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14 Cards in this Set
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Psychology |
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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Empiricism |
The view that a) knowledge comes from experience via the senses, and b) science flourishes through observation and experiment |
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Structuralism |
An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind |
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Functionalism |
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 |
Historically, significant perspective that emphasizes the growth potential of healthy people; use personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth |
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Nature-nurture issue |
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 |
The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations |
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Levels of analysis |
The differing complementary views, from biological psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon |
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Biopsychosocial approach |
An integrated perspective that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis |
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Basic research |
Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
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Applied research |
Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems |
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Counseling psychology |
A branch of 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 |
A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
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Psychiatry |
A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy |
