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| When and how did psychological science begin? |
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| Psychological science had its modern beginning with the first psychological laboratory, founded in 1879 by German philosopher and physiologist Wilhelm Wundt, and from the later work of other scholars from several disciplines and many countries. |
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| How did psychology continue to develop from the 1920s through today? |
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| Having begun as a “science of mental life,” psychology evolved in the 1920s into the “scientific study of observable behavior.” After rediscovering the mind, psychology since the 1960s has been widely defined as the science of behavior and mental processes. |
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| What is psychology’s historic big issue? |
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| Psychology’s biggest and most enduring issue concerns the relative contributions and interplay between the influences of nature (genes) and nurture (all other influences, from conception to death). Today’s science emphasizes the interaction of genes and experiences in specific environments. |
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| What are psychology’s levels of analysis and related perspectives? |
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| The biopsychosocial approach integrates information from the biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis. Psychologists study human behaviors and mental processes from many different perspectives (including the neuroscien-tific, evolutionary, behavior genetics, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and social-cultural perspectives). |
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| What are psychology’s main subfields? |
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| Psychology’s subfields encompass basic research (often done by biological, developmental, cognitive, personality, and social psychologists), applied research (sometimes conducted by industrial/organizational psychologists), and clinical science and applications (the work of counseling psychologists and clinical psychologists). Clinical psychologists study, assess, and treat (with psychotherapy) people with psychological disorders. Psychiatrists also study, assess, and treat people with disorders, but as medical doctors, they may prescribe drugs in addition to psychotherapy. |
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| How can psychological principles help you as a student? |
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| Research has shown that learning and memory are enhanced by active study. The SQ3R study method—survey, question, read, rehearse, and review—applies the principles derived from this research. |
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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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| a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes funtion- how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish. |
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| the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental process. most research pschologist agree with (1) but not with (2). |
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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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| the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language). |
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| the science of behavior and mental process |
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| the ongstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the developement of psychological traits and behaviors. behaviors are arising from the interaction of nature and nurture. |
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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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| the differing complementary views, from biologycal to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon. |
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| an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social cultural levels of analysis |
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| pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledged base. |
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| scientific study that aims to solve practical problems. |
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| a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being. |
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| a branch of psychology that studies, asseses and teeats people with psychological disorders. |
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| a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments (drugs) as well al psychological therapy. |
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| 5 step study method: Survey, Question, Read, Rehearse, Review. |
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