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29 Cards in this Set
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Psychology
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The scientific study of mind and behavior
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Mind
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Private inner experience made up of perceptions, thoughts, and feelings
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Behavior
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Obserable actions of human beings, and nonhuman animals
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Natavism
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certin kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn.
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Philosophical Empiricism
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All knowledge is aquired through experience
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Phrenology
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Specific mental abilities and characteristics, ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness, are localized in specific regions of the brain.
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Physiology
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The study of biological processes, especially in the human body.
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Stimulus
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Sensory input from the environment
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Reaction Time
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The amount of time taken to respond to a stimulus.
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Consciousness
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A persons subjective experience of the world and the mind.
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Structuralism
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The analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind.
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Introspection
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The subjective observation of ones own experience.
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Functionalism
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The study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment.
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Natural Selection
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The features of an organism that help it survive and reproduce are more likely than other features to be passed on to subsequent generations.
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Illusions
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Errors of perception, memory, or Jedgement in which subjective experience differs from objective reality.
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Gestact Psychology
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A Psyschological approach that emphasizes that we often percieve the whole rather then the sum of the parts.
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Hysteria
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Temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions usually as a result of emotionally upsetting experiences.
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Unconscious
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The part of the mind that opperates outside consious awareness but influences contious thoughts, feelings, and actions.
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Psychoanalytic Theroy
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An approach that emphisizes the importance of unconsous mental processes in shaping feelings thoughts and behaviors.
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Psychoanalysis
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Bringing unconscious material into consious awareness.
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Humanistic Psychology
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An approach to understanding human nature that emphasizes the positive potential of human beings
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Behaviorism
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Scientific study of objectively obserable behavior
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Responce
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an action or psysiological change elicted by a stimulus.
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Reinforcement
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the consequences of a behavior determine weather it will be more or less likely to occur again.
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Cognitive
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The scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory and reasoning.
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Behavioral neuroscience
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Links psychological processes to activities in the nervous system and other bodily processes
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evolutionary psychology
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Explains mind and behavior in terms of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection
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Social psychology
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the study of causes and consequences of interperosnal behavior.
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Cultural Psychology
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The study of how coltures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their members.
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