Psychology Vocab Ch1

1. method of treating mental disorders, shaped by psychoanalytic theory, which emphasizes unconscious mental processes
4. a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.
5. a precise, testable statement of what the researchers predict will be the outcome of the study.
9. help psychologists to distinguish between typical and atypical behaviors and gain more accurate understandings of human and animal behaviors and thoughts.
11. Nurture is generally taken as the influence of external factors after conception,
14. a branch of psychology that deals with the effects of normal and pathological physiological processes on mental life.
15. Nature is what we think of as pre-wiring and is influenced by genetic inheritance and other biological factors.
16. a theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning, and conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment.
18. the study in psychology that focuses on mental processes, including how people perceive, think, remember, learn, solve problems, and direct their attention to one stimulus rather than another.
20. the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes.

1. a person who specializes in the study of mind and behavior or in the treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders
2. actions performed by an organism that can be seen and measured.
3. a medical doctor (an M.D. or D.O.) who specializes in mental health, including substance use disorders.
6. an attempt to foretell what will happen in a particular case, generally on the basis of past instances or accepted principles.
7. the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
8. the branch of science that deals with the biological basis of behavior and mental phenomena.
10. is the doctrine that what makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on its internal constitution, but rather on the way it functions, or the role it plays, in the system of which it is a part.
12. the process by which an individual's attitudes, beliefs or behavior are modified by the presence or action of others
13. All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
17. a movement in psychology supporting the belief that humans, as individuals, are unique beings and should be recognized and treated as such by psychologists and psychiatrists.
19. any attempt to understand phenomena related to intelligent behavior.