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10 Cards in this Set
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Psychology
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The systematic study of behavior and experience
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Determinism
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the assumption that everything that happens has a cause, or determinant, in the observable world
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Free Will
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belief that behavior is caused by a person's independent decisions
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Mind-brain problem
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philisophical question of how experience relates to the brain
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Dualism
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the mind is separate from the brain but somehow controls the brain and therefore the rest of the body
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monism
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the view that conscious experience is inseperable from the physical brain
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nature-nurtue issue
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How do differences in behavior relate to differences in heredity and enviornemnt?
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Developmental Psychologists
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study how behavior changes with age
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learning and motivation
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how behavior depends on the outcomes of past behaviors and current motivations
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Cognition
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thought and knowledge
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