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Humanistic Psychology - answers A system of psychology that emphasizes the study of
conscious experience and the wholeness of human nature
Psychoanalysis - answers Freud's theory of personality and a system of psychotherapy
Cognitive Psychology - answers A system of psychology that focuses on the processes of
knowing, on how the mind actively organizes experiences
Personalistic Theory - answers The view that progress and change in scientific history are
attributable to the ideas of unique individuals
Naturalistic Theory - answers The view that progress and change in scientific history are
attributable to the Zeitgeist, which make a culture receptive to some ideas but not to others
School of Thought - answers A group of psychologists who become associated ideologically,
and sometimes geographically, with the leader of a movement
Zeitgeist - answers The intellectual and cultural climate or spirit of the times
Histiography - answers The principles, methods, and philosophical issues of historical research
Mechanism - answers The doctrine that natural processes are mechanically determined and
capable of explanation by the laws of physics and chemistry
Determinism - answers The doctrine that acts are determined by past events
Reductionism - answers The doctrine that explains phenomena on one level (such as complex
ideas) in terms of phenomena on another level (such as simple ideas), ex: disassemble a clock to
see how it works, springs/gears
Empiricism - answers The pursuit of knowledge through the observation of nature and the
attribution of all knowledge to experience
Mind-Body problem - answers The question of the distinction between mental and physical
qualities
, Relax Action Theory - answers The idea that an external object (stimulus) can bring about an
involuntary response
Derived Ideas - answers Produced by the direct application an external stimulus (the idea of the
bell or a tree)
Structuralism - answers Tichener's system of psychology, which dealt with conscious experience
as dependent on experiencing persons
Functionalism - answers A system of psychology concerned with the mind as it is used in an
organisms adaptation to its environment
Behaviourism - answers Watson's science of behaviour, which dealt solely with observable acts
that could be described in objective terms
Gestalt Psychology - answers A system of psychology that focuses largely on learning and
perception, suggesting that combining sensory elements produces new patterns with properties
that did not exist in the individual element
Innate Ideas - answers Arise from mind or consciousness, independent of sensory experiences
or external stimuli, ex: God, the self, perfection, infinity)
Positivism - answers The doctrine that recognizes only natural phenomena or facts that are
objectively observable
Materialism - answers The doctrine that considers the facts of the universe to be sufficiently
explained in physical terms by the existence and nature of matter
Simple Ideas - answers Elemental ideas that arise from sensations and reflection
Complex Ideas - answers Derived ideas that are compounded of simple ideas and thus can be
analyzed or reduced to their simpler components
Association - answers The notion that knowledge results from linking or associating simple
ideas to form complex ideas
Primary Qualities - answers Characteristics such as size and shape that exist in an object
whether or not we perceive them