Chapter 1 phychology Flashcards

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Observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals.

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behavior

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Our private inner experience of perceptions thoughts, memories, and feelings.

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mind

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The philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn

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Nativism

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The philosophical view that all knowledge is acquired through experience

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Philosophical empiricism

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A now defunct theory that specific mental abilities and characteristics, ran ding from memory to the capacity for happiness, are localized in specific regions of the brain

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Phrenology

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The study of biological processes, especially in the human body

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Physiology

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Sensory input from the environment

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Stimulus

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The amount of time taken to respond to a specific stimulus

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Reaction time

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A person’s subjective experience of the world and the mind

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Consciousness

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The analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind

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Structuralism

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The subjective observation of one’s own experience

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Introspection

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He study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment

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Functionalism

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A temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions, usually as a result of emotionally upsetting experiences.

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Hysteria

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Signing Freud’s approach to understanding human behavior that emphasizes the importance of unconscious mental process in shaping feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.

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Psychoanalytic theory

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A therapeutic approach that focuses on bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness to better understand psychological disorders.

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Psychoanalysis

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An approach to understanding human nature that emphasizes te positive potential of human beings.

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Humanistic psychology

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An action or physiological change elicited by a stimulus

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He consequences of a behavior that determine whether it will be more likely that the behavior will occur again

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Reinforcement

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An approach that advocates that psychologists restrict themselves it the scientific study of objectively observable behavior

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Behaviorism

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Errors if perception, memory, or judgement in Which subjective experience differs from objective reality .

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The mind impose organization on what it perceives, so people don’t see what the experiment actually show a them

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Gestalt psychology

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The scientific study if mental processes, including perception, thought, memory, and reasoning

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Cognitive psychology

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Links psychological process to activities in the nervous system And other bodily process

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Behavioral neuroscience

Mises’ maze

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The field that attempts to understand the links btw cognitive process and brain activity

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Cognitive neuroscience

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To explain mind and behavior in terms of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection
Evolutionary psychology
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The cause Nd consequences of interpersonal behavior
Social psychology
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The study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their member
Cultural psychology
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When a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response.
Classical conditioning
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Something that reliably produces a naturally occurring reaction in an organism ただヨダレでる
Unconditioned stimulus (US)
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A reflexive reaction that is reliably produced by an unconditioned stimulus
``` Unconditioned response (UR) Food ```
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A stimulus that is initially neutral and produces no reliable response in an organism
``` Conditioned stimulus (CS) Sound of buzzers ```
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A reaction that caused by a sounds of the buzzer
Conditioned response (CR)
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Conditioning where the stimulus that functions as the US is actually the CS from an earlier procedure in which it acquired its ability to produce learning
Second-order conditioning
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The gradual elimination of a learned response that occurs when the US is no longer presented
extinction
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The tendency of a learned behavior to recover from extinction after a rest period
spontaneous recovery
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CR is observed even though the CS is slightly different from the original one used during acquisition
generalization
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The capacity to distinguish btw similar but distinct stimuli
Discrimination
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A propensity for learning particular kinds of associations over others,
Preparedness