History of Psychology Flashcards

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Behaviorism

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The study of behavior

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Cognitive psychology

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The study of mental processes.

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Consciousness

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Awareness of ourselves and our environment

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Empiricism

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The belief that knowledge comes from experience

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Eugenics

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The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits.

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Flashbulb memory

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A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event.

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Functionalism

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A school of American psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness.

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Gestalt psychology

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An attempt to study the unity of experience.

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Individual differences

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Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development.

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Introspection

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A method of focusing on internal processes.

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Neural impulse

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An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate.

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Practitioner-Scholar Model

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A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice.

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Psychophysics

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Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli.

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Realism

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A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the external world.

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Scientist-practitioner model

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A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills.

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Structuralism

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A school of American psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience.

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Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

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The inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that that word is available