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14 Cards in this Set
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Psychology
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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
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Empiricism
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The view that (a) knowledge comes from the experience via the senses, and (b) science flourishes through observation and experiment.
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Structuralism
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An early school of psychology thy used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind.
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Functionalism
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A school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.
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Humanistic Psychology
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Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth.
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Nature - Nurture Issue
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The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
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Natural Selection
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The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely l be passes on to succeeding generations.
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Level of Analysis
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The differing complementary views, from biological go psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon.
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Bipsychosocial Approach
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An integrated perspective that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis.
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Basic Research
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Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base.
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Applied Research
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Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems.
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Counseling Psychology
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A branch oh psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well being.
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Clinical Psychology
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A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.
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Psychiatry
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A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy.
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