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| The science of mental processes and behavior |
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| What the brain does when a person store, recalls, or uses information or has specific feelings. |
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| the outwardly observable acts of an individual |
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| events that involve the structure and properties of the organ itself--brain cells and their connections, the chemical soup in which they exist, and the genes. |
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| events that involve the nature of beliefs, desires, and feelings-the content of the mind, not just its internal mechanics |
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| events that involve relationships between peoples (love, competition, and cooperation), relationships among groups and culture. |
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the school of psychology that sought to identify the basic elements of experience and to describe the rules and circumstances under which these elements combined to form mental structures.
what mental processes are and how they operate.
wilhelm wundt. edward titchener. |
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the process of looking within
(recalling how man windows are in the living room...seeing it in a mental image) |
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school of psychology that sought to understand how the mind helps individuals function, or adapt to the world
why humans think, feel, and behave as we do.
charles darwin. have more offspring...adaptations. |
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an approach to understanding mental processes that focuses on the idea that the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
max wertheimer. much of the content of our thoughts comes from what we perceive and further from inborn tendencies to structure what we see in certain ways. |
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| outside conscious awareness and not able to be brought to consciousness at will. |
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| a theory of how thoughts and feeling affect behavior; refers to the continual push and pull interaction among concious and unconscious forces. (OCD) |
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| the school of psychology that focuses on how a specific stimulus (object,person, or event) evokes a specific response (behavior in reaction to the stimulus) |
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| the school of psychology that assumes people have positive value, free will, and deep inner creativity, the combination of which leads them to choose life-fulfilling paths to personal growth. |
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| the approach in psychology that attempts to characterize how information is stored and operated on internally. (information processing..mental processes are the software, the brain is like the hardware) |
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| a blending of cognitive psychology and neuroscience (the study of the brain) that aims to specify how the brain stores and processes information. |
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| the approach in psychology that assumes that certain cognitive strategies and goals are so important that natural selection has built them into our brains. |
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| the type of psychologist who provides psychotherapy and is trained to administer and interpret psychological tests. |
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| the process of helping clients learn to change so they can cope with troublesome thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. |
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| the type of psychologist who is trained to help people with issues that naturally arise during the course of life. |
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| a physician who focuses on mental disorders; unlike psychologists, psychiatrists can prescribe drugs, but they are not trained to administer and interpret psychological test, not are they trained to interpret and understand psychological research. |
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| a mental health professional who use psychotherapy to help families(and individuals) and teaches clients to use the social service systems in their communities |
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| a nurse with a master's degree and a clinical specialization in psychiatric nursing who provides psychotherapy and works with medical doctors to monitor and administer medications. |
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| the type of psychologist who focuses on teaching and conducting research |
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| studies how to improve products and procedures and conducts research to help solve specific practical problems. |
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| specifying a problem, systematically observing events, forming a hypothesis of the relation between variables, collecting new observations to test the hypothesis, using such evidence to formulate and support a theory, and finally testing the theory. |
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| collecting the same observations or measurements and finding the same results as were found previously |
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| an aspect of a situation that can vary, or change, specifically a characteristic of a substance, quantity or entity that is measurable |
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| a tentative idea that might explain a set of observations. |
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| a definition of a variable that specifies how it is measured or manipulated |
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| and interlocking set of principles that explain a set of observations |
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| an expectation about specific events that should occur in particular circumstances if the theory or hypothesis is correct. |
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| a scientific study that focuses on a single instance of a situation, examining it in detail. |
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| a set of questions, typically about beliefs, attitudes, preferences, or acitivities |
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| an index of how closely interrelated two sets of measured variables are, which ranges from -1.0 to +1.0 the higher the correlation(in either direction) the better we can predict the value of one type of measurement when given the value of the other |
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| the aspect of the situation that is intentionally varied while another aspect is measured |
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| the aspect of the situation that is measured as an independent variable is changed; the value of the dependent variable depends on the independent variable. |
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| the difference in the dependent variable that is due to the changes in the independent variable. |
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| confound(or confounding variable) |
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| an independent variable that varies along with the ones of interest, and could be the actual basis for what you are measuring. |
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| a group that receives the complete procedure that defines the experiment. |
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| a group treat exactly the same way as the experimental group with nothing manipulated. |
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| technique of assigning participants randomly, to the experimental and the control groups so that no biases can sneak into the composition of the groups. |
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| a part of a study in which the participant receives the complete procedure that defines the experiment. Usually this is accompanied by a control condition with the same participants receiving both experimental and control conditions. |
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| a condition administered to the same participants who receive the experimental condition, this effectively makes the participants of both the experimental and the control group. |
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| a statistical technique that allows researchers to combine results from different studies which can determine whether there is a relationship among variables that transcends any one study. |
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| drawn from larger group and measured |
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| entire set of relevant people or animals |
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| reliable if the same results are obtained when the measurements are repeated |
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| valid if it does in fact measure what it is supposed to measure. |
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