Learning
The process of acquiring through experience new and relatively enduring information or behaviors.
What is learning?
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
What is personality?
The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.
What is Social Psychology?
A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
What is a Psychological Disorder?
Our subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is consciousness?
A type of learning in which a behavior becomes more likely to recur if followed by a reinforcer or less likely to recur if followed by a punisher.
What is operant conditioning?
A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
What is motivation?
The tendency for people to believe the world is fair and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.
An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events.
What is perception?
Learning through observing other people's responses to a stimulus (as opposed to personally experiencing the stimulus).
What is vicarious conditioning?
A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.
What are emotions?
Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications.
What is individualism?
Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.
What is Evidence-Based Practice?
The persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.
What is memory?
Any event or situation that evokes a response.
What is a stimulus?
In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
What are defense mechanisms?
The perception that one is worse off compared to those with whom one measures against oneself.
What is relative deprivation?
A perspective that focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
What is the Cognitive Approach?
A structured and arbitrary system of communication using symbols (like words or hand signs) that are arranged according to a set of rules (like grammar) to create meaningful expressions.
What is language?
Increasing behaviors by stopping or reducing aversive stimuli; any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response; is not punishment.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
What is reciprocal determinism?
The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.
What is Deindividuation?
A personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members; may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
What is Crystallized Intelligence?