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Psychology
Graduate
09/21/2008

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pseudoscience
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psychics, mediums, palmisty, psychometry, psychokinesis, astrolgy
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sciece
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high value on empircal evidece or infrmation acquired by direct observation and measurement using systemic scientific methods
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goals of psychology
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describe, explain predict and change
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wundts contribution to psychology
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credited with birth of psychology
wrtoe principles of physiological psycholgy
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psychoanalytic
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freud, motives primarily sexual or aggressive nature, motives are uncoscious
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behaviorist
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objective observable envrionmental influences on over behaviors,mostly on animals
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humanistic
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free will self actualization ahuman nature naturally positive and growth seeking
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cognitive
Definition
how we gather, encode and store information using a variety of processes
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neuroscience
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structure and fcn of individual nerve cells and there roles in the brain
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evolutionary
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behavior result of adaption
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sociocultureal perspective
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social interactions an cultural determinatns of behavior and mental process, ethinicity religion, occupation, all have effect on psychology
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