Cognitive Approach to Psychology Vocabulary

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  1. 3. When a schema is triggered by a stimulus or situation
  2. 4. Suggests thinking involves both fast, intuitive processes and slow, deliberate ones
  3. 6. A model of memory including sensory, short-term, and long-term stores
  4. 8. Mental processes such as thinking, learning, and memory
  5. 9. Viewing psychological phenomena as wholes rather than isolated parts
  6. 10. The cognitive process of selecting a course of action among alternatives
  7. 11. A consequence that increases the likelihood of a behavior
  8. 13. A consequence that decreases the likelihood of a behavior
  9. 16. The idea that knowledge is organized into mental frameworks (schemas)
  10. 19. How people explain the causes of behavior
  11. 20. The manipulation of information to form concepts, solve problems, and make decisions
  12. 22. How well a study or test measures what it intends to measure
  13. 23. The part of the mind that operates outside of conscious awareness
  14. 25. Mental structures that organize knowledge and guide information processing
  15. 27. A system for temporarily holding and manipulating information
  16. 29. The theory that people define themselves by group membership
  17. 30. Learning by association between stimuli
  18. 31. Data gained through observation or experimentation
  19. 32. How well study results apply to real-world situations
  20. 33. How people understand and interpret others and social situations
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  1. 1. Beliefs and ideas a person holds about themselves
  2. 2. Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to align with a group
  3. 3. Oversimplified and generalized beliefs about a group of people
  4. 5. The process of interpreting sensory information
  5. 7. A schema for routine activities or social situations
  6. 12. Learning through consequences like reinforcement and punishment
  7. 14. Freud’s model of personality: instinct, reality, and morality
  8. 15. Unconscious strategies the mind uses to protect against anxiety
  9. 17. The concept that every stimulus evokes a specific response
  10. 18. Focusing awareness on a specific stimulus while ignoring others
  11. 21. Explaining complex behavior in terms of its simpler components
  12. 24. Freud’s method of interpreting dreams to reveal unconscious desires
  13. 26. The mental ability to store and retrieve information
  14. 28. A psychoanalytic technique of sharing thoughts without censorship