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Psychology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Structuralism | The analysis of the basic elements that constitutes the mind. Breaking down the conciousness into elemental sensations and feelings. |
| Introspection | The subjective observation of ones own experience. The kiss experiment. |
| Phrenology | A discredited theroy that specific mental abilities are localized in specific regions of the brain. Taken to an extreme. |
| Functionalism | The study of how functional processes enable people to adapt to their environment. |
| Psychoanalytic theory | An approach that emphasizes the importance of unconcious mental processes in shaping feelings, thoughts, and behavior. |
| Psychoanalysis | A therapeutic approach that focuses on bringing unconcious material into conciousness awareness to better understand psychological disorders. |
| Humanistic psychology | An approach to understand human nature that emphasizes the positive potential of human beings. |
| Behavioralism | An approach that advocates that psychologists restrict themselves to the scientific study of objectively observable behavior. |
| Reinforcement | The consequences of a behavior determine whether it will be more or less likely to occur again. |
| Illusions | Errors of perception, memory, or judgment in which subjective experience differs from objective reality. |
| Gestalt psychology | A psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts. |
| Cognitive psychology | The scientific study of the mental processes, including perception, thought, memory, and reasoning. |
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