Psychology 101 Flashcards

Flashcards covering key vocabulary from Psychology 101 lectures.

Neuroscience

The study of the nervous system and its functions.

Neuropsychology

Relationships between brain and behavior, emotion and mental processes.

Clinical Neuropsychology

Focuses on "dysfunction" and improvement of impairment related to the brain.

Functionalism (James)

Analyzing behavior in terms of function.

Psychoanalysis (Freud)

Analyzing feelings and behavior in terms of a product of unconscious processes.

Pseudoscience

Gives the impression that it is a science but instead is not measurable or not falsifiable

Structuralism (Titchener)

The structure of feelings

Independent Variable

The variable that is being manipulated by the experimenter

Dependent Variable

The outcome that is being measured by the experimenter

Evolution

Overall change in gene frequencies within a population

Natural Selection

Genetic variation depends on survival in changing environments (adapting)

Evolutionary Psychology

evolutionary drivers of behavior, emotion, cognition, and other psychological characteristics

Population

The large group of interest to the researcher.

Sample

A smaller group that represents the properties of the population.