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Introduction to Psychology: Key Terms and Definitions, Quizzes of Psychology

Definitions for various key terms and concepts in psychology, including cognition, conation, behavior, assumption of continuity, and many more. It covers various psychological theories and approaches, such as functionalism, gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, and humanism.

What you will learn

  • What is the task of psychology according to Wundt?
  • What is the process of thinking, believing, and receiving called?
  • What is the process of striving the will of the motion called?

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TERM 1
Cognition
DEFINITION 1
The process of thinking, believing and receiving. It must be
inferred from behavior
TERM 2
Conation
DEFINITION 2
The process of striving the will of the motion.Computers do
not have emotion
TERM 3
Behavior
DEFINITION 3
__________ is measurable
TERM 4
assumption of continuity
DEFINITION 4
All organisms learn by the same process.
TERM 5
Lorenz
DEFINITION 5
European ethnologist
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Cognition

The process of thinking, believing and receiving. It must be

inferred from behavior

TERM 2

Conation

DEFINITION 2

The process of striving the will of the motion.Computers do

not have emotion

TERM 3

Behavior

DEFINITION 3

__________ is measurable

TERM 4

assumption of continuity

DEFINITION 4

All organisms learn by the same process.

TERM 5

Lorenz

DEFINITION 5

European ethnologist

Wilson

US Sociobiologist

TERM 7

2 types of psychology

DEFINITION 7

Philosophy and physiology

TERM 8

Rand

DEFINITION 8

Philosopher

TERM 9

What were Rand's 3

questions

DEFINITION 9

Who am I?How can I know?What should I do?

TERM 10

Wundt

DEFINITION 10

He created the first experimental psychology

J B Watson

The founding father of behaviorism.

TERM 17

Pavlov

DEFINITION 17

Russia behaviorist

TERM 18

Skinner

DEFINITION 18

US behaviorist

TERM 19

Phi Phenomenon

DEFINITION 19

An illusion of movement.

TERM 20

Association Theory

DEFINITION 20

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

Students of Wertheimer

Kohler and Koffka

TERM 22

Gestalt Psychology

DEFINITION 22

Is not based on associationism.

TERM 23

Psychoanalysis

DEFINITION 23

The second Darwinian school.

TERM 24

Freud

DEFINITION 24

He believed that through evolution we inherited two instincts

or drives.

TERM 25

2 psychoanalysis drive

theories

DEFINITION 25

Libido and aggression

William James

Functionalism

TERM 32

Cultural

DEFINITION 32

Gives you language and thought.

TERM 33

Vygotsky

DEFINITION 33

Soviet Union - cultural

TERM 34

Bruner and Mead

DEFINITION 34

The US - Cultural

TERM 35

Humanism

DEFINITION 35

phenomenology and Existentialism

Science

______ concerns itself with cause and effect.

TERM 37

Serendipity

DEFINITION 37

Coming across knowledge by accident that leads us

somewhere.

TERM 38

Intuition

DEFINITION 38

Knowing something but not knowing how you know it.

TERM 39

Method of science

DEFINITION 39

Description, prediction and control

TERM 40

2 variables in a hypothesis

DEFINITION 40

Cause and effect

Aphasia

A problem with expressing language

TERM 47

R = 0

DEFINITION 47

There is no relation

TERM 48

R = +-

DEFINITION 48

Perfect linear relationship