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| the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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| formulations of apparent relationships among observed events; allows us to derive explanations and predictions |
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| basic; has no immediate application to personal or social problems |
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| designed to find solutions to specific person or social problems |
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| careful examination of one's own thoughts and emotions |
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| the school of psychology that argues that the mind consists of 3 basic elements- sensations, feelings, and images - that form from experience |
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| the school of psychology that emphasizes the uses or functions of the mind rather than the elements of experience |
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| the school of psychology that defines psychology as the study of observable behavior and studies the relationships between stimuli and responses |
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| a stimulus that follows a response and increases the frequency of response |
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| the school of psychology that emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into wholes and to integreate separate stimuli into meaningful patterns |
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| in gestalt psychology; the suddent reorganization of perceptions, allowing the sudden solution of a problem |
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| the school of psychology that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior |
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| referring to freud's theory- propses that the motion of underlying forces of personality determines our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors |
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| the basic building blocks of heredity |
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| an inborn pattern of behavior that is triggered by a particular stimulus |
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| having to do with mental processes such as senation and perception, memory, intelligence, language, thought, and problem solving |
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| the school of psychology that asserts that people are conscious, self-awware, and capable of free choice, self-fulfillment, and ethical behavior |
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| the view that people are free and responsible for their own behavior |
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| a school of psychology in the behaviorist tradition that includes cognitives factors in the explanation and prediction of behavior |
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| the use of mental processes to perceive and mentally represent the world, think, and engage in problem solving and decision making |
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| the view that focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in behavior and mental processes. |
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| a group characterized by common features such as cultural heritage, history, race, and language |
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| the culturally define concepts of culinity and femininity |
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| a mathematical method of determining whether one variable increases or descreases as another variable increases or decreases |
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| a specific statement about behavior or mental processes that is tested through research |
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| an association or relationship among variables |
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| a source of bias that may occur in research findings when subjects are allowed to choose for themselves a certain treatment in a scientific study |
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| to extend from the particular to the general, to apply observations based on a sample to a population |
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| a complete group of organisms or events |
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