Psychology Midterm

Basic sensory awareness/response (i.e. reacting to stimuli w/ out full awareness).

Incoherence: normal rules of time, space, and logic.

Internal mental processes (perception, memory, and problem-solving)

How brain and body enable: emotions, memories, and sensory experiences.

Directedness toward an object/experience

Learned behaviors, emotional responses, cognitive processing

Intentionality, unity, selectivity, and transience.

William James; evolved functions of the mind and behavior for survival.

Biological, psychological, socio-cultural factors (understanding behavior)

Random: representativeness, convenience: readily available participants

Classifying + understanding mind’s structure using introspection.

Participant confidentiality, informed consent, minimizing harm.

Defining variables in measurable terms.

Ability to integrate different info into a whole

Awareness + ability to report mental states (i.e. metacognition)

Scientific study of observable behavior, disregarding internal mental states.

Combining insights from various perspectives to create comprehensive arguments for behavior.

How genes + environment influence individual differences.

Attention directed to oneself (as an object, i.e. seeing oneself in a mirror)

Genetic predispositions, mutations, natural selection.

Context-rich data + subjective experience

Factor that is manipulated

Interpretations of situations on emotions + decisions

Ever-changing nature of consciousness (William James' 'stream' of consciousness).

Hard to recall upon waking.

Research accurately measures what it claims to.

Causality, measurement, generalization, replication.

Observable behaviors through conditioning.

Consistency, research results (repetition)

Unconscious mind + early childhood experiences, shaping behavior.

How natural selection influences behavior + psychological traits.

Intense emotions, illogical thought, vivid sensory experiences, uncritical acceptance of bizarre events, difficulty remembering

Ability to focus on certain objects, ignoring others (cocktail-party phenomenon)

Human growth potential, love, acceptance, self-actualization.