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| The scientific study of mind and behavior. |
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| Our private inner experience or perceptions, thoughts, memories and feelings. |
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| Observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals. |
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| The physiological view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. |
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| The philosophical view that all knowledge is acquired through experience. |
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| A now defunct theory that specific mental abilities and characteristics, ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness, are localized in specific regions of the brain. |
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| The study of biological processes, especially 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 analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind. |
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| The subjective observation of one's own experience. |
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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 judgement 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 sun of the parts. |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| A condition that involves the occurrence of two or more distinct identities within the same individual. |
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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 emphasizes the importance or 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 that 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 overtime 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 members. |
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