Questions and Answers
1.sq3r
ANS survey, question, read, rehearse, review
2.example of biological perspective
ANS explaining how heredity and experience influences differences in
temperament; brain circuits that cause us to be red in the face
3.empiricism
ANS the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science
should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
4.structuralism
ANS an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore
the structural elements of the human mind (Titchener)
5.functionalism
ANS a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and
behavioral processes function-how they enable us to adapt, survive
and flourish (James)
6.experimental psychology
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, ANS the study of behavior and thinking using the experi- mental
method
7.behaviorism
ANS the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science, overt
that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most
research psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2)
8.humanistic psychology
ANS historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth
potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal
growth (Maslow, Rogers)
9.cognitive neuroscience
ANS the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with
cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)
10.psychology
ANS the science of behavior and mental processes
11.nature-nurture issue
ANS the longstanding controversy over the relative contribu- tions that
genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits
and behaviors. Today's science sees traits and behaviors arising from
the interaction of nature and nurture
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