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Unit 1 (Psychology’s History and Approaches) Vocabulary
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Directions: Place the number of the definition listed below (and on the next page) into the square with the
correct term. Check your answers by adding the numbers across each row and down each column. If you
have all the correct answers, you will get the same number for each row and column.
Psychology
Tabula Rasa
Introspection
Empiricism
Psychometrics
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Cognitive
Psychologists
Social-Cultural
Educational
Psychologist
1879
Functionalism
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Aristotle
Natural
Selection
Structuralism
Psychodynamic
Perspective
Behaviorism
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Applied
Research
Counseling
Psychologists
Psychiatrist
Wilhelm
Wundt
Humanism
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John B.
Watson
Evolutionary
Approach
William
James
School
Psychologist
Biological
Perspective
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1. An ancient Greek who said that our knowledge grows from the experiences stored in our
memories. He also believed that the soul was not able to be separated from the body.
2. This term means “blank slate”. Early philosophers believed that when we are born our mind
is a blank slate.
3.
A medical doctor who is licensed to prescribe drugs. He/she treats psychological disorders
by using psychotherapy.
4. The birth date of modern psychology. It was on this date that Wundt created the first
psychological laboratory.
5. This perspective studies how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory
experiences.
6. A branch of psychology devoted to studying the measurement of our abilities, attitudes, and
traits..
7. Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems.
8. This perspective addresses such issues as ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, etc.
9. First American psychologist and author of the first psychology textbook. He believed in
functionalism. He also tutored Mary Whiton Calkins to help her earn a Ph.D in psychology.
10. An updated version of Freud’s theory of personality. It attempts to provide insight
into one’s thoughts and actions by exposing and interpreting the underlying unconscious
motives and conflicts.
11. The founder of modern psychology. He believed that introspection was a good method to use
to study consciousness. He opened the first psychological laboratory.
12. The theory that emphasizes the purpose of consciousness and the ways consciousness helps
people adapt to their environment.
13. The founding father of behaviorism, the view that psychology should restrict its efforts to
studying observable behaviors, not mental processes.
14. The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to survival
will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.
15. Inward looking.
16. Works to improve course curriculum design, teacher training, and other aspects of education.
17. A Psychologist who tests IQs, diagnose students’ academic problems, and sets up programs
to improve students’ achievements.
18. The view that psychology should restrict its efforts to studying observable behaviors, not
mental processes.
19. The science that studies the behavior and mental processes of organisms.
20. A Psychologist who helps people cope with academic, vocational, and marital problems.
21. The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection.
22. The theory that analyzed the basic elements of thoughts and sensations to determine the
structure of conscious experience.
23. A broad-based philosophical position grounded on the fundamental assumption that all
knowledge comes from experience.
24. A perspective that focuses on how people’s needs for love and acceptance are met, the
individual’s freedom to choose, and the capacity for personal growth.
25. Their research focuses on mental processes such as thinking, remembering, and problem
solving.