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Psychology — (from Greek gr. ψῡχή, psȳkhē , breath, life, soul ; and gr. λογία, logia ) is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. Psychologists study such phenomena as perception, cognition, emotion … Wikipedia
Animal Behavior Society — The Animal Behavior Society is an international non profit scientific society that encourages and promotes the professional study of animal behavior. It has open membership, and also provides a certification and directory for animal… … Wikipedia
Learning theory (education) — In psychology and education, a common definition of learning is a process that brings together cognitive, emotional, and enviromental influences and experiences for acquiring, enhancing, or making changes in one s knowledge, skills, values, and… … Wikipedia
Behaviorism — or Behaviourism, also called the learning perspective (where any physical action is a behavior) is a philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things which organisms do including acting, thinking and feeling can and should be… … Wikipedia
History of psychology — The history of psychology as a scholarly study of the mind and behavior dates back to the Ancient Greeks. There is also evidence of psychological thought in ancient Egypt. Psychology was a branch of philosophy until the 1870s, when psychology… … Wikipedia
Cognitive revolution — The cognitive revolution is the name for an intellectual movement in the 1950s that began what are known collectively as the cognitive sciences. It began in the modern context of greater interdisciplinary communication and research. The relevant… … Wikipedia
T.O.T.E. — The T.O.T.E. or TOTE, standing for Test Operate Test Exit , is an iterative problem solving strategy based on feedback loops. It was described by George A. Miller, Eugene Galanter, and Karl H. Pribram in their 1960 book, Plans and the Structure… … Wikipedia
Anecdotal cognitivism — is a psychological theory and animal cognition term which entails attribution of mental states to animals on the basis of anecdotes, and on the observation of particular cases, other than those observations made during controlled experiments. It… … Wikipedia
Eugene Galanter — Infobox academic name = Eugene Galanter box width = image width = 150px caption = birth date = 1925 birth place = death date = death place = residence = New York, New York, United States citizenship = United States nationality = American… … Wikipedia
Epiphenomenalism — In philosophy of mind, epiphenomenalism, also known as Type E Dualism is a view according to which some or all mental states are mere epiphenomena (side effects or by products) of physical states of the world. Thus, epiphenomenalism denies that… … Wikipedia
