Basics
The scientific study of the mind and behavior.
What is psychology?
A statement of the result a researcher expects.
What is a hypothesis?
Mental processes such as thinking, remembering, or problem-solving.
What is cognition?
Feelings that involve a bodily response and cognitive labeling.
What are emotions?
The ability to empathize with others and understand social norms.
What is social awareness?
The ability to recognize your own emotions and thoughts and their influence on behavior.
What is self-awareness?
Acquiring knowledge through observation.
What is empirical research?
Related to thinking
What is cognitive?
Actions that are observable, like talking, fidgeting, or facial expressions.
What is behavior?
The ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships.
What are relationship skills?
The ability to regulate your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in different situations.
What is self-management?
A research method where subjects are studied without knowing they are being observed.
What is naturalistic observation?
Related to the brain, neurons, hormones, and genes.
What is biological?
What we see, hear, smell, taste, or feel through our senses
What is perception?
Making respectful and constructive choices about personal and social behavior
What is responsible decision-making?
A general framework for scientific study that explains observed data.
What is a theory?
Information collected by psychologists to test a theory.
What is data?
The ability to reflect and interpret what’s happening internally.
What is self-awareness?
A heightened bodily response interacting with a mental interpretation.
What is emotion?
Related to groups of people.
What is social?
When research findings are directly applied to solve real-world problems
What is applied psychology?
When an educated guess is supported or rejected based on study results.
What is testing a hypothesis?
The thoughts, memories, judgments, and subconscious mental processing that occur in the mind.
What is cognition?
Observable evidence of what’s happening in the mind.
What is behavior?
Related to a special group with shared values, customs, beliefs, and identity
What is cultural?