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| The study of the mind and behavior. |
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| A field of study where its theories and methods are used by society to deal with individual and social problems. |
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| A professor, author of an intro to psychology text. |
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| Canadian professor, wrote "How to Think Straight about Psychology". |
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| Clinical&counseling, community, industrial/organizational, engineering, environmental, educational, consumer, legal, sports psychology. |
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| Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
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| German scholar, first person to attempt to divorce psychology from philosophy. |
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| Asked how the mind operates to enable us to adapt to our environment. |
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| Wilheim Wundt (1832-1920) |
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| The "father of psychology" by establishing the first experimental lab in 1879. Developed a technique of experimental introspection. |
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| Based on observations made in the private practice of Freud. |
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| A Viennese physician that pioneered psychoanalysis. |
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| Primal urges craving satisfaction in the human personality's struggle between competing forces. |
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| The calculating part of personality that tries to mediate between the id and the superego. |
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| The part of the personality that absorbs society's values in the form of a conscience. |
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| Behaviors can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings. |
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| Russian biologist that experimented with conditioning responses in animals (behaviorism). |
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| Potent events or circumstances in the environment that behaviorists see as crucial to understanding the conditioned response of subjects. |
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| Learned reactions to environmental stimuli that behaviorists believe can be measured in accordance with conditioned response. |
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| Conduct that is motivated by a series of rewards and sanctions. |
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| The ability of human individuals or groups to exercise meaningful direction over their destinies. |
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| Individual behavior where the vital question is not what happens inside but rather what happens on the outside. |
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| Behaviorist, focused on macro-level issues relating to social engineering. |
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| Theory of personality holding that untapped human potential includes a latent ability to adjust personality throughout our lifetime. |
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| Argued that personality remains a work in progress until we die. "Eight Ages of Man". |
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| Sense of personal dread, panic or inordinate fear. |
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| Someone feels inexplicably hopeless or sad for an extended period of time. |
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| Inability to break free from repetitive habits that can vary greatly. |
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| Excessive fixation on oneself that is seen as resulting from failure in youth to develop normal feelings of self-worth. |
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| Studying human behavior by emphasizing the role of subjective factors such as values and beliefs that affect the way we internalize information from our environment. |
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| Categorizing a group in an "out-group" as inferior to render them sub-human. |
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| Medical diagnosis of dysfunctional mental characteristics rendering subjects not in control of their behavior. |
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| State of mental agitation stemming from an exaggerated fear that someone threatening intends to harm them. |
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