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Psychology 1 & 7
This stack uses the social sciences book and contains words from Unit 3, 1 & 7.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| psychology | The study of how the mind and body work together. |
| psychologist | A person who studies the behaviors of human beings and the way the human mind works. |
| behavioral science | Systematic study of human behavior. |
| observation | Watching human behavior and writing down what is seen. |
| analysis | The breaking up of an even, or fact into smaller pieces in order to study it more closely. |
| social psychologist | A social scientist who studies how individuals behave in a group. |
| developmental psychologist | A social scientis who studies the many changes we go through as we grow. |
| experimental psychologist | A social scientist who studies the behavior of animals in laboratory settings. |
| classical conditioning | the pairing of a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus in such a way that they become indentified in a subjects mind and produce the same response. |
| stimulus | In conditioning, something that causes a response. |
| response | In conditionin, an action caused by a stimulus. |
| operant conditioning | the process of training a subject to perform a certain action by rewarding the subject when it performs the correct response. |
| shaping | A psychological technique used in training animals. |
| positive reinforcement | A reward given by the experimenter to the subject in operant conditioning after the subject performs an action desired by the experimenter. |
| negative reinforcement | A punishment given by the experimenter to the subject in operant conditioning after the subject performs an action that the experimenter does not desire. |
| trial - and - error learning | a method of learning by trying different ways of solving a problem until one works. |