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Vocabulary<\/h2>\n
\n \t
Behaviorism<\/dt>\n \t
The study of behavior.<\/dd>\n \t
Cognitive psychology<\/dt>\n \t
The study of mental processes.<\/dd>\n \t
Consciousness<\/dt>\n \t
Awareness of ourselves and our environment.<\/dd>\n \t
Empiricism<\/dt>\n \t
The belief that knowledge comes from experience.<\/dd>\n \t
Eugenics<\/dt>\n \t
The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits.<\/dd>\n \t
Flashbulb memory<\/dt>\n \t
A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event.<\/dd>\n \t
Functionalism<\/dt>\n \t
A school of American psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness.<\/dd>\n \t
Gestalt psychology<\/dt>\n \t
An attempt to study the unity of experience.<\/dd>\n \t
Individual differences<\/dt>\n \t
Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development.<\/dd>\n \t
Introspection<\/dt>\n \t
A method of focusing on internal processes.<\/dd>\n \t
Neural impulse<\/dt>\n \t
An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate.<\/dd>\n \t
Practitioner-Scholar Model<\/dt>\n \t
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice.<\/dd>\n \t
Psychophysics<\/dt>\n \t
Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli.<\/dd>\n \t
Realism<\/dt>\n \t
A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the external world.<\/dd>\n \t
Scientist-practitioner model<\/dt>\n \t
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills.<\/dd>\n \t
Structuralism<\/dt>\n \t
A school of American psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience.<\/dd>\n \t
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon<\/dt>\n \t
The inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that that word is available.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","rendered":"

Vocabulary<\/h2>\n
\n
Behaviorism<\/dt>\n
The study of behavior.<\/dd>\n
Cognitive psychology<\/dt>\n
The study of mental processes.<\/dd>\n
Consciousness<\/dt>\n
Awareness of ourselves and our environment.<\/dd>\n
Empiricism<\/dt>\n
The belief that knowledge comes from experience.<\/dd>\n
Eugenics<\/dt>\n
The practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits.<\/dd>\n
Flashbulb memory<\/dt>\n
A highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event.<\/dd>\n
Functionalism<\/dt>\n
A school of American psychology that focused on the utility of consciousness.<\/dd>\n
Gestalt psychology<\/dt>\n
An attempt to study the unity of experience.<\/dd>\n
Individual differences<\/dt>\n
Ways in which people differ in terms of their behavior, emotion, cognition, and development.<\/dd>\n
Introspection<\/dt>\n
A method of focusing on internal processes.<\/dd>\n
Neural impulse<\/dt>\n
An electro-chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate.<\/dd>\n
Practitioner-Scholar Model<\/dt>\n
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes clinical practice.<\/dd>\n
Psychophysics<\/dt>\n
Study of the relationships between physical stimuli and the perception of those stimuli.<\/dd>\n
Realism<\/dt>\n
A point of view that emphasizes the importance of the senses in providing knowledge of the external world.<\/dd>\n
Scientist-practitioner model<\/dt>\n
A model of training of professional psychologists that emphasizes the development of both research and clinical skills.<\/dd>\n
Structuralism<\/dt>\n
A school of American psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience.<\/dd>\n
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon<\/dt>\n
The inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that that word is available.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"back-matter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-52","back-matter","type-back-matter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/historyofpsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/historyofpsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/historyofpsychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/back-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/historyofpsychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/historyofpsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/52\/revisions"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/historyofpsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/52\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/historyofpsychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"back-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/historyofpsychology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter-type?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/historyofpsychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/historyofpsychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}