Intro to Psychology

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The scientific study of thought and behavior

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Psychology

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the study of how we perceive information, how we learn, remember, how we acquire and use language, and how we solve problems

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Cognitive psychology

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explores how thought and behavior change, and show stability across the life span.

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Developmental psychology

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studies the link among brain, mind, and behavior

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Behavioral neuroscience

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the study of relationship between bodily systems and chemicals and how they influence behavior and thought

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biological psychology

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the study of what makes people unique and the consistencies in people’s behavior across time and situations

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personality psychology

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the study of what makes people unique and the consistencies in people’s behavior across time and situations

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personality psychology

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the study of how living among others influences thought, feeling, and behavior

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social psychology

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focuses on diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, and ways to promote psychological health

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clinical psychology

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tend to work with less severe psychology disorders than clinical psychologist. They treat and assess relatively healthy people and assist them with career and vocational interests

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counseling psychologists

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examines the role of psychology, factors in physical health and illness,

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health psychology

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draws on several other areas of psychology to study how students learn, the effectiveness of particular teaching techniques, the dynamics of school populations, and the psychology of teaching.

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Educational psychology

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psychology an applied science, meaning that it involves understanding real-world rather than laboratory behavior.

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Industrial/Organizational (I/O) psychology

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examines the psychological factors that affect performance and participation in sports and exersice

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Sports psychology

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is a blend of psychology, law, and criminal justice

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Forensic psychology

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medicine men or women who treat people with mental problems by driving out their demons with elaborate rituals, such as exorcisms, incantations, and prayers.

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shamans

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Facilities for treating the mentally ill in Europe during the Middle Ages and into the 19th century

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Asylums

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A 19th-century approach to treating the mentally ill with dignity in a caring environment

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Moral treatment

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A clinically based approach to understanding and treating psychological disorders; assumes that the unconscious mind is the most powerful force behind thought and behavior

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Psychoanalysis

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The view that all knowledge and thoughts come from experience

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Empiricism

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the study of how people experience physical stimuli such as light, sound waves, and touch.

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Psychophysics

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the 19th-century school of psychology that argues that breaking down experience into its elemental parts offers the best way to understand thought and behavior

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structuralism

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The main method of investigation for structuralists; it involves looking into one’s own minds for information about the nature of conscious experience.

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Introspection

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the 19th-century school of psychology that argued it was better to look at why the mind works the way it does than to describe its parts

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Functionalism

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A school of psychology that proposed that psychology can be a true science only if it examines observable behavior, not ideas, thoughts, feeling, or motives.

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Behaviorism

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A theory of psychology that focuses on personal growth and meaning as a way of reaching one’s highest potential

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Humanistic psychology

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A scientific approach of studying, understanding, and prompting health and positive psychological functioning

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Positive psychology

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A theory of psychology that maintains that we perceive things as wholes rather than as compilation of parts.

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Gestalt psychology

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The change over time in the frequency with which specific genes occur within a breeding species

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Evolution

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A feedback process whereby nature favors one design over another because it has an impact on reproduction

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Natural selection

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operates when members of the opposite sex finds certain traits attractive or appealing and therefore over long periods of times these traits become more common in the population

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Sexual section

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Inherited solutions to ancestral problems that have been selected for because the contribute in some way to reproductive success

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Adaptations

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the branch of psychology that studies human behavior by asking what adaptive problems it may have solved for our early ancestors

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Evolutionary psychology

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A process by which one analyzes, evaluates, and forms ideas

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Critical thinking

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the process that includes the ability first to think and then to reflect on one’s own thinking

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Metacognitive thinking