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| The study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of different organisms |
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| The reading of a person's character in their physical features |
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| The measurement of the physical dimensions of the skull |
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| One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind |
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| Surgically removing small parts of an animals brain and observing behavior |
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| Speech debility resulting from damage to the frontal lobe |
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| sensory-motor organization |
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| Stimulation to points in the motor strip elicits specific movements on the opposite side of the body |
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| An impairment of the frontal lobe that occurs as a result of a number of diseases as well as head trauma |
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| an impairment of the temporal lobe that occurs as a result of a number of diseases as well as head trauma |
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| A disorder that is manifested by the total or partial loss of vision in eyes that are organically normal |
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| The capacity of any part of the brain to carry out functions lost by damage to other parts of the brain |
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| The efficiency of performance of an entire complex function may be reduced in proportion to the extent of brain injury |
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| A temporal region who stimulation produces interpretive responses and experiential responses |
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| A state induced by Mesmer in which experiences of twitching and convulsions when subsided seemingly cured more terrible symptoms |
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| The previously used term to describe animal magnetism |
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| Every person's body is filled with and surrounded by a magnetic force field |
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| The process of using a supposed magnetic force to cure various symptoms in suffering patients. |
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| A trance-like version of a crisis state |
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| A trance-like version of a crisis state |
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| A new name for mesmerism, later changed to hypnotism |
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| The process whereby a social group is divided into two opposing sub-groups with fewer members remaining neutral |
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| Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic |
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| law of mental unity of crowds |
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| The work of Gustave Le Bon illuminating many unconcious social phenomena |
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| The idea of a group superorganism going beyond the combined reactions of it's individual members |
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| The notion that groups or crowds could constitute group minds |
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| Behavioral or attitudinal compliance with recognized social patterns or standards |
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| Holding two or more actively conflicting beliefs |
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| The venting of suppressed emotions to cure hysterical symptoms |
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| An array of experiences from detachment from surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experiences |
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| Patients suffer from neurological symptoms without a definable organic cause |
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| Reliving an experience in order to purge it of its emotional excesses |
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| Therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements |
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| Unconsciously assigning to others feelings and attitudes associated with significance in one's early life |
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| Investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea |
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| Defective performance of purposive acts, such as a slip of the tongue |
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| Letting a patients thoughts run free |
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| Patients blocking memories from conscious memory |
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| The psychological attempt to repel one's own desires and impulses by excluding the desire from consciousness |
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| The satisfaction of a desire through an involuntary thought process |
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| A repressed memory of an early childhood sexual abuse is the essential precondition for hysteria |
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| A set of developmental stages of sexuality that are passed through on the way to sexual maturity |
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| A defense mechanism leading to the temporary reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development rather than handling unacceptable impulses in a more adult way |
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| Overemphasis of a specific sexual stage |
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| An image of the perfect self towards which the ego should aspire |
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| Psychological strategies brought into play by the unconscious mind to distort reality to maintain an acceptable self-image |
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| The drive towards death, self-destruction and the return to the inorganic |
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| A treatise on the prosecution of witches |
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| eliminate imprisonment and replace with empathetic support |
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| Concerned with the assessment and treatment of mental illness and disability |
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| The study of what makes people unique and the consistencies in people's behavior across time and situations |
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| The process by which a behavior shifts from being a means to an end to being an end in itself |
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| thematic apperception test |
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| A projective test designed to reveal a person's social drives or needs by their interpretation of a series of pictures of emotionally ambiguous situations |
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| American Psychological Association |
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| The largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the U.S |
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| APA Guide to Professional Ethics |
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| The ethical guidelines for american psychologistts |
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| A training model for graduate programs that aspires to train psychologists with a foundation of research and scientific practice |
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| The intersection between psychology and the criminal justice system |
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| industrial / organizational psychology |
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| The intersection between psychology and the business world |
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| Imitation of the actual working environment |
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| Facts provided or learned about something or someone |
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| an iterative problem solving strategy based on feedback loops |
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| Imitation of actual mental process |
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| a set of instructions for solving a problem |
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| Capacities of machines to mimic human thought process |
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| The more something is repeated the less time it takes to complete it |
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| learning that can occur incidentally without immediate reinforcement |
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| behavior that "operates" on the environment or is controllable by the individual |
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| the established formal designation for B. F. Skinner's philosophy of the science of behavior |
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| responses that produce a good effect become more likely to occur again in that situation |
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| schedules of reinforcement |
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| Rewarding behavior on a specific interval |
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| The brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies |
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| certain combinations of spacing and timing of still images can cause sensation of motion |
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| sudden mental recognition of a solution |
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| break in conscious problem solving that results in illumination |
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| Learning that comes from a particular relationship but generalizes to other contexts |
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| looking at indirect or circuitous solutions as the most direct solution is blocked |
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| rigidity in problem solving due to inability to see new uses for an object |
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| tendency to approach situations the same way because that way worked in the past |
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