psy290 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Memory, Psychology, Anxiety

• School: Athabasca University
• Department: general science
• Course: psy290
• Professor: Beston

Document Summary

The branch of psychology concerned with everyday, practical problems: behaviour. Any overt (observable) response or activity by an organism: behaviourism. A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior: biological psychology cell assembly clinical psychology. The branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders cognition. The mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge critical thinking. The use of cognitive skills and strategies that increase the probability of a desired outcome culture. The widely shared customs, beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations empiricism. The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation ethnocentrism. The tendency to view one"s own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways evolutionary psychology. Theoretical perspective that examines behavioral processes in terms of their adaptive value for a species over the course of many generations functionalism.