Ch 1 - Intro 2 Psych

Mind

private inner experience (how we think and perceive the world)

Behavior

observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals (what we see and how we represents ourselves)

Psychology

the scientific study of the mind and behavior

Nativism

certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn (Plato)

Nature

biological endowment

Philosophical Empiricism

all knowledge is acquired through experience (Aristotle)

Nurture

environments influence our development (physical and social environments)

Functionalism

study how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environments

William James

believed in functionalism: intelligence based on adaptability, how mind functions, compared individual difference, etc

Structuralism

analyze the mind by breaking it down into its basic components

Wilhelm Wundt

believed in structuralism

Consciousness

a persons subjective experience of the world and the mind

Introspection

the subjective observation of one's own experience