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24 Cards in this Set
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What is Psychology
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the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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What are the goals of Psychology?
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Describe
Explain Predict Control |
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What do Psychologists Do?
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Pure Research
Applied Research Practice Psychology Teaching |
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Pure Research
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Research conducted without concern for immediate applications
Doing for personal gratification |
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Applied Research
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Research conducted in an effort to find solutions to particular problems
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Practice Psychology
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applying psychological knowledge to help individuals change their behavior so that they can meet their own goals
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Teaching Psychology
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share psychological knowledge in classroom, seminars and workshops
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Fields of Psychology
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Clinical, Counseling, School, Educational, Developmental, Personality, Social, Environmental, Experimental, Industrial, Organizational, Human factors, Consumer, Health, Sport
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Clinical Psychologists
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Help people with psychological disorders adjust to the demands of life
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Counseling Psychologists
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Use interviews and tests to define their clients problems
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School Psychologists
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Employed by the school systems to identify and assist students who have problems that interfere with learnig
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Educational Psychologists
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Attempt to facilitate learning by focusing on course planning and instructional methods for a school system rather than on individual children
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Developmental Psychologists
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Study the changes- physical, cognitive, social, and personality- that occur throughout the life span
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Personality Psychologists
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Focus on goals such as identifying and measuring human traits, determining influences on human thought orders...issues such as anxiety, aggression, and gender roles
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Social Psychologists
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Concerned with the nature and causes of individuals' thoughts, feelings and behavior in social situations
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Environmental Psychologists
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Ways in which people and the the environment- the natural environment and the human-made- influence one another
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Experimental Psychologists
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Specialize in basic processes such as the nervous system, sensation and perception, learning and memory, thought, motivation, and emotion
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Industrial Psychologists
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Focuses on the relationships between people and work
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Human factors Psychologists
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Make technical systems such as automobile dashboards and computer keyboards more user-friendly
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Consumer Psychologists
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Study the behavior of shoppers in and effort to predict and influence their behavior
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Health Psychologists
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Examine the ways in which behavior and mental processes such as attitudes are related to physical health
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Sport Psychologists
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Help people improve their performance in sports
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Philosophical Contributions
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Aristotle
Democritus Plato |
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19th Century Contributions
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Gustav Theodore Gechner
Wilhelm Wundt |
