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14 Cards in this Set
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Physiological
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Having to do with an organism's physical processes. Such as need sleep and eating.
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Cognitive
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Having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding. Like, emotional and behavioral reasons.
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Psychology
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the scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research. Both human and animal behaviors.
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Hypothesis
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an assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through scientific research. An educated guess.
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Theory
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A set of asumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for a scientific study. Found by doing a large number of experiments
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Basic Science
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The pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake. Research.
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Applied Science
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Discovering ways to use scientific finding to accomplish practical goals.
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Scientific method
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A general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized. Data collected accuretly.
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Structuralist
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A psychologist who studied the basic elements that make up conscious mental experience. basic elements of human experience.
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Introspection
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A method of self-observation in which participants reprot their thoughts and feelings. collecting info about the mind.
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Functionalist
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a phychologist who studied the function of consiousness. how animals and people adapt to their environments.
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Psychoanalyst
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A phychologiest who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior.
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Cognitive
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Having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding. Like, emotional and behavioral reasons.
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Psychiatry
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a branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
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