Weiten Psychology 7th ch 1 Flashcards
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| 389906375 | Applied psychology | The branch of psychology concerned with everyday, practical problems. | 0 | |
| 389906376 | Behavior | Any overt (observable) response or activity by an organism. | 1 | |
| 389906377 | Behaviorism | A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior. | 2 | |
| 389906378 | Clinical psychology | The branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. | 3 | |
| 389906379 | Cognition | The mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. | 4 | |
| 389906380 | Critical thinking | The use of cognitive skills and strategies that increase the probability of a desired outcome. | 5 | |
| 389906381 | Culture | The widely shared customs, beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations. | 6 | |
| 389906382 | Empiricism | The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation. | 7 | |
| 389906383 | Ethnocentrism | The tendency to view one's own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways. | 8 | |
| 389906384 | Evolutionary psychology | Theoretical perspective that examines behavioral processes in terms of their adaptive value for a species over the course of many generations. | 9 | |
| 389906385 | Functionalism | A school of psychology based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure. | 10 | |
| 389906386 | Humanism | A theoretical orientation that emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth. | 11 | |
| 389906387 | Introspection | Careful, systematic observation of one's own conscious experience. | 12 | |
| 389906388 | Natural selection | Principle stating that heritable characteristics that provide a survival reproductive advantage are more likely than alternative characteristics to be passed on to subsequent generations and thus come to be "selected" over time. | 13 | |
| 389906389 | Positive psychology | Approach to psyychology that uses theory and research to better understand the positive, adaptive, creative, and fulfilling aspects of human existence. | 14 | |
| 389906390 | Psychiatry | A branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. | 15 | |
| 389906391 | Psychoanalytic theory | A theory developed by Freud that attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior. | 16 | |
| 389906392 | Psychology | The science that studies behavior and the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems. | 17 | |
| 389906393 | SQ3R | A study system designed to promote effective reading by means of five steps: survey, question, read, recite, and review. | 18 | |
| 389906394 | Structuralism | A school of psychology based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and to investigate how these elements are related. | 19 | |
| 389906395 | Testwiseness | The ability to use the characteristics and format of a cognitive test to maximize one's score. | 20 | |
| 389906396 | Theory | A system of interrelated ideas that is used to explain a set of observations. | 21 | |
| 389906397 | Unconscious | According to Freud, thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on behavior. | 22 |