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| A mental health professional with a medical degree who can prescribe medication |
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| early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener: used introspecion to reveal the structure of the human mind |
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| early school of thought promoted by James and influenced by Darwin; explored how mental and behavioral processes function-how they enable the organism to adapt, survive and flourish |
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| the view that psych (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior w/o reference to mental processes. most psychologists today agree w/ (1) but not w/ (2) |
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| historically significant perspective that emphasized human growth potential |
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| the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked w/ cognition (includng perception, thinking, memory, and language) |
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| the science of behavior and mental processes |
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| (Charles Darwin) the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reporduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations |
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| the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture |
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| the sudy of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection |
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| the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influnences on behavior |
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| the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next |
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| the scientific study of human functioning, w/ the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive |
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| the differing complementary views, fomr biological 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 knowledge base |
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| scientific study that aims to solve practical problems |
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| a branch of psychology that assists ppl w/ problems in living (school, work, marriage, etc.) an in achieving greater well-being |
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| a branch of psychology a branch of psychology that studies, assesses and treats ppl w/ psychological disorders |
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| a branch of medicine dealing w/ psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy |
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| a branch of psychology that studies how ppl interacy w/ their social environments an how social institutions affect individuals and groups |
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| enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply rereading, info |
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| a study method - survey, question, read, retrieve, review |
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| an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted w/ explicit, conscious reading |
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| the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it |
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| thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions, it rather examines assumptions, appraises the source, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and assesses conclusions |
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