Psychology Vocab Quiz 1 Flashcards
The study of mental process
Cognitive psychology
Consciousness
Awareness of ourselves and our environment.
Neural Impulse
An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
The inability to pull a word from memory even though tehre is the sensaion that that word is avaiable.
Gestalt Psychology
An attempt to study the unit of experience
Practicioner -scholar model
A model training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice
Individual differences
Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development.
Introspection
A method of focusing on internal processes
Psychophysics
Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli
Empiricism
The belief that knowledge comes from experience
the study of behavior
behaviorism
Scientists- practitioner model
A model of training professional psychologists that emphasizes the develop,ent of both researcha nd clinical skills
Eugenics
The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits.
Fuctionalism
A school of american psychoology that focused on the utility of consciousness
Realism
A point of view that emphasizes the importance of teh senses in providing knowledge of teh external world.
Structuralism
A school of american psychology that sought ot descrive the elemnts of consxious experience
Flashbulb memory
A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionaly significant event
