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| The scientific study of mind and behavior. |
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| Our private inner experience, the ever-flowing stream of consciousness that is made of PERCEPTIONS, THOUGHTS, MEMORIES, and FEELINGS. |
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| Observable actions of human beings and nonuman animals, the things we do in the world, by ourselves or with outhers. |
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| "scan" a living brain. Which part of the brain is active when one sees a familar face, reads a word, learns a new skill, etc. |
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| Nativism (Plato favored this) |
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| Certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. |
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| Philosophical empiricism (Aristotle believed) |
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| All knowledge is aquired through experience. |
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| How mental activity can be reconciled and coordinated with physical behavior. |
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Phrenology
(Franz Joseph Gall) |
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| Specific mental abilities and characteristics, ranging from memory to the capactiy for happiness, are localized in specific regions of the brain. |
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The study of biological processes, especially in the human body.
-Physiologist measured such things as the speed of nerve impulses. |
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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 mind.
-Wundt believed in this. |
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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 purpsoe mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment.
- James tried this and disagreed with Wundts idea that consciousness could be broken down. |
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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.
- Max Wertheimer had a sudden insight into the nature of illusion on the train. |
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We often percieve the whole rather than the sum of the parts.
-Wertheimer delevoped this. |
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A temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions, usually as a result of emtionally upsetting experiences.
- Jean-Marie Charcot / Pierre Janet developed this term. |
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The part of the mind that operates outside of conscious awareness but influences conscious thoughts, feelings, and actions.
-Freud |
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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 unconsciouness material in 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.
-Carl Rogers/Abraham Maslow |
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| Advocates that psychologists restrict themselves to the scientific study of objectively observable behavior. |
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An action or physiological change elicted by a stimulus.
-Ivan Pavlov experiment with dogs and sound.
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The consequences of a behavior that determind whether it will be more likely that the behavior will occur again.
-B.F Skinner, experiement with the rats |
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The scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory, and reasoning.
-Energized from B.F Skinners book. |
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An approach to psychology that links psychological processes to activites in the nervous system and other bodily processes.
-Karl Lashley experimented on rats brains and then put them in a maze to see their improvement or downfall. |
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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 pyschological processes of their members. |
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