Historical Perspectives Term Two Keywords

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Algorithmic level
implement theory, process
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AI
study of programmed systems that can simulate, to some extent, human activities such as perceiving, thinking, learning, acting
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Aphasia
inability to produce speech
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Agentive
the picture of human life as a collective activity in which individuals work with others to fulfil their intentions and achieve the projects according to rules and norms
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Absurdity
the search for answers in an answerless world
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Angst
anxiety of understanding of being free to possibilities and choices
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Applied psychology
use of psychological principles and research methods to solve practical problems
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Attentional overload
stressful condition that occurs when sensory stimulation, information and social contact make excessive demands on attention
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Architectural psychology
study of the effects buildings have on behaviour
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Applied research
designed to solve practical problems
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Bystander effect
diffusion of responsibility
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Brocas area
speech production and grammar
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B-needs
not due to lack of something, but desire to grow
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Bad faith
refusal to accept the absurd
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Biodata
detailed biographical information
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Basic research
conducted to advance scientific knowledge
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Blinding
groups do not know what is being tested or which group they are in
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Computational level
description, input/output, purpose, system, problems
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Cognitive models
abstract organisation ideas derived from inferences based on observations
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Central executive
directs attention to particular tasks
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Chronological age
actual age
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Conformity
a change in beh and/or attitudes and beliefs due to real or imagined pressure
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Compliance
publicly acting in a way you privately disagree with
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Cognitive dissonance
a state of psychological tension which motivates people to reduce it and resume cognitive consistency
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Connectionism
movement in cognitive science that hopes to explain intellectual abilities using abilities neural networks
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Causal
sum of interactions of individuals ‘mechanisms’ with each other and within the environment
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Cognitive constuctivism
emphasises the development of meaningful learning by focusing on the cognitive processes that take place within individuals
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Conditional positive regard
positive regard depends on behaviour that is viewed as acceptable
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Choices
our belief of what a person should be
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Clinical psychology
understanding, preventing and relieving psychology-based distress or dysfunction
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Critical incident
situations where competent employees must be able to cope
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Crowding
subjective feelings of being overstimulated by social input or loss of privacy
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Case studies
in-depth look at individual person
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Correlations
does not imply causation but instead predict possibility of cause and effect of relationship
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Deep processing
involved semantic processing, encoding meaning and relating to similar
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Discursive psychology
investigates how people practically manage psychological themes and concepts such as emotion, intent or agency within talk and text and to what ends
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Deficiency needs
arise due to deficiency and motivate people to fulfil them when they are unmet
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Double blinding
researchers and participants do not know which group they are in
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Episodic buffer
general store
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Essence
property, or set of, which make an entity what it fundamentally is
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Environmental psychology
study of humans and their interaction with their environments
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Empiricism
only source of knowledge comes through our senses (experience)
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Empirical evidence
data collected from direct observation or experiment
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Frontal lobe
speech and movement
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Forensic and legal psychology
application of psychological methods and principles to legal questions and issues
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Humanistic
studies the whole person, and the uniqueness of each individual
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Hawthorne effect
change of behaviours that are brought about through special attention to behaviour
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Implementitional level
physical realisation
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Individual difference
a stable human characteristic that varies between people
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Intelligence
related to learning from experience and adapting to one’s environment
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Internalisation
acting out and believing in the way you were pressured to do
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Informative innfluence
don’t have enough information, want to be right
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Idiographic
study the individual
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Ideal-self
the person we would like to be
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I-O psychology
application of psychology to the workplace
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Job analysis
detailed description of skills, knowledge and activates required for a job
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Leap of faith
act of believing in or accepting something outside boundaries of reason
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Model
a mathematical expression derived from a theory that can be used to summarise and predict empirical data
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Mental age
chronological age typical of a given level of performance
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Mental phenomena
interconnected networks of simple, often uninformed units
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Mock jury
group that realistically simulates a courtroom jury
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Non-conformity
going against the flow
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Normative influence
don’t want to stand out, want to fit in
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Neuroscience
scientific study of the neuron system
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Neuropsychology
study of the structure and function of the brain or they relate to specific psychological problems
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Normal anxiety
due to choices and growth and change that occur around them
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Neurotic anxiety
attempts to escape normal anxiety
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Nihilism
ultimate needlessness
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Noise pollution
stressful, annoying and intrusive noise
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Naturalistic observation
watching behaviour in natural environment
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Obedience
compliance with an order, request or law or submission to another’s authority
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Occipital lobe
vision
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Proactive inference
previously learned info effects new info
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Phonetic processing
maintenance rehearsal, encode the sound
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Phonological loop
controls auditory information- phonological store (ear), articulatory process (voice)
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Psychometrics
science of mental testing of test properties
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Parietal lobe
touch and sensation
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Peak experience
experience world totally for what it is
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Personnel psychology
concerned with testing, selection, placement and promotion
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Psychology
the scientific study of behaviour and mental processes
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Retroactive interference
new learned info effects previously learned info
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Rationalism
knowledge could be gained solely through the powers of reason and logical argument
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Semantic network theory
how information is stored in LTM
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Serial position effect
when you show better recall for items at the beginning and end of a list than for items in the middle
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Structural processing
when encoding is only of the physical qualities
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Social psychology
studies how beh and beliefs are shaped by the social context in which people are embedded
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Split brain
no connection between hemispheres
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Social constuctionism
examine the development of jointly constructed understanding of the world that form of the basis shared assumptions about reality
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Social constructivism
emphasises the development of meaningful learning by focusing on the cognitive processes that take place within individuals
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Self-actualisation
realising personal potential
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Self-worth
what we think about others
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Self-image
how we see ourselves
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Self-overcoming
the process by which great souled person (superman) overcome their difficulties to embrace whatever life has to offer
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Sports psychology
psychological factors that affect performance, physical activity and exercise and apply these to enhance individual and team performance
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Theory
Explanation of cognitive phenomenon based on a detailed description of the phenomenon that is derived from empirical evidence
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Temporal lobe
hearing and comprehension
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The concept of self
is an ideal that individuals do not ultimately achieve
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Therapy models
set of procedures to form a therapeutic alliance, explore nature of psychological problem and overcoming these
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Unconditional positive regard
peers accepts and loves person for what they are
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Van Restroff effect
item that stands out ‘like a sore thumb’ are more likely to be remembered
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Visuospatial sketchpad
processes visual and spatial info
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Wenrickes area
language comprehension
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