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| The discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism's physical state, mental state, and external environment. |
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| Relying on or derived from observation, experimentation, or measurement. |
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| psuedoscience and quakery covered by a veneer of psychological and scientific-sounding language. |
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| the ability and willingness to assess claims and make judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons annd evidence rather than emotion or anecdote |
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| an early psychological approach that emphasized the analysis of immediate into basic elements |
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| an early psychological approach that emphasized the function or purpose of behavior and consciousness |
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| a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy originally formulated by freud, that emphasizes unconcious motives and conflicts |
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| Biological, learning, cognitive, sociocultural, psychodynamic |
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| Biological, learning, cognitive, sociocultural, psychodynamic |
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| empasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts |
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| emphasizes how the environment and experience affect a person's or animal's actions |
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| emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, proble solving, and other areas of behavior |
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| sociocultural perspective |
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| emphasizes social and cultural influences on behavior |
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| psychodynamic perspective |
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| emphasizes unconscious dynamics within the individual such as inner forces, conflicts, the movement of instinctual energy. |
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| emphasizes free will, personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human potential |
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| research specialty where in the focus is on the qualities that enable people to be happy optimistic and resilient |
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