Quizlet Psychology Review

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  1. Freud: Austrian psychologist who was one of the first to seriously examine the personality
  2. Maslow: argued that needs must be met in a certain sequence, or hierarchy
  3. adaptation: a change in behavior to meet the needs of a changing environment
  4. analysis: trying to figure out the meaning of a set of observations
  5. behavioral science: using the scientific method to study human behavior
  6. blind self: aspects of yourself that are known to others but not known to you
  7. classical conditioning: a pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus, leading to a response
  8. conscious needs: those needs of which we are aware
  9. creativity: the ability to think, do, or see things in a new and different way
  10. denial: refusing to believe something even though it's obvious
  11. developmental psychologist: studies the pyschological changes that occur as we age
  12. ego: acts as a referee between the id and superego
  13. emotions: feelings such as love, hate, anger, happiness
  14. empathy: feeling as another person does
  15. environment: your surroundings
  16. esteem needs: our need to feel competent and confident, and for recognition
  17. heredity: the passing of traits from parents to children through reporduction
  18. hidden self: aspects of yourself that are not known to others but are known to you
  19. id: represents our most basic needs
  20. learning: a change in behavior caused by experience
  21. mental set: an expectation of the way things should be or will be
  22. needs: what humans require to survive and grow in a healthy way
  23. negative reinforcement: taking away something unpleasant in order to get a desired behavior (the behavior must come first, though)
  24. observation: watching and writing down facts and events
  25. open self: aspects of yourself that are known to you and known to others
  26. operant conditioning: training a subject to perform a certain action through the use of reinforcers
  27. perception: taking in information from the environment
  28. personality: the combination of hereditary factors, environmental factors, and experience patterns that make us unique individuals
  29. physical needs: our most basic need for food, water, survival
  30. positive reinforcement: giving a reward in order to get a desired behavior (the behavior must come first, though)
  31. projection: projecting one's faults onto someone or something else
  32. psychology: the study of how the mind and body work together to create thoughts that lead to actions
  33. rationalization: making an excuse for an action without realizing the excuse is not the real reason for the action
  34. repression: pushing unpleasant memories into the subconscious
  35. response: an action caused by a stimulus
  36. safety and security: our need to feel free from danger; our need for predictability and stability
  37. self-actualization: becoming the best person you can be
  38. shaping: rewarding a subject when the subject performs a behavior that is close to the desired behavior
  39. social needs: our need to for acceptance, affection
  40. stimulus: leads to a response
  41. superego: represents society's teachings regarding right and wrong
  42. trial-and-error learning: trying different ways to solve a problem until one works
  43. unconscious needs: those needs of which we are not fully aware
  44. unknown self: aspects of yourself that are not to you and not known to others