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1A History and Approaches vocab Flashcards

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The application of psychological concepts and method to optimizing human behavior in workplaces

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Industrial-Organizational (I/O) psychology

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The scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits

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Psychometrics

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The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations

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Natural selection

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The study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking

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Socio-Cultural psychology

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The study of an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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Personality psychology

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Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual’s potential for personal growth

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Humanistic psychology

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People who apply psychological principles to legal issues

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Forensic Psychologists

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The differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon

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Levels of analysis

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The science of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind

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Structuralism

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The long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors

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Nature-Nurture issue

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A branch of psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use

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Human factors psychology

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A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders

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Psychodynamic psychology

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The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

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Social Psychology

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A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish

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Functionalism

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A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who often proved medical treatments as well as psychological therapy

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Psychiatry

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The scientific study of observable behavior, and it’s explanation by principles of learning

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Behavioral psychology

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The scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating

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Cognitive Psychology

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The scientific study of human functioning, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities survive

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Positive psychology

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The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition

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Cognitive neuroscience

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The study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method

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Experimental psychology

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A branch of psychology that studies how people interact with their social environments and how social institutions affect individuals and groups

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Community psychology

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A branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span

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Developmental psychology

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An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis

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Biopsychosocial approach

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Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base

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Basic research

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A branch of psychology that studies, assesses and treats people with psychological disorders

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Clinical psychology

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The view that knowledge originated in experience and that science should rely on observation and experimentation

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Empiricism

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The study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection

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Evolutionary psychology

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A branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and in achieving greater well-being

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Counciling psychology

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The study of how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning

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Educational psychology

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A branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior

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Biological psychology

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Enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply rereading information

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Testing effect

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The view that psychology 1) should be an objective science that 2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most research psychologists today agrees with 1 but not with 2

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Behaviorism

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Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems

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Applied research

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