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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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Psychology
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A study conducted via careful observations and scientifically based research
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Empirical approach
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Erroneous assertions or practices set forth as being scientific psychology.
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Pseudo psychology
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The tendency to attend to evidence that complements and confirms our beliefs and expectations, while ignoring evidence that does not
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Confirmation bias
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Psychologists who do research on basic psychological processes- as contrasted with applied psychologists; also called research psychologists psychologists
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Experimental psychologists
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Psychologists whose primary job is teaching typically in high schools, colleges, and universities
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Teachers of psychology
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Psychologists who use the knowledge developed by experimental psychologists to solve human problems
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Applied psychologists
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A medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
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Psychiatry
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A historical school of psychology devoted to uncovering the basic structures that make up mind and thought.
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Structuralism
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The process of reporting on one's own conscious mental experiences
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Introspection
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A historical school of psychology that believed mental processes could best be understood in terms of their adaptive purpose and function
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Functionalism
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A historical school of psychology that sought to understand how the brain works by studying perception and perceptual learning.
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Gestalt Psychology
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A historical school that has sought to make psychology an objective science focused on behavior- to the exclusion of mental processes
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Behaviorism
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An approach to psychology based on Sigmund Freud's assertions, which emphasize unconscious processes.
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Psychoanalysis
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The psychologist 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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Biological view
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The field devoted to understanding how the brain creates thoughts, feelings, motives, consciousness, memories, and other mental processes
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Neuroscience
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A relatively new specialty in psychology that sees behavior and mental processes in terms of genetic adaptations for survival and reproduction
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Evolutionary psychology
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The psychological perspective emphasizing changes that occur across the lifespan
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Developmental view
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The psycholgical perspective emphasizing mental processes, such as learning, memory, perception, and thinking, as forms of information processing
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Cognitive view
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Mental processes, such as thinking, memory, sensation, and perception
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Cognitions
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An interdisciplinary field emphasizing brain activity as information processing
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Cognitive neuroscience
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The psychological perspective emphasizing mental health and mental illness.
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Clinical view
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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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Psychodynamic psychology
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A clinical viewpoint emphasizing human ability, growth, potential, and free will.
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Humanistic psychology
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A psyhcological perspective that finds the source of our actions in environmental stimuli, rrather than in inner mental processes
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Behavioral view
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A psychological perspective emphasizing the importance of social interaction, social learning, and a cultural perspective
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Sociocultural view
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A complex blend of language, beliefs, customs, values, and traditions developed by a group of people and shared with others in the same environment
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Culture
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A psychological perspective that views behavior and personality as the products of enduring psychological characteristics
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Trait view
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