| A | B |
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| Psychology | scientific study of human behavior and mental processes |
| behavior | any action that people can observe and measure |
| cognitive activities | mental processes |
| psychological constructs | something we cannot see, touch, or measure directly |
| theory | statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are and why they happen the way they do |
| principle | basic truth or law |
| morality | the concept of right or good conduct |
| introspection | looking within, know thyself |
| associationism | experiences remind of us similar experiences in the past |
| structuralism | concerned with discovering the basic elements of consciousness |
| functionalism | concerned with how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment |
| psychoanalysis | emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts in determining and understanding human behavior |
| psychodynamic thinking | assumed that most of what exists in an individual's mind is unconscious and consists of conflicting impulses, urges, and wishes |
| behaviorism | scientific study of observable and measurable events |
| Gestalt psychology | concerned with how context influenced people's interpretation of information |
| stream of consciousness | thought regarded as flowing series of images and ideas running through the mind |
