Week 1 Flashcards
Cognitive psychology
The study of mental processes.
Cognitive psychology
The study of mental processes.
Empiricism
The belief that knowledge comes from experience.
Eugenics
The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits.
Flashbulb memory
A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event.
Functionalism
A school of American psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness.
Gestalt psychology
An attempt to study the unity of experience.
Individual differences
Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development.
Introspection
A method of focusing on internal processes.
Neural impulse
An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate.
Practitioner-Scholar Model
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice.
Psychophysics
Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli.
Realism
A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the external world.
Scientist-practitioner model
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills.
Structuralism
A school of American psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience.
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
The inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that that word is available.
Wundt added a laboratory experience to his experimental psychology lectures.
What event, in 1879, established psychology as a science?
James, Hall, and Cattell were part of a group that embraced ______ Blank and was influenced by evolutionary theory.
functionalism
G. Stanley Hall
Who founded the American Psychological Association in 1892?
1900
By the year , there were more than 40 experimental psychology laboratories in the US and Canada.
His students gave self-reports of their reactions to stimuli.
How did Wundt study consciousness?
Ivan Pavlov advanced behaviorism by showing that behavior could be explained without reference to ______ Blank and was instead controlled by events in the environment.
the mind
the founder of clinical and school psychology
Who was Lightner Witmer?
the idea that all knowledge comes from experience
empiricism
