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The scientific study of mental processes and behavior
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psychology
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a branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. The roughly comparable specialty area in psychology is known as clinical psychology
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psychiatry
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an early theory in psychology that sought to identify the components of the conscious mind
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structuralism
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an approach to psychology that studies how the unconscious mind shapes behavior
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psychoanalysis
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an approach to psychology that studied how the conscious mind helps humans survive and succussfully adapt to their environment
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functionalism
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an approach to psycholog that studies observable hehavior, rather than hidden mental processes
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behaviorism
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an approach to psychology that studies how the mind actively organize stimuli into coherent wholes
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gestalt psychology
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an appraoch to psychology that emphasizes human beings' innate capacity for personal growth and their ability to consciously make choices
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humanistic perspective
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an approach to psychology that attempts to understand behavior by studying how the mind organizes perceptions, processes informantion, and interprets experiences
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cognitive perspective
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an approach to psychology that attempts to understand behavior by examing physiological processes, expecially those occurring in the brain
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biological perspective
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an approach to psychology based on the principle of natural selection
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evolutionalry psychology
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the process by which organisms with inherited traits best suted to the environment reproduce more successfully than less well-adapted organisms over a number of generations
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natural selction
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the genetic changes that occur in a species over generations due to natural selection
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evolution
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an approach to psychology that emphasizes social and cultural influence on behavior
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sociocultural perspective
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the total lifestyle of people from a particular social grouping, including all the ideas, symbols, preferences, and material objects that they share.
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culture
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psychologiest who use existing psychological knowledge to solve and prevent problems
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applied psychologists
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