Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- Behaviorism
- The study of behavior.
- Cognitive psychology
- The study of mental processes.
- Consciousness
- Awareness of ourselves and our environment.
- Empiricism
- The belief that knowledge comes from experience.
- Eugenics
- The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits.
- Flashbulb memory
- A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event.
- Functionalism
- A school of American psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness.
- Gestalt psychology
- An attempt to study the unity of experience.
- Individual differences
- Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development.
- Introspection
- A method of focusing on internal processes.
- Neural impulse
- An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate.
- Practitioner-Scholar Model
- A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice.
- Psychophysics
- Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli.
- Realism
- A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the external world.
- Scientist-practitioner model
- A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills.
- Structuralism
- A school of American psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience.
- Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
- The inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that that word is available.
