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Psych Unit 1 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Behaviorism | The scientific study of observable behavior (John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner) |
| Freudian psychology/psychoanalytic perspective | How the unconscious mind and childhood experiences affect our behavior (Id, Ego, Superego, etc.) |
| Humanistic psychologists | Focused on needs of love, acceptance, and environment |
| Cognitive psychology | How we process, store, and recount information which affects how we do shit and think |
| Psychology | The study of behavior and mental processes |
| Behavior | What we do |
| Mental processes | What we think |
| Nature | Genetics of the mind and shit |
| Nurture | Life experiences and shit |
| Biopsychosocial approach | The idea that biological, social, and psychological factors all influence shit (the combination of our genes, brains, and life experiences) |
| Neuroscience/biological | How body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences (as science-y as psych gets) |
| Evolutionary | The idea that shit's genetic and the way we think is how we had to think to survive (Darwin and stuff) |
| Psychodynamic | Effectively the same as psychoanalytic perspective |
| Behavioral | The same as behaviorism, the study of observable behavior |
| Social-cultural | The connection between a society's culture and the behavior of individuals within that society |
| Basic research | General scientific research |
| Applied research | Specific scientific research |
| Positive psychology | Focusing on someone's strengths to build purpose and love |
| Industrial-organizational psychology | Psychology in the workplace |
| Personality | Our characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
| Free association | Exploring the unconscious by getting someone to say whatever comes to mind when relaxed |
| Psychoanalysis | Freud's theory of personality from unconscious motives and then Freud's therapy of digging deep and stuff |
| Unconscious | Thoughts and stuff that are there that we ignore |
| Id | Completely unconscious, it's our unconscious urges |
| Ego | Mostly conscious, makes peace between the id and superego |
| Superego | Internalized ideals |
| Preconscious | Unrepressed memories, thoughts, and info that can be called from unconscious to conscious in seconds |
| Defense mechanisms | What Freud thought fought anxiety |
| Repression | Repressing or hiding anxiety-inducing stuff |
| Reaction formation | Switching unacceptable impulses to their opposites |
| Projection | Disguising threatening impulses by attributing them to others |
| Rationalization | Self-justifying explanations instead of acknowledging real, threatening, unconscious motives |
| Displacement | Shifting impulses towards a more acceptable target |
| Denial | Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities |
| Regression | Returning to an earlier developmental stage |
| Sublimation | Channeling urges to an admisable or productive outlet |
| Psychodynamic theory | Psychological forces underlying how we think and stuff, basically just more Freud |
| Projective test | Personality tests like the Rorschach ink blot ones |
| False consensus effect | Assuming one's own beliefs and stuff are more widely shared than they are |
| Humanistic theories | Supports personal growth and experiences, the idea that we're all individuals or whatever |
| Self-actualization | The top-most part of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs that leads to self fulfillment |
| Unconditional positive regard | Love and shit without any conditions |
| Self-concept | Someone's idea of who they are |
| Trait | People's patterns of behavior or disposition to feel and act in certain ways |
| Factor analysis | Clusters traits like outgoing and loud or whatever into groups like extraversion |
| Personality inventories | Larger questionnaires that assess several traits at once |
| CANOE/Big Five Theory | The big five personality factors/traits |
| Conscientiousness | How organized or reliable a person is |
| Agreeableness | How nice or easy to get along with a person is |
| Neuroticism (instability) | How instable a person is, their tendency to be anxious or worried |
| Openness (to experience) | How imaginative or willing to try new things a person is |
| Extraversion | How outgoing a person is |
| Social-cognitive perspective | Focuses on how people's observations of others influence their own choices and behaviors |
| Reciprocal determinism | The idea that behavior comes from the individual, cognitive processes, and the environment. Ex: Someone may be nerdy because they are naturally nerdy, because they hang out around nerds, and because they think about nerdy things |
| Internal locus of control | The belief that what happens to someone is determined by themselves |
| External locus of control | The belief that what happens to someone is not determined by themselves |
| Self | The individual as a whole |
| Self-esteem | How we value and perceive ourselves |
| Self-efficacy | Refers to one's belief in the capacity to complete a task |
| Self-serving bias | The tendency to attribute success to ourselves and failure to other factors |
| Floccinaucinihilipilification | The action or habit of estimating something as worthless |
| Psychoceramics | The study of crackpots (not real) |
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