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◉ Theory. Answer: They organize and explain information that is
obtained through research. Based on this information, we can
predict future events
◉ Development. Answer: Changes in behavior and thought that
create and maintain mature competencies
◉ Consciousness. Answer: Our subjective awareness of our inner
thinking and feelings as well as our external environment
◉ Sensation. Answer: The process by which stimuli are detected as
sights, sounds, smells, tastes, or touches
◉ Perception. Answer: The process by which we interpret and give
meaning to sensations
◉ Learning. Answer: A permanent change in behavior or capability
that results from experience
,◉ Motivation. Answer: Internal and external factors that arouse,
direct, and sustain an action
◉ Memory. Answer: The ability to recognize, recall, or relearn
previously practiced behavior or knowledge
◉ Thinking. Answer: Processing information to solve problems and
make judgments and decisions
◉ Intelligence. Answer: Capacity for goal-directed adaptive behavior
Successfully meets challenges and achieves its aims
Involves the ability to profit from experience, solve problems, and
reason
◉ Social Psychology. Answer: Scientific study of how we influence
one another's behavior and thinking
◉ Personality. Answer: A person's internally based characteristic
ways of acting and thinking. Id, ego, and superego according to
Freud
◉ Psychotherapy. Answer: A systematic interaction between a
therapist and a client that uses psychological principles to influence
the client's thoughts, feelings, or behavior to help the client
, overcome psychological disorders, adjust living problems, or
develop as individuals
◉ Psychological Disorder. Answer: Psychological disordered
behavior must be judged as atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and
irrational
◉ Psychoanalytic Theory. Answer: Freud's theory that the mind has
three levels of awareness (conscious, preconscious, unconscious),
three parts of a person's psyche (id, ego, superego), and the
importance of childhood memories
◉ Unconscious. Answer: Freud's term for part of the mind that we
cannot become aware of
◉ Preconscious. Answer: Freud's term for content that not currently
in awareness but that could be accessed and brought to awareness
(Long-Term Memory)
◉ Conscious. Answer: Freud's term for what we are presently aware
of (Short-Term Memory)
◉ Id. Answer: The part of the personality that a person is born with,
where the biological instinctual drives reside, and that is located
totally in the unconscious mind