psyc

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psychology

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scientific study of behavior and mental process

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consciousness

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is a person awareness of yourself and their surroundings

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difference threshold

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The smallest change in a stimulus necessary for a person to detect it at least half of the time

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sensory adaptation

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The tendency of a person’s sensation of a stimulus to decrease when the stimulus remains constant.

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selective interaction

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The idea that the senses can influence each other.
sensory memory

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selective attention

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When the brain pays more attention to one sensory channel than others.

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observational learning

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A type of learning that occurs as a result of observing others’ behavior and consequences rather than our own.

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latent learning

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A type of learning that has taken place but cannot be directly observed.

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learned helplessness

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The absence of any attempt to help oneself that results from previously learning that such attempts are useless.

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cognition

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What the brain does with information, including understanding it, organizing it, analyzing it, and communicating it.

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concept

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A mental representation of a category of similar things, actions, or people.

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heuristic

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An educated guess or rule-of-thumb method of problem solving.

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algorithm

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A formula-like method of problem solving.

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emotion regulation

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The ability to manage the type, intensity, length, and expression of one’s own emotions.

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clinical psychology

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• is an applied specialization in which psychologists focus on psychological disorders.
• Also do psychological assessment, including intelligence tests and personality tests, often to diagnose people with psychological disorders.

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cognitive psychology

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• is a perspective in psychology that emphasizes processes such as thinking, language, attention, memory, and intelligence.

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counseling psychology

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An applied specialization in which psychologists focus on improving the functioning of people who are struggling through difficult times in their lives.

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developmental psychology

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A basic research specialization in which psychologists focus on how people change throughout the life span.

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Educational psychology

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An applied specialization in which psychologists focus on learning and teaching.
ego

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forensic psychology

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An applied specialization in which psychologists focus on legal and criminal justice issues.

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neuroscience

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A psychological perspective that emphasizes the link between behavior and the biological functioning of the brain.

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personality

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A basic research specialization in which psychologists focus on people’s personality traits.

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social psychology

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A basic research specialization in which psychologists focus on how people think about, influence, and relate to each other.

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sensation

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The ability of the sensory organs to pick up energy in the environment around the body and transmit it to the brain.

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perception

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The ability of the brain to interpret the raw sensations it has taken in.

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short-term

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A limited amount of new information being held briefly until it is either discarded or encoded into long-term memory.

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long term

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A seemingly limitless amount of information being held for extensive periods of time.

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working memory

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A type of memory in which processing, or work, is done on briefly held information.

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explicit

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Memory of which one is consciously aware.

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implicit

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Memory of which one is consciously aware.

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divergent thinking

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A problem-solving strategy in which a person comes up with lots of different possible solutions

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convergent thinking

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A problem-solving strategy in which a person uses logic to deduce the single best solution.

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general intelligence

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Overall intelligence that applies across all tasks and situations.

Question 34

multiple intelligence