Visual Psychology Flashcards

Flashcards based on Visual Psychology lecture notes.

Psychology is defined as __.

The science of behavior and mental processes.

Science is an __.

Approach to knowledge based on systematic observation.

__ refers to all of a person’s overt actions that others can directly observe.

All of a person’s overt actions that others can directly observe.

__ refers to the thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experiences privately, which others cannot directly observe.

Private psychological activities that include thinking, perceiving, and feeling.

The goals of psychology are to be able to __.

Describe, predict, understand and influence behavior and mental processess.

__ is a tentative explanation of facts and relationships in sciences.

Tentative explanation of facts and relationships in sciences.

A __ is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested.

A proposed explanation for a phenomenon that can be tested.

A __ is a strongly supported and widely accepted theory.

A strongly supported and widely accepted theory.

__ confirmed on his hypothesis that conscious mental life can be broken down into fundamental elements.

Conscious mental life can be broken down into fundamental elements, which then form more complex mental structures coherence.

__ is a psychological process that involves looking inward to examine one's own thoughts, emotions, judgments, and perceptions.

A psychological process that involves looking inward to examine one's own thoughts, emotions, judgments, and perceptions.

William James emphasized the __, practical nature of mind.

Emphasized the functional, practical nature of mind.

__ is learning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished, resulting in corresponding increases or decreases in occurrence.

Learning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished, resulting in corresponding increases or decreases in occurrence.

__ is an approach to psychology based on the proposition that behavior can be studied and explained scientifically without recourse to internal mental states.

An approach to psychology based on the proposition that behavior can be studied and explained scientifically without recourse to internal mental states.

In classical conditioning, __.

The stimulus (S) triggers the response (R) of an organism.

In Pavlov’s classical conditioning model, __.

The Unconditioned Stimulus (US) triggers the Unconditioned Response (UR).

__ is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principles of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies.

A theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principles of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies.

In Gestalt psychology, __ (the whole is identified before the parts).

The whole is identified before the parts.

__ is the tendency of ambiguous perceptual experiences to pop back and forth unstably between two or more alternative interpretations.

Tendency of ambiguous perceptual experiences to pop back and forth unstably between two or more alternative interpretations.

Invariance is a property of perception in which __.

Objects are recognized independent of their rotation, translation, and scale.

Psychoanalysis seeks __.

Seeks to discover connections among the unconscious components of patients’ mental processes.

In Freud's model of the mind, the __ is consisting of everything a person is aware of at a given moment in time

Consisting of everything a person is aware of at a given moment in time