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Applied Psychology |
The branch of psychology concerned with everyday, practical problems. |
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Behavior |
Any overt (observable) response or activity by an organism. |
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Behaviorism |
A theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior. |
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Clinical Psychology |
The branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders. |
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Culture |
The widely shared customs, beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations. |
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Empiricism |
The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation. |
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Ethnocentrism |
tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard, the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged. |
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Evolutionary psychology |
Theoretical perspective that examines behavioral processes in terms of their adaptive value for a species over the course of many generations. |
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Theory |
A system of interrelated ideas that is used to explain a set of observations. |
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Functionalism |
A school of psychology based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure. |
