NOBA history of psychology Flashcards
The study of behavior.
Behaviorism
The study of mental processes.
Cognitive psychology
Awareness of ourselves and our environment.
Consiousness
The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits.
Eugenics
The belief that knowledge comes from experience.
empiriciism
A school of American psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness.
Funcitonalism
A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event.
Flashbulb memory
An attempt to study the unity of experience.
Gestalt expiernece
Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development.
Individual differences
A method of focusing on internal processes.
Introspection
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice.
Practitioner scholar model
A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the
external wor;d
Realism
An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate.
Neural impulse
Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli.
Psychophysics
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both
research and clinical skills.
Scientist practitioner model
