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Psychology |
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes. |
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Science |
Systematic methods to observe the natural world (including humans) |
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Behavior |
Everything we do that can be directly observed |
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Mental processes |
thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us explain that is private. (can't be observed directly) |
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Goals of Psychology |
To describe, explain, predict, change behavior. |
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Characteristics of psychology |
Curious, Skeptical, Critical Thinkers, Objective |
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Wilhelm Wundt |
Founder of the first formed laboratory . |
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Wilhelm Wundt |
Father of psychology, and structuralism. |
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William James |
Founder of the first psychological clinic. |
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William James |
Founder of Functionalism, father of American psychology. |
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Historical Approach |
Structuralism, Functionlism, William approach |
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Contemporary Approach |
Biological, Behavioral, Cognitive, Evolutionary, Sociccutral, Psych dynamic, Humanistic, Integrative |
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Clinical Psychology |
Treats mental disorders with therapy. Biological approach |
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Counseling Psychology |
Council daily basis, issues, and struggles |
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Developmental Psychology |
Human development, stages of life |
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School Psychology |
Behavior issues in school |
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Educational Psychology |
Hearing issues, development test |
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Forensic Psychology |
Works in justice system, help judge, selection of jury |
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Industrial / Organizational Psychology |
Psychological in the workplace, work in training processes. |
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Health psychology |
Works in clinics, hospitals. Help people to make change to be healthier. |
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Social Psychology |
Helping, understanding, people in a group. |
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Sports Psychology |
Help athletes to perform better. Release anxiety. be more confident in skills |
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Experimental Psychology |
does experiments |
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The Ethics code for psychologist is published and revised by |
American Psychological Association (APA) |
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The ethics code is a |
Common set of principles and standards |
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The ethics code has its goals |
Welfare and protection of the individuals and groups with whom psychologist work? |
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Scientific Method |
A specific strategy used to answer questions and resolve problems discovering valid facts and relationships. |
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Steps of the Scientific Method |
Observing some Phenomenon, Formulating Hypothesis, Test through empirical research, Drawing conclusions, Evaluating the theory |
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Hypothesis |
Educated Guess; Prediction that can be tested |
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Theory |
A broad idea that attempts to explain observations and to make predictions about future observations. |
