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psychology
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Discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism's physical state, mental state, and external environment; science of mind and behavior
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biological perspective
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hormones, hereditary
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learning perspective
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external environment and how it affects people's behavior; consequence and rewards
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cognitive perspective
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more of the mind field; language, problem solving
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socio-cultural perspective
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how society and cultures affect our thought processes
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psychodynamic perspective
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forces that are working against each other in the mind; unconscious realm
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psychotherapists
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anyone who does any type of psychotherapy
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pscyhoanalysts
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anyone who receives training in psychoanalysis
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psychiatrist
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medical doctors who diagnose and treat medical disorders
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empirical evidence
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relying on evidence gathered by careful observation, experimentation, or measurement
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operational definition
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specific quantitative and qualitative aspects
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principle of falsiability
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ability to falsify
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confirmation bias
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look for only things that prove what we are trying to prove
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biological perspective
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emphasis on bodily events & how it affects way of thinking; hormones, hereditary
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humanist psychology
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emphasis on freedom, personal growth & success of human potential
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feminist psychology
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social inequities on gender relations and on behavior of two sexes emphasized
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