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The philosophy and school of psychology that asserts that people are conscious, self-aware, and capable of free choice, self-fulfillment and ethical behavior.
Humanism
The school of psychology that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human nature.
Psychoanalysis
Having to do with mental processes such as sensation and perception, memory, intelligence, language, thought, and problem solving.
Cognitive
A complete group of organisms or events.
Population
The man who popularized behaviorism and became President of the American Psychological Association in 1915. His aim was to show how most human behavior and emotional reactions resulted in conditioning.
John B. Watson
The view that people are free and responsible for their own behavior.
Existentialism
The view that focuses on the roles ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in behavior and mental processes.
Sociocultural Perspective
Referring to one's system of deriving standards for determining what is moral.
Ethical
A study in which neither the subject nor the observers know which has received the treatment.
Double-blind Study
Id, Ego, SuperEgo
Sigmund Freud
The school of psychology that defines psychology as the study of observable behavior and studies the relationship between stimuli and responses.
Behaviorism
Freud's theory which proposes that the motion of underlying forces of personality determines our thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
Psychodynamic
Looking into one's own mind to examine one's own thoughts and feelings.
Introspection
A specific statement about behavior and mental processes that is tested through research.
Hypothesis
Industry VS Inferiority, Autonomy VS Shame, Ego Integrity VS Despair
Eric Ericson
The school of psychology that emphasizes the uses of functions of the mind rather than the elements of experience.
Functionalism
The school of psychology that emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into wholes and to integrate separate stimuli into meaningful patterns.
Gestalt Psychology
The science that studies behavior and mental processes.
Psychology
A measure of an assumed effect of an independant variable.
Dependent Variable
Extraverts, Introverts, Individuation, and Archtypes
Carl Jung
The school of psychology that argues that the mind consists of three basic elements: sensation, feeling and image- which combine to form experience.
Structuralism
A school of psychology in the behaviorist tradition that includes cognitive factors in the explanation and prediction of behavior. Formerly termed "Social-Learning Theory."
Social-Cognitive Theory
A relationship between variables in which one variable increases as the other also increases.
Positive Correlation
A formulation of relationships underlying observed events
Theory
The person who described his views in the first modern psychology textbook, THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY.
William James