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A general framework for scientific study; smaller aspects can be tested.
Theory
Everything that the mind is capable of doing
Mental processes
What does thinking critically means?
Being objective and not letting the emotions and ideas decide.
Psychologists who study the origin, cause or results of certain behaviors.
Research Psychologist
Psychologists who make direct use of the findings of research psychologists, they deal directly with clients.
Applied Psychologist
What is the goal of psychology?
Understaning the human being.
In the 1800s, influenced psychology through his theory of evolution,
Charles Darwin
The process of looking into yourself and describing what is there.
Introspection
The process of making your own system by borrowing from two or more other systems.
Eclecticism
Who was the first female president of the APA?
Mary Whiton Calkins
Who is credited with coming up with structuralism
Edward Titchener
This person father of psychology in the United States taught the first psychology class at Harvard in 1875
William James
The following is not the goals of psychology
Define
This psychologist discovered classical conditioning by conducting an experiment with dogs, thus proposed that behaviors could be learned via conditioned associations
Ivan Pavlov
Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that they
are medical doctors licensed to prescribe medication.