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What is Behaviorism?
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Behaviorism is a theory of animal and human learning that only focuses on objectively observable behaviors and discounts mental activities.
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What are the 5 approaches/perspectives in Psychology?
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Structuralism, Functionalism, Bheaviorism, cognitive psychology and humanitstic psychology
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What is a pseudoscience?
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an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions
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What are the 8 specialties in psychology?
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personality, experimental, social, cross-cultural, educational, clinical, counseling and forensic
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What does Psychology mean?
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the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
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What is a Theory?
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a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena
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What is a Hypothesis
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a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena
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What is a control group?
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in a test or trial, a group that does not receive the new treatment being studied and which is compared to the group that does receive the new treatment
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