The mental process involved in acquiring knowledge.
What is cognition
100
The use of cognitive skills and strategies that increase the probability of a desired outcome.
What is critical thinking
100
The tendency to view one’s own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways.
What is Ethnocentrism
100
Careful, systematic observation of one’s own conscious experience.
What is Introspection
100
The science that studies behavior and the psychological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge f this science to practical problems.
What is Psychology
200
A thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue
What is Stimulus
200
A system of interrelated ideas that is used to explain a set of observations
What is Theory
200
Any observable response or activity by an organism
What is behavior
200
The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation.
What is Empiricism
200
The branch of psychology concerned with everyday, practical problems and disorders
What is Psychiatry
300
He founded experimental psychology and the first experimental psychology laboratory
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
300
A school of psychology based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and to investigate how these elements are related.
What is Structuralism
300
A school of psychology based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure.
What is Functionalism
300
The widely shared customs, beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations
What is Culture
300
The illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession
What is phi phenomenon
400
A theoretical orientation that emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth.
What is Humanism
400
The ability to use the characteristics and format of a cognitive test to maximize one’s score.
What is Testwiseness
400
The branch of psychology concerned with everyday, practical problems.
What is Applied Psychology
400
A study system designed to promote effective reading by means five steps: survey, question, read, recite, and review.
What is SQ3R
400
A theory developed by Freud that attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior.
What is Psychoanalytical theory
500
According to Freud, thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on behavior.
What is Unconscious
500
Principle stating that heritable characteristics that provide a survival reproductive advantage are more likely then alternative characteristics to be passed on to subsequent generations and thus come to be “selected” over time.
What is Natural selection
500
A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior.
What is Behaviorism
500
Theoretical perspective that examines behavioral process in terms of their adaptive value for a species over the course of many generations.
What is Evolutionary psychology
500
The branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders.