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what is the most common type of psychologist wokring with people with mental problems.
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clinical psychologist
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this psychologist work with middle school and high level working with people with personal problems
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conseling psychologist
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what is the difference between clinical and conseling psychologist?
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clinical psychologists must attend medical school
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what is the empirlcism theory?
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careful observations and measures to generate theory in psychology theories are used to gather evidence about humans.
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what is a case study?
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where one individual is studied intensely
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What is natural observation?
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look at individual or social behavior uninpeeded
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what is hypothesis?
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a tentative statement about a casual experiment
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what is the independent variable?
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controilled by the experiment
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what is the dependent variable?
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a measure of performance scores ny the participants
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what is descriptive statistics?
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an average of two scores
(means) also the range of scores |
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what is inferential statistics?
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compare the experimental and controlled group
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What is nature?
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heredity or potential?
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what is nuture?
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environment
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what is a gene?````
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a basic unit of heredity
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what are chromosomes and how many are in the body?
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they are dfined as the code for all structural features and there are 23 pairs
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what type of chromosomes does men and women have?
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men - XX
women - XY |
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what are some similarity and differences of identical and fraternal twins?
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both come from same egg but the identical has same gene unlike fraternal.
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