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14 Cards in this Set
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Biological View
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The psychological perspective that searches for the causes of behavior in the functioning of genes, the brain and nervous system, and the endocrine (hormone) system.
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Neuroscience
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The field devoted to understanding how the brain crease thoughts feelings, motives, consciousness, memories, and other mental processes
Evolutionary psychology: a relatively new specialty in psychology that sees behavior and mental processes in terms of their genetic adaptations for survival and reproduction |
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Evolutionary Psychology:
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A relatively new specialty in psychology that sees behavior and mental processes in term of their genetic adaptations for survival and reproduction.
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Developmental View
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The psychological perspective emphasizing changes that occur across the lifespan.
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Cognitive View
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The psychological perspective emphasizing mental processes, such as learning, memory, perception, and thinking, as forms of information processing.
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Cognitions
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Mental processes, such as thinking, memory, sensation, and perception
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Cognitive neuroscience
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: An interdisciplinary field emphasizing brain activity as information processing; involves cognitive psychology, neurology, biology, computer science, linguistics, and specialists from other fields who are interested in the connection between mental processes and the brain.
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Clinical View
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The psychological perspective emphasizing mental health and mental illness. Psychodynamic and humanistic psychology are variations on clinical view.
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Psychodynamic psychology
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A clinical viewpoint emphasizing the understanding of mental disorders in terms of unconscious needs, desires, memories, and conflicts.
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Humanistic psychology
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A clinical viewpoint emphasizing human ability, growth, potential, and free will.
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Behavioral view
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A psychological perspective that finds the source of our actions in environmental stimuli, rather than in inner mental processes.
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Sociocultural view
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A psychological perspective emphasizing the importance of social interaction, social learning, and a cultural perspective.
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Culture
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A complex blend of language, belief, customs, values and traditions developed by a group of people and shred with others in the same environment
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Trait view
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A psychological perspective that views behavior and personality as the product of enduring psychological characteristics
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