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Insight
people’s understanding of their illness and in terms of understanding how the illness affects individuals’ interactions with the world
Semantic network
semantic network, or frame network is a knowledge base that represents semantic relations between concepts in a network. This is often used as a form of knowledge representation
Thorndike Law of effect
any behavior that is followed by pleasant consequences is likely to be repeated, and any behavior followed by unpleasant consequences is likely to be stopped.
Stimulation of hippocampus
biological basis for observational learning
levels of processing
Deeper levels of analysis produce more elaborate, longer-lasting, and stronger memory traces than shallow levels of analysis.
Transfer appropriate processing
showing that memory performance is not only determined by the depth of processing, but by the relationship between how information is initially encoded and how it is later retrieved
Parallel distributed processing
This theory also states that memory is stored by modifying the strength of connections between neural units
antroretrograde amnesia
a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused amnesia, leading to a partial or complete inability to recall the recent past, while long-term memories from before the event remain intact
sensory memory
Humans have five traditional senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch. Sensory memory (SM) allows individuals to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimulus has ceased.
Source monitoring
Source monitoring is an unconscious mental test that humans perform in order to determine if a memory is “real” and accurate as opposed to being from a source like a dream or a movie. … They are memory errors in which a specific recalled experience is falsely attributed to be the source of a particular memory.
Primary Circular Reactions (1-4 months)
his substage involves coordinating sensation and new schemas. For example, a child may suck his or her thumb by accident and then later intentionally repeat the action. These actions are repeated because the infant finds them pleasurable
positive disintergration
theory of personal development; These “disintegrative” processes are therefore seen as “positive”, whereas people who fail to go through positive disintegration may remain for their entire lives in a state of “primary integration”, lacking true individuality
egocentrism
inability to distinguish between self and another
humanistic approach
he humanistic perspective is an approach to psychology that emphasizes empathy and stresses the good in human behavior. … In counseling and therapy, this approach allows an psychologist to focus on ways to help improve an individual’s self-image or self-actualization - the things that make them feel worthwhile.
wundt
father of experimental psychology he believed consciousness could be broken down (or reduced) to its basic elements without sacrificing any of the properties of the whole.