Psych Chapter one Vocab- Q1-

Applied Psychology

The study of psychological issues that have direct practical significance.

Basic Psychology

The study of psychological issues in order to seek knowledge for its own sake.

Biological Perspective

Emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts.

Cognitive Perspective

Emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem solving, etc.

Empirical

Relying on or derived from observation, experimentation, or measurement.

Evolutionary Psychology

A field of psychology emphasizing evolutionary mechanisms that may help explain human commonalities in cognition, development, emotion, etc.

Functionalism

An early psychological approach that emphasized the function or purpose of behavior and consciousness.

Humanist Psychology

Emphasizes free will, personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human potential

Learning Perspective

Emphasizes how the environment and experience affect a person or animal’s actions.

Psychodynamic perspective

Emphasizes Unconscious dynamics within the individual.

Psychoanalysis

A theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy, that emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts.

Psychology

The discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by and organism’s physical state and external environment.

Sociocultural Perspective

Emphasizes social and cultural influences on behavior.