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| the view that a) knowledge comes from experience via the senses, and b)science flourishes throufh observation and experiment. |
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| focuses on how mental & behavioral processes function &help organisms adapt & survive. |
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| perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth. |
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| The scientific study of behavioral and mental processes. |
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| Using introspection to discover elements of the mind. |
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| an observatopn technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles. |
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| A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other |
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| the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors. |
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| the perception of a relationship where none exists. |
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| observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate & control the situation. |
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| A computed score of how much scores vary around the mean score. |
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| A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occured by chance. |
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| An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations. |
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