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Psychology Unit 1
Term | Definition |
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Psychology | The science of the mind or of mental states and processes |
Psychiatry | the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders |
Psychological | of or relating to physiology |
Cognitive | the mental process of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional process |
Introspection | Observation or examination of ones own mental state, mental process; the act of looking within oneself |
Applied Science | A discipline of science that applies existing scientific knowledge to develop more practical applications. |
Insight | An understanding of relationships that sheds light on or helps solve a problem. |
Basic Science | Does not necessarily have a direct application, fundamental |
Eidetic Memory | An ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory after only a few |
Behavior Modification | A scheduled approach that rewards desired behavior and "punishes" undesirable behavior. |
Shaping | Gradually molding or training an organism to perform a specific response by reinforcing any responses that are similar to the desired response. |
Primary Reinforces | no learning necessary for them to be reinforcing, natural. |
Secondary Reinforces | A situation in which a stimulus reinforces a behavior after it has been associated with a primary reinforce. |
Extinction | The gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior decreasing or disappearing. |
Generalization | A conditioned response starts occurring in response to the presentation of other, similar, stimuli, just no the conditioned stimulus. |
Discrimination | The ability to distinguish between conditioned stimulus and other similar stimuli that don't signal an unconditional stimulus. |
Feature Extraction | A cognitive process that matches info from a stimulus with info retrieved from memory. |
Selective Attention | Where the brain selectively filters out large amounts of sensory info in order to focus on one message |