AP Psych - Meyers Unit 1

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an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind.

a branch of psychology that studies the links between biological (including neuroscience and behavior genetics) and psychological processes.

the study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection

the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.

the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes.

the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation

the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method.

the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language).