Psychology2016

Psychology in Action 1 Test Yourself Pick the best answer. Cody learns best whenever he can see things laid out before him. He ...

2 1 Watch the Video CC 1 Why study psychology? Psychology not only helps you understand why people (and animals) do the things t ...

3 1.7 Explain how researchers use the correlational technique to study relationships between two or more variables. 1.8 Identify ...

4 CHAPTER 1 The History of Psychology Some people believe psychology is just the study of people and what motivates their behavi ...

The Science of Psychology 5 of psychology. Philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes tried to understand or explain t ...

6 CHAPTER 1 TITCHENER AND STRUCTURALISM IN AMERICA One of Wundt’s students was Edward Titchener (1867–1927), an Englishman who e ...

The Science of Psychology 7 a guest only. Calkins eventually established a psychological laboratory at Wellesley College. Her wo ...

8 CHAPTER 1 perceiving* and sensing** could not be broken down into any smaller elements and still be properly understood. For e ...

The Science of Psychology 9 While some might think that Sigmund Freud was the first person to deal with peo- ple suffering from ...

10 CHAPTER 1 child, “Little Peter,” successfully conditioning Peter to be afraid of a white rabbit (Jones, 1924). She then began ...

The Science of Psychology 11 The Field of Psychology Today Even in the twenty-first century, there isn’t one single perspective ...

12 CHAPTER 1 PSYCHODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE Freud’s theory is still used by many professionals in therapy situations. It is far less ...

The Science of Psychology 13 SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Another modern perspective in psychology is the sociocultural perspective ...

14 CHAPTER 1 For example, research suggests that human sexual orientation may be related to the developing baby’s exposure in th ...

The Science of Psychology 15 how likely they would be to forgive either a sexual infidelity or an emotional one ( Shackelford et ...

16 CHAPTER 1 disorders. A psychiatric social worker is trained in the area of social work and usually possesses a master ’s degr ...

The Science of Psychology 17 There are many other areas of specialization: Psychology can be used in fields such as health; spor ...

18 CHAPTER 1 Practice Quiz How much do you remember? Pick the best answer. Which of the following perspectives focuses on the b ...

The Science of Psychology 19 PSYCHOLOGY’S GOALS Every science has the common goal of learning how things work. The goals specifi ...

20 CHAPTER 1 CONTROL: HOW CAN IT BE CHANGED? The focus of control, or the modifi- cation of some behavior, is to change a behav ...