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critical thinking
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
09/07/2011

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Critical Thinking
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the ability and willingness to assess claims and make judgements on the basis of well-supported reasons and evidence rather than emotion or anecdote.
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Critical Thinking Guide lines
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ask questions
define your terms
examine the evidence
analyze assumptions and biases
dont oversimplify
consider other interpretations
tolerate uncertainty
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Phrenology
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The now-discredited theory that different brain areas account for specific character and personality traits. which can be "read"from bumps on the wall
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Structuralism
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An early psychological approach that emphasized the analysis of immediate experience into basic elements
E.B T
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Sociocultural perspective
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A psychological approach that emphasizes social and cultural influence on behavior
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Psychodynamic perspective
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A psychological approach that emphasizes unconscious dynamic within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or the movement of instinctual energy
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Evolutionary psychology
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A field of psychology emphasizing evolutionary mechanism that may help explain human commonalities in cognition, development, emotion, social practices, and other areas of behavior.
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Leraning Perspective
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A psychological approach that emphasizes how the environment and experience affect a persons or animals actions
Behaviorism and social- cognitive learning theories
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Cognitive Perspective
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a psychological approach that emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory , language, problem solving, and other areas of behavior
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Psychoanalysis
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a theory if personality and a method of psychotherapy originally formed by Sigmund freud unconscious motives and conflicts
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Empirical
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fact..Relying on or derived from observation, experimentation or measurement.
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phrenology
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the now-discredited theory that different brain areas account for specific character and personality traits, which can be "read from bumps on the skull
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psychobabbie
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Functionalism
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An early psychological approach that emphasized the function or purpose of behavior and consciousness
Sigmund Freud
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Biological Perspective
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A psychological approach that emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts
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feminist psychology
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A psychological approach that analyzes the influence of social inquiries on gender relations and on the behavior of he two sexes.
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Basic Psychology
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The study of psychological issues in order to seek knowledge for its own sake rather than for its practical application.
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applied psychology
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The study of psychological issues that have direct practical significance; also, the application of psychological findings.
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psychology
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The discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how hey are affected by an organism's physical state, mental state, and external environment; the term is often represented by
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Occam's razor
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fortune teller
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Occam's razor
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fortune teller
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Humanist Psychology
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A psychological approach that emphasizes free will, personal growth, resilience, and the achievement of human potential
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