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Unit 1 N&P
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Applied Psychology | The branch of psychology concerned with everyday problems |
| Behavior | Any overt(observable) response or activity by an organism |
| Behaviorism | A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior |
| Clinical Psychology | The branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems |
| Cognition | The mental process involved in acquiring knowledge |
| Critical Thinking | The use of cognitive skills and strategies that increase the probability of a desired outcome |
| Culture | The widely shared customs, beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations |
| Empiricism | The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation |
| Ethnocentrism | The tendency to view one's own group as superior to others ans as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways |
| Evolutionary Psychology | Theoretical perspective that examines behavioral processes in terms of their adaptive value for a species over a course of many generations |
| Functionalism | A school p psychology based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness rather than its structure |
| Humanism | A theoretical orientation that emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, esp. their freedom and their potential for personal growth |
| Introspection | Careful, systematic observation of one's own conscious examples |
| Natural Selection | Principal stating that heritable character that provide a survival reproductive advantage are more aspects than alternative charac. to be passed on to subsequent generations and thus become "selected" |
| Positive Psychology | Approach to psychology that uses theory and research to better understand the positive, adaptive, creative, and fulfilling aspects of human existence |
| Psychiatry | A branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders |
| Psychoanalytic Theory | A theory developed by Freud that attempts to explain mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior |
| Psychology | The science that studies behavior and the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to pratical problems |
| SQR3 | A study system designed to promote effective reading by means of five steps: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review |
| Structuralism | A school of psychology based on that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and to investigate how these elements are related |
| Testwiseness | The ability to use the characteristics and format of a cognitive test to maximize one's score. |
| Theory | A system of interrelated ideas that is used to explain a set of observations |
| Unconscious | According to Freud, thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below that surface of conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on behavior |
| Gestalt Psychology | School of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole |
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