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18 Cards in this Set
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What is psychology?
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Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes in all their many facets
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What is developmental psychology?
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Studies all aspects of human growth and change, from the prenatal period through old age
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What is physiological psychology?
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Investigates the biological basis of human behavior, thoughts and emotions
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What do neuropsychologists study?
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The workings of the brain and nervous system
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What do biological psychologists study?
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The body's biochemistry and the ways that hormones, psychoactive medications and "social drugs" affect us and our minds
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What is experimental psychology?
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Conducts research on basic psychological processes such as learning, memory, sensation, perception, thinking, motivation and emotio
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What is personality psychology?
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Studies the differences among individuals
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What is clinical and counseling psychology?
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Interested primarily in the diagnosis, causes and treatments of psychological disorders, such as depression and acute anxiety
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What is social psychology?
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The scientific study of how social influences are exerted and the effects they have
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What is industrial and organizational psychology?
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Applies the principles of psychology in the workplace
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Why is psychology considered a science?
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It is based on the scientific method
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Memory and selective attention
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The process by which we determine what we are going to attend to at any given moment
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Volunteerism
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Believed that attention is actively controlled by intentions and motives; and that this sets human attention apart from attention in other organisms
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What three basic elements did Titchener break the unconscious mind to?
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Physical sensations, feelings and images
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What did James believe?
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That people simply act out of habit
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What is the functionalist theory and who was its theorist?
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James, it was the theory of mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to function in its environment
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Who was known as the father of psychoanalysis?
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Sigmund Freud
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What did Freud believe?
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That "free will" is simply an illusion
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