Psychology 1103 Chapter 1 Vocal Dixon

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Psychology

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the science of behavior and mental processes

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Positive Psychology

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a field of research that focuses on people's positive experiences and characteristics, such as happiness, optimism, and resilience

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Biological Psychologists

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Psychologists who analyze the biological factors influencing behavior and mental processes (also known ask physiological psychologists)

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Cognitive Psychologists

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Psychologist who study the mental processes underlying judgement, decisions making, problem solving, imaging, and other aspects of human thought or cognition (also known as experimental psychologists)

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Engineering Psychology

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A field in which psychologists study human factors in the use of equipment and help designers create better versions of that equipment

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Developmental Psychologists

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Psychologists who seek to understand, describe, and explore how behavior and mental processes change over a life time

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Personality Psychologists

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Psychologists who study the characteristics that make individuals similar to or different from one another

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Clinical and Counseling Psychologists

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Psychologists who seek to assess, understand, and change abnormal behavior

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Community Psychologists

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Psychologists who work to obtain psychological services for people in need of help and to prevent psychological disorders by working for changes in social systesm

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Health Psychologists

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Psychologists who study the effects of behavior and mental processes on health and illness and vice versa

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Educational Psychologists

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Psychologists who study the methods by which instructors teach and students learn and who apply their results to improving those methods

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School Psychologists

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Psychologists who test IQs, diagnose students' academic problems, and set up programs to improve students' achievement

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Social Psychologists

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Psychologists who study how people influence one another's behavior and mental processes, individually and in groups

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Industrial and Organizational Psychologists

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Psychologists who study ways to improve efficiency, productivity, and satisfaction among workers and the organizations that employ them

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Quantitative Psychologists

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Psychologists who develop and use statistical tools to analyze research data

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Sport Psychologists

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Psychologists who explore the relationships between athletic performance and such psychological variables as motivation and emotion

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Forensic Psychologists

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Psychologists who assist in jury selection, evaluate defendants' mental competence to stand trial, and deal with other issues involving psychology and law

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Environmental Psychologists

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Psychologists who study the effects of the physical environment on behavior and the mental process

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Neuroscience

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The scientific-study of all levels of the nervous system, including neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neurology, neurophysiology, and neuropharmacology

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Consciousness

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The awareness of external stimuli and our own mental activity

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Biological Approach

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An approach to psychology in which behavior and behavior disorders are seen as the result of physical processes, especially those relating to the brain and to hormones and other chemicals

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Natural Selection

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The evolutionary mechanism through which Darwin said the fittest individuals survive and reproduce

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Evolutionary Approach

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An approach to psychology that emphasizes the inherited, adaptive aspects of behavior and mental processes

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Psychodynamic Approach

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A view developed by Freud that emphasizes the interplay of unconscious mental processes in determining human thought, feelings, and behavior

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Behavioral Approach

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An approach to psychology emphasizing that human behavior is determined mainly by what a person has learned, especially from rewards and punishments

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Cognitive Approach

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A way of looking at human behavior that emphasizes research on how the brain takes in information, creates perceptions, forms and retrieves memories, processes information and generates integrated patterns of action

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Humanistic Approach

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An approach to psychology that views behavior as controlled by the decisions that people make their lives based on their perceptions of the world

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Sociocultural Factors

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Social identity and other background factors, such as gender, ethnicity, social class, and culture

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Culture

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The accumulation of values, rules of behavior, forms of expression, religious beliefs, occupational choices, and the like for a group of people who share a common language and environmnet