. Wilhelm Wundt first psychologist
14. 1873 Principles of Psychological Psychology published in ______ by Wundt
15. introspection examination of one's own thoughts and feelings
16. structuralism early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener; used intro-
spection to reveal the structure of the human mind
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