Psychology 1110 - Ch. 1 & 2 Mastery Training Terms

mind

the brain and its activities, including thought, emotion, and behavior

introspection

a personal observation of your thoughts, feelings, and behavior

psychology

the scientific study of behavior, mental processes, and brain functions

philosophy

the discipline that systematically examines basic concepts, including the source of knowledge

natural sciences

the process by which survival and reproduction pressures act to change the frequency of alleles in subsequent generations

structuralism

an approach in which the mind is broken into the smallest elements of mental experience

Gestalt psychology

an approach that saw experience as being different from the sum of its elements

functionalism

a possible barrier to successful problem solving in which a concept is considered only in its most typical form