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The minimum stimulus energy need to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time
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1. in development psychology, adapting our current understandings(schemas) to incorporate new information.
2. in sensation and perception, the process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina.
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A desire for significant accomplishment, for mastery of skills or ideas, for control, and for attaining a high standard.
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A test designed to assess what a person has learned.
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| An evidence-based approach that draws on observation and experimentation. |
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| thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions appraises the source discerns hidden biases, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions. |
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| an early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Tuchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind. |
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| The view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2) |
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| humanistic psychology p.8 |
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| a historically significant perspective that emphasized human growth potential. |
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| the study of mental processes, such as occurs when we perceive, learn, remember, think, communicate, and solve problems. |
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| cognitive neuroscience p.8,81 |
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| the interdisciplinary study of brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language) |
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| the science of behavioral and mental processes. |
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| the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors, today's science sees traits and behaviors. arising from the interactions of nature and nurture. |
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| the principle that inherited traits that better enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment will (in competition with other trait variations) mostly likely be passed on to succeeding generations. |
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| evolutionary psychology p.8 |
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| the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection. |
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| the study of the relative power and limits of genetics and environmental influences on behavior. |
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| the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. |
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| the scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive. |
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| biopsychosocial approach p.11 |
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| counseling psychology p.13 |
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