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4348632598	introspection	self observing of thoughts of sensation, and emotion, combining the two	0
4348632599	gestalt psychology	school of psychology concerned with perception	1
4348632600	structuralism	break down the conscious to analyze the simply parts	2
4348632601	functionalism	adaption to a persons environment	3
4348632602	elective approach	all of the approaches	4
4348632603	psychology	study of behavior and mental processes	5
4348632604	biopsychology approach	combination of biological, psychological, and social views of psychology	6
4348632605	nature-nurture	genes or experiences contribute more to traits	7
4348632606	humanistic psychology	focuses on the good in all people	8
4348632607	psychiatry	medical psychology and the prescription of drugs	9
4348632608	clinical psychology	study and application of psychology cure mental illnesses	10
4348632609	counseling	patient to Doctor contact that attempts to cure a patient	11
4348632610	social psychology	how we think, influence, and relate to others	12
4348632611	attribution	process of explaining people's behaviors	13
4348632612	foot in the door phenomenon	tendency for people who have agreed to a malarkey request to comply then with a larger one	14
4348632613	cognitive dissonance	we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent t	15
4348632614	conformity	adjusting to behaviors to a group standard	16
4348632615	prejudice	an unjustifiable attitude toward someone	17
4348632616	aggression	any physical behavior intended to hurt someone	18
4348632617	altruism	unselfish regard for the welfare of others	19
4348632618	bystander effect	the tendency for a bystander to be less likely to give help of others are present	20
4348632619	ego	demands of the ID, superego and reality	21
4348632620	id	satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives	22
4348632621	psychoanalysis	Freudian theory of personality that attributed thoughts and actions to unconscious motive and conflicts	23
4348632622	self actualization	psychological need that arises after backs physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved	24
4348632623	social - cognitive	interaction between people	25
4348632624	superego	internalized ideals and prices stands for judgment and future aspirations	26
4348632625	psychoanalytic	thoughts and action to unconscious motives and conflicts	27
4348632626	psychodynamic	influence of unconscious mind	28
4348632627	humanistic	inner capacities for growth	29
4348632628	peak experiences	being more aware of the world	30
4348632629	lack of ego defense	ability to recognize defenses	31
4348632630	repression	banishes anxiety arousing thoughts and feelings	32
4348632631	regression	anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage	33
4348632632	reaction formation	the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses	34
4348632633	projection	people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others	35
4348632634	displacement	sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening persons	36
4348632635	intelligence	ability to learn from experience	37
4348632636	General intelligence	underlies specific mental abilities	38
4348632637	intelligence test	assessing individual mental aptitude and comparing them with others	39
4348632638	aptitude test	predicts a future performance	40
4348632639	standardization	meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a standard group	41
4348632640	reliability	extent to which a test yields consistent results	42
4348632641	validity	test measure or predicts what it is supposed to	43
4348632642	spearmans General intelligence	g factor basic intelligence predicts our abilities in varied academic areas	44
4348632643	thurstones primary mental abilities	intelligence broken down into 7 factors	45
4348632644	golemans theory of emotional intelligence	interpersonal and interpersonal combined people with the highest IQs are more successful	46
4348632645	cognition	mental activities	47
4348632646	algorithm	logical procedure that guarantees solving a problem	48
4348632647	heuristic	simple thinning strategy that often allows us to makes judgement and solves problems efficiently	49
4348632648	encoding	processing information into the memory	50
4348632649	retrieval	the process of getting information out of the memory storage	51
4348632650	sensory memory	very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system	52
4348632651	short term memory	7 bits, 20 seconds	53
4348632652	long term memory	permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system	54
4348632653	storage	encoded information	55
4348632654	effortful processing	encoding that requires attention and concours effort	56
4348632655	Richard Atkinson and Richard shrifin	three stage processing model	57
4348632656	kohlbergs stages	pre conventional conventional post conventional	58
4348632657	longitudinal designs	same group of people over a time period	59
4348632658	cross sectional	multiple age groups	60
4348632659	piagets cognitive stages	sensorimotor pre operational concrete operational formal operational	61
4354804944	sensation	sensory receptors and nervous system receive	62
4354804945	perception	organizing and interpreting information	63
4354804946	bottom up	begins with sensory receptors and works up to the brains integration of sensory information	64
4354804947	top down	information processing guided by higher level mental processes	65
4354804948	absolute threshold	the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus	66
4354804949	difference threshold	the minimum difference between two stimuli	67
4354804950	transduction	conversion of one form of energy to another	68
4354804951	sensory adaptation	diminished sensitivity ads consequence of constant stimulation	69
4354804952	sensory interaction	the principle that one sense may influence another	70
4354804953	selective attention	the focusing of conciliation awareness on a particular stimulus	71
4354804954	cerebral cortex	divided into the four lobes thoughts and actions	72
4354804955	cerebellum	voluntary movements balance	73
4354804956	brain stem	breathing sleeping regulating heart beat	74
4354804957	hippocampus	memory	75
4354804958	corpus callosum	motor sensory cognitive performance	76
4354804959	thalamus	give the cerebral cortex motor and sensory signals	77
4354804960	hypothalamus	nervous and endocrine system	78
4354804961	acetylcholine	muscle contraction	79
4354804962	serotonin	arousal sleep mood hunger	80
4354804963	dopamine	movement attention	81
4354804964	GABA	seizures tremors	82
4354804965	norepinephrine	affects leaves of alertness	83
4354804966	endorphins	body's natural painkillers	84
4364505924	hindsight bias	tendency to believe after learning an outcome	85
4364505925	illusory correlation	the perception of a relationship where none exist	86
4364505926	Experimental condition	the condition of an experiment that exposes participants to the treatment	87
4364505927	statistical significance	a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred in	88
4364505928	basic psychology	study of psychology issuers by seeking knowledge	89
4364505929	applied psychology	study of psychological issues that have a purpose	90
4364505930	reliability	the Consistence of test scores	91
4364505931	validity	the ability of a test to measure what is was designed to do	92
4364505932	standard deviation	a computed measure of much scores vary around the mean score	93
4364505933	crossectional	individuals of different ages	94
4364505934	longitudinal	same participants over a period of time	95
4364505935	James Lange theory	the theory that our experience of emotions is our awareness of our own respond	96
4364505936	cannon bard theory	an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses	97
4364505937	Schacter two factor	to experience emotions one must be aroused and Cognitively label the arousal	98
4364505938	General adaption syndrome	pattern of general physical response that is the same form in responding to any stressor	99
4364505939	intrinsic motivation	the desire to engage in an activity for its own sake	100
4364505940	extrinsic motivation	the desire to engage in an activity to achieve a consequence	101

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