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Type of psychology that states behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed as a whole?
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Gestalt Psychology
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What is Psychic Determinism?
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the psychoanalytic assumption that all feelings, thoughts, and actions have a purpose and are determined by past events
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What is empiricism?
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the view that knowledge should be acquired through obervation tand often experiment
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What is introspection?
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a person's description and analysis of what he is thinking and feeling or what he has just thought about
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If the results of an experiment are very likely to be real and consistent and not just the result of chance or cincidence, we say the results are...?
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significant
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The first psychological laboratory was opened by...?
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Wihelm Wundt in Germany in 1879
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The early school of psychological thought that emphasized the study of how immediate, conscious experience is organized was....?
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structuralism
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Joseph is a medical doctor who treats people with emotional problems by prescribing appropriate medications. What is he?
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a psychiatrist
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An applied psychologist is one who...?
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does research and uses it to solve pratical problems
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The major professional organization for psychologists mentioned in your text is the...?
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American Psychological Association (APA)
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