Exam 3: Psychology: Key Concepts and Thinkers

The school of psychology that emphasizes conscious experiences, including each person's unique potential for psychological growth and self-direction, is __________________ psychology.

___________________ focus was on the scientific study of observable behavior that could be objectively measured and verified.

The principle of stereoscopic vision is based on _________________

One important factor in the cognitive revolution was the development of the first ____________, which gave psychologists a model for human mental processes.

When a dog learns to salivate only to a bell and not to a buzzer, the process that has taken place is called ______________

_______________ is a point of view or general framework that reflects the emphasis a psychologist may take in investigating psychological topics.

The Austrian physician who emphasized unconscious processes rather than overt observable behavior was ________________.

French philosopher ____________________ proposed that the mind and body are separate entities.

Interpreting sensory information as meaningful pattern can be defined as_________________

Who said "An objective psychologist would be restricted to observing overt responses": ____________

The founder of Gestalt psychology was _________________.

________________ grew out of the pioneering work of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov.

Psychologists who study the diversity of human behavior in different cultural settings and countries are called _______________ psychologists.

Wundt's student _________________ established structuralism, the first major school in psychology.

______________ could not be used to study children or animals.

Another humanistic psychologist who developed a theory of motivation that emphasizes personal growth was _______________.

The common goal of functionalism and structuralism is an emphasis on the study of _______________.

The person credited with founding humanistic psychology is __________________.

The process by which an organism learn to make a particular response to a specific stimulus and to no other stimulus is____________________

___________________ is a specialty area that helps develop the instructional methods and materials used to train people in both educational and work settings and studies how people of all ages learn.