PSY2012 Chapter 1, PSY 2012 Chapter 2, PSY2012 Chapter 3 (with complete solutions)

psychology correct answers the scientific study of behavior and mental processes introspection correct answers personal observation of your own thoughts, feelings, and behavior philosophy correct answers the discipline that systematically examines basic concepts, including the source of knowledge physical science correct answers any science that studies nonliving matter, including physics, chemistry, astronomy, and geology behavior correct answers any action that can be observed dualism correct answers the idea that body and mind are quite different and separate, our bodies are physical, but our minds are something nonphysical and somewhat more mysterious monism correct answers the idea that mind and body are not separate, the mind is the result of activity in the brain empiricism correct answers viewed the mind as a "blank slate" at birth that was filled with ideas gained by observing the world structuralism correct answers an approach in which the mind is broken into the smallest elements of mental experience Gestalt psychology correct answers an approach to psychology that saw experience as different than the sum of its elements, breaking a whole perception into its building blacks would result in the loss of some important psychological information functionalism correct answers an approach to psychology that was behavior as purposeful and contributing to survival behaviorism correct answers An approach to psychology that features the study and careful measurement of observable behaviors Sigmund Freud correct answers Freud's psychodynamic theory Ideas about the unconscious mind, the role of experience in abnormal behavior and new approaches to therapy laid a foundation for later study in personality and therapy humanisitc psychology correct answers an approach to psychology that saw people as inherently good and motivated to learn and improve