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| The scientific study of the mind and behavior |
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| Our private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories and feelings |
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| observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals |
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| the philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge is acquired through experience |
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| the philosophical view that all knowledge is acquired through experience |
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| (now defunct) theory that mental abilities and characteristics are localized in specific regions in the brain |
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| the study of biological processes, esp. in the human body |
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| sensory input from the environment |
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| the amount of time taken to respond to a specific stimulus |
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| a person's subjective experience of the world and the mind |
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| the study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment |
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| Charles Darwin's theory that the features of an organism that help it survive and reproduce are more likely than other features to be passed on to subsequent generations |
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| errors of perception, memory, or judgment in which subjective experience differs from objective reality |
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| a psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts |
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| a temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions, usually as a result of emotionally upsetting experiences |
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| the part of the mind that operates outside of conscious awareness but influences conscious thoughts feelings and actions |
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| sigmund freud's approach to understanding human behavior that emphasizes the importance of unconscious mental processes in shaping feelings thoughts and behaviors |
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| a therapeutic approach that focuses on bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness to better understand psychological disorders |
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| an approach to understanding human nature that emphasizes the positive potential of human beings |
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| an approach that advocates that psychologists restrict themselves to the scientific study of objectively observable behavior |
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| an action or physiological change elicited by a stimulus |
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| the consequences of a behavior that determine whether it will be more likely that the behavior will occur again |
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| the scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory, and reasoning |
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| an approach to psychology that links psychological processes to activities in the nervous system and other bodily processes |
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| a field that attempts to understand the links between cognitive processes and brain activity |
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| a psychological approach that explains mind and behavior in terms of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection |
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| a subfield of psychology that studies the causes and consequences of interpersonal behavior |
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| the study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their memebers |
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