The scientific study of mental processes and behavior.

Approach that views behavior as strongly influenced by the rules and expectations of specific social groups or cultures.

This figure taught that the highest form of thinking and reasoning took place in the heart.

A method of research that involves asking subjects questions about their feelings, opinions, or behavioral patterns.

The process of looking into yourself and describing what is there.

A group that represents a larger group.

Approach that views behavior as strongly influenced by physiological functions.

This figure inspired scientists to study animals in an attempt to understand humans better.

The factor that the experimenter manipulates or changes in a study.

Psychologist who believed that all humans have the potential and tendency to become great and achieve self-actualization.

A statement of the results that the experimenter expects.

Approach that views personality as based on impulses and needs in the unconscious.

This psychologist began the psychoanalytic approach of analyzing a patient’s hidden impulses with the help of a therapist.

The group that does not participate in the critical part of the experiment and may receive a placebo.

Clinical psychologist and therapist are possible careers for this type of psychologist.

A general framework for scientific study.

Approach that views human actions as the product of learning and associations.

This psychologist focused on observable behavior and believed humans are shaped by their environments.

A study during which neither participants nor researchers know to which group any subject belongs.

The process of making your own system by borrowing from two or more other systems.

A “medicine” that has no active ingredients and works by the power of suggestion.

Approach that emphasizes how humans use mental processes to handle problems or develop certain personality characteristics.

This psychologist studied the impact of learning on human emotion and believed that structured teaching could prevent most psychological problems.

Method of studying how specific individuals change and develop over an extended period of time.

The four ethical principles of experimentation.