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| The scientific study of mind and behavior |
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| The tendency to think that we could have predicted something that has already occurred that we probably would have not been able to predict |
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| A set of assumptions, rules, and procedures scientists use to conduct experiments |
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| Biological Level of Explanation |
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| Lower level; genes, neurons, neurotransmitters, and hormones |
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| Interpersonal Level of Explanation |
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| Middle level; the abilities and characteristics of individual people |
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| Social/Cultural Level of Explanation |
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| Highest level; social groups, organizations, and cultures |
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| Psychodynamic Perspective |
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| Focuses on the role of unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories. |
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| Psychodynamic psychologist who believed painful childhood experiences were the root of all problems or patients early sexual experiences and sexual desires |
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| Limits the attention to the study of behavior itself. Learning explains all behavior. Watson & Pavlov - stimuli and response |
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| Studies metal process including perception, thinking, memory, and judgement. |
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| Cognitive psychologist - studies remembering lists of words |
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| Cognitive psychologist - memory influenced by what we already know |
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| Applies natural selection to human and animal behavior |
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| Human judgement is compromised by our mistakes in thinking |
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| Free will vs. determinism |
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| You choose your behavior or your behavior is guided by outside forces |
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| Conscious vs. Unconscious Processing |
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| To what extent do we know what we do |
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| Asking research participants to describe exactly what they experience as they work on mental tasks |
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| Western Culture - valuing the self and one's independence from others |
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| East Asian Culture - Developing harmonious social relationships with others |
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