Understanding Psychology (10th Ed)

cognitive perspective

 
The approach that 
focuses on how people think, understand, and 
know about the world (Module 2).
cognitive perspective on psychological dis-
orders
The perspective that suggests that 
people’s thoughts and beliefs are a central 
component of abnormal behavior (Module 46).

cognitive psychology

 
The branch of psychol-
ogy that focuses on the study of higher mental 
processes, including thinking, language, mem-
ory, problem solving, knowing, reasoning, judg-
ing, and decision making (Module 23).
behaviors and decreasing the incidence of 
unwanted ones (Module 18).

behavioral assessment

 
Direct measures of an 
individual’s behavior used to describe person-
ality characteristics (Module 42).

behavioral genetics

 
The study of the effects of 
heredity on behavior (Module 8).

behavioral neuroscientists (or biopsycholo-
gists)

 
Psychologists who specialize in consider-
ing the ways in which the biological structures 
and functions of the body affect behavior 
(Module 7).

behavioral perspective

 
The approach that sug-
gests that observable, measurable behavior 
should be the focus of study (Modules 2, 46).

behavioral treatment approaches

 
Treatment 
approaches that build on the basic processes of 
learning, such as reinforcement and extinction, 
and assume that normal and abnormal behavior 
are both learned (Module 49).

biofeedback

 
A procedure in which a person 
learns to control through conscious thought 
internal physiological processes such as blood 
pressure, heart and respiration rate, skin tem-
perature, sweating, and the constriction of