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Flashcards by Greg MacPherson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Greg MacPherson
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| Question | Answer |
| Unit One - Module 2 Today's Psychology and Its Approaches | Today's Psychology and Its Approaches |
| cognitive psychology | The study of mental processes, such as occur when we perceive, learn, remember, think, communicate, and solve problems |
| cognitive neuroscience | The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition - including perception, thinking, memory, and language |
| psychology | The science of behaviour and mental processes |
| behaviour | BEHAVIOUR is anything an organism does - any action we can observe and record. |
| mental processes | MENTAL PROCESSES are the internal, subjective experiences we infer from behaviour - sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings. |
| nature-nurture issue | The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviours. Today's science sees traits and behaviours arising from the interaction of nature and nurture |
| natural selection | The principle that inherited traits that better enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment will (in competition with other trait variations) most likely be passed on to succeeding generations |
| evolutionary psychology | The. study of the evolution of behaviour and the mind, using principles of natural selection |
| behaviour genetics | The study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behaviour |
| culture | The enduring behaviours, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmited from one generation to the next |
| positive psychology | The scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive |
| biopsychosocial approach | An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural viewpoints |
| behavioural psychology | The scientific study of observable behaviour, and its explanation by principles of learning |
| biological psychology | The scientific study of the links between biological (genetic, neural, hormonal) and psychological processes (Some biological psychologists call themselves behavioural neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, behaviour geneticists, physiological psychologists, or biopsychologists) |
| psychodynamic psychology | A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behaviour and uses that information to treeat people with psychological disorders |
| social-cultural psychology | The study of how situations and cultures affect our behaviour and thinking |
| Charles Darwin | Darwin is famous for his scientific theory of evolution by natural selection. He argued that species evolve through adaptation which helps them to survive and reproduce. |
| Martin Seligman | An American psychologist who is a strong proponent of the positive psychology approach. |
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