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Psychology
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The science of behavior and mental processes
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Nature Nurture issue
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the controversy over the relative contributions that genes (nature) and experience(nurture)make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
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Natural selection
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the principle that those traits of a species that contribute to reproduction and survival are most likely to be passed on to succeeding generations
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Basic research
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is pure science that aims to increase psychology's scientfic knowledge base rather than to solve practical problems
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Applied research
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scientific study that aims to solve practical problems
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clinical psychology
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the branch of psychology concerned with the study, assessment, and treatment of people with psychologocial disorders
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psychiatry
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the branch of medicine concerned with the physical diagnosiis and treatmnet of psychological disorders.
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stability versus change, rationlity versus irrationality
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individuals' traits persist or change throughout life
the extent to which our thoughts and actions are logical and efficient and the extent to which they are prone to inaccuracy. |
