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Chapter 1 (What are psychology’s main subfields? (Basic Research: Pure…
Chapter 1
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How did behaviorism, Freudian psychology, and humanistic psychology further the development of psychological science?
Behaviorism: the view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
Freudian Psychology: Focused on how the unconscious mind and childhood experiences effect our behavior
Humanistic Psychology: focusing on the needs for love and acceptance and on environments that nurture or limit personal growth
How has contemporary psychology focused on cognition, on biology and experience, on culture and gender, and on human flourishing?
Cognitive Psychology: The Study of Mental Processes such as occur when we perceive, learn, remember, think, communicate, and solve problems
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Nature-Nurture issue: the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experiences make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture.
Natural Selection: The principle that inherited traits that better enable an organism to survive and reproduce n a particular environment will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations
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Evolutionary Psychology: the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using the principles of natural selection
Behavior Genetics: the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior
Culture: the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
Most processes that happen in the brain, regardless of culture or gender, are often the same
Positive Psychology: the scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of discovering and promoting strength and virtues that help individuals and communities thrive
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