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Cognitive Psychology |
A field of psychology that studies mental processes, including perception, thinking, memory, and judgment |
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Neuroimaging |
The use of various techniques to provide pictures of the structure and function of the living brain |
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Behaviorism |
A school of psychology that is based on the premise that it is not possible to objectively study the mind, and therefore that psychologists should limit their attention to the study of behavior itself |
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Culture |
A common set of social norms, including religious and family values and other moral beliefs, shared by the people who live in a geographical region |
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Data |
Any information collected through formal observation or measurement
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Evolutionary Psychology |
A branch of psychology that applies the Darwinian theory of natural selection to human and animal behavior
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Fitness |
The extent to which having a given genetic characteristic helps an individual organism survive and reproduce at a higher rate than do other members of the species who do not have the characteristic
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Functionalism |
A school of psychology whose goal was to understand why animals and humans have developed the particular psychological aspects that they currently possess
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Heritability |
The proportion of the observed differences on characteristics among people (e.g., in terms of their height, intelligence, or optimism) that is due to genetics
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Hindsight Bias |
The tendency to think that we could have predicted something that has already occurred that we probably would not have been able to predict
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Individual Differences |
The variations among people on physical or psychological dimensions
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Introspection |
A method of learning about psychological processes in which research participants are asked to describe exactly what they experience as they work on mental tasks
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Levels of Explanation |
The perspectives that are used to understand behavior
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Psychodynamic Psychology |
An approach to understanding human behavior that focuses on the role of unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories
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Psychology |
The scientific study of mind and behavior
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Scientific Method |
The set of assumptions, rules, and procedures that scientists use to conduct empirical research
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Social Norms |
The ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving that are shared by group members and are perceived by them as appropriate
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Social-Cultural Psychology |
A field of psychology that focuses on how the social situations and the cultures in which people find themselves influence thinking and behavior
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Structuralism |
A school of psychology whose goal was to identify the basic elements (or “structures”) of psychological experience
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