Chapter 1 Adjusting to Modern Life Vocabulary / Definition Flashcards
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| 1170863899 | Narcissism | The tendency to regard oneself as grandiosely self-important | 0 | |
| 1170863901 | Psychology | the science that studies behavior and the physiological and mental process that underlie it, and its is the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to pratical problems | 1 | |
| 1170863904 | Behavior | observable actions of a person or animal | 2 | |
| 1170863906 | Clinical Psychology | The branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. | 3 | |
| 1170863908 | Adjustment | refers to the psychological processes through which people manage or cope with the demands and challenges of everyday life. | 4 | |
| 1170863910 | Empiricism | The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation | 5 | |
| 1170863912 | Experiment | A research method in which an investigator manipulates an independent variables under carefully controlled conditions and observes wheather there are changes in a second (dependent) variable as a result | 6 | |
| 1170863914 | Independent Variable | In a experiment, a condition or event that an experimenter varies in order to see its impact on another variable. | 7 | |
| 1170863916 | Dependent Variable | In an experiment, the variable that is thought to be affected by manipulations of the independent variable. | 8 | |
| 1170863918 | Experimental Group | the subjects in an experiment who receive some special treatment in regard to the independent variable | 9 | |
| 1170863920 | Control Group | subjects in an experiment who do not receive the special treatment given to the experimental group | 10 | |
| 1170863922 | Correlation | the extent to which two variables are related to each other | 11 | |
| 1170863924 | Correlation Coefficient | A numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables | 12 | |
| 1170863926 | Naturalistic Observation | an approach to research in which the researcher engages in careful observation of behavior without intervening directly with the subjects | 13 | |
| 1170863928 | Case Study | an in-depth investigation of an individual subject | 14 | |
| 1170863930 | Surveys | structured questionnaires designed to solicit information about specific aspects of participants behavior | 15 | |
| 1170863932 | Subjective Well-Being | Individuals' personal assessments of their overall happiness or life satisfaction. | 16 | |
| 1170863933 | Affective Forecasting | efforts to predict one's emotional reactions to future events | 17 | |
| 1170863934 | Hedonic Adaptation | the phenomenon that occurs when the mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness or unpleasantness of their experience shifts so that the neutral point, or baseline for comparision is changed | 18 | |
| 1170863935 | Overlearning | Continued rehearsal of material after one first appears to have mastered it. | 19 | |
| 1170863936 | Mnemonic Devices | Strategies for enhancing memory | 20 | |
| 1170863937 | Mind | thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions, memories, dreams, motives and other subjective experiences | 21 | |
| 1170863938 | Science | Science-an objective way to answer questions based on observable facts/data and well-described methods | 22 | |
| 1170863939 | variables | in an experiment, the variable that is thought to be affected by manipulations of the independent variable. | 23 |
