| description | word/key phrase |
| person who formulated reinforcement | |
| a field that tries to understand link between cognitive processes and brain activity | |
| a subfield of psych that studies the causes and consequences of interpersonal behavior | |
| scientist who worked with a patient suffering damage to a small part of the left side of the brain, almost completely unable to speak but understood all that was said to him | |
| the first phrenology theorist | |
| a therapeutic approach focusing on bringing unconscious to conscious to better understand psych disorders | |
| the study of biological processes, especially in the human body | |
| man who believed that private xperiences too vague to be scientifically studied, behaviorist | |
| he did research that influenced the supreme court decision to ban segregation in public schools | |
| the part of the mind that operates outside of conscious, awareness but influences conscious thoughts, feelings, and actions | |
| a now defunct theory that specific mental abilities and characteristics, ranging from memory to the capacity for happiness, are localized in specific regions of the brain | |
| philosophical view that all knowledge is acquired through experience | |
| observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals | |
| the study of the purpose mental processes serve in enablig people to adapt to their environment | |
| an approach to understanding human nature that focuses on positive potential of human beings | |
| an approach to psych that links psych processes to activities in the nervous system and other bodily processes | |
| she became the first woman president of the APA | |
| a person's subjective experience of the world and the mind | |
| he developed a method for measuring the speed of nerve impulses by recording reaction time | |
| the scientific study of mental processes (perception, thought, memory, reasoning) | |