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| the scientific study of mind and behavior |
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| our private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings |
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| observable actions of human beings and nonhuman beings |
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| the philosophical 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 empathizes that we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts |
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| a temporary loss of cognitive or motor focus, 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 that empathizes the importance of 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 happen 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 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 psychological processes of their members |
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