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| scientific, systematic study of behaviors and mental processes |
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4) Influence |
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| thinking and understanding |
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| how organisms learn/modify behavior based on their response to enviornment |
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| how unconscious motivations and conflicts determine behavior |
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| each person has freedom in directing his future and achieveing personal growth |
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| how mental process help adapt to the enviornment |
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| learning rules of behavior |
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| Stages of Piaget and Cognitive development |
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1) Sensorimotor
2) Preoperational
3) Concrete Operations
4) Formal Operations |
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| organization and interpratation of sensory information into meanful experiences |
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| provides balance from inner ear |
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| sense that provides information about postion and movements about individual body parts |
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| messages presented below absolute threshold |
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| learning involving mental process resulting from observation and imitation |
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| learning when an action is reinforced or punished |
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| feeling a situation is uncontrollable after failures |
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| training to remove from an unplesant stimulus before it starts |
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| learning principals to change actions |
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| associations are made between natural stimulus and a learned, neutral stimulus |
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| training an organism to remove from an unplesant stimulus |
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| processes and works with current information, short term memory |
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| ability to remember visual information w/ great accuracy with limited exposure |
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| memory that identifys something not experienced before |
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| brief memory storage immediatly following intial recognition of a stimulus |
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| memory retrivel in which a person reconstructs previously learned material without aid |
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| new information replaces old information in short term memory |
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| mentally rearranging the elements of a problme in order to arrive at the orginal solution |
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| mental activity that involves changing and reorganizing information stored in memory to create new information |
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| tendency to correct imbalances and deviations from normal |
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| Ventromedial Hypothalamus |
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| belief that only observable behaviors should be proper subject matter |
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| concerned with consciousness, values, abstract beliefs |
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| inherited ideas, images or concepts |
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| retreating to an earlier stage of development in order to deal |
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| avoiding feelings of inadequacy rather than overcoming them |
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| unconscious personality that contains needs, drives and instincts |
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| part of the personality in touch with reality and strives to meet demands of Id and Super Ego |
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| source of conscience and inhibits |
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| interpretation of an event that helps determine its stress impact |
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| judging from an emotionally detached viewpoint |
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| recurring physical symptoms with no apparent physical cause |
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| a somatoform disorder preoccupied imaginary ailimenta |
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| inflexable ways of dealing with others and the enviornment |
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