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| School of psychology that stresses the basic units of experience iand the combination in which they occur. |
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| Define: Functionalist Theory |
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| Theory of mental life and behavior that is concered with how an orgamism uses in perceptual abilities to function in it's enviornment. |
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| what is the functionalist theory focused on? |
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| it focuses on how individuals use their perceptual abilities to adapt and function in their enviorment. |
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| Define: Psychodynamic theory |
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| Personality theories contending that behavior results from psycholofical factors that interact within the individual, often outside conscious awareness. |
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| School of psychology that studies only observable and measurable behavior. |
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| Define: Gestalt psychology |
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| school of psychology that studies how people percieve and experience objects as whole patterns. |
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| Define: Humanistic Psychology |
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| School of psychology that emphasized nonverbal experience and slterd states of consciousness as means of realizing one's full potential. |
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| Define: Cognative Psychology |
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| School of psychology decated to the study of mental processes in the broadest sense. |
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| Define: Evolutionary psychology |
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| an approach to, and subfield of psychology that is concerned with the evolutionary origins of behavior and mental processes, their adaptive value, and the purposes they continue to serve. |
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| Define: Positive Psychology |
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| Focuses positive experiences, including subjective well-being, self- determination, the relationship between positive that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish. |
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| The psychological and social meaning attached to being biologically male or female. |
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| Offers wide variety of views on the social roles of women and men, and the problem and rewards of those roles. |
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| Refers to the direction of sexual interest. |
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| A subpopulation of a species, defined accoording to an identifiable characteristic. |
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| A common cultural heritage |
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| the tangible good and the values attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs that are passes from one generation to another |
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| Research involving the exploration of the eztent to which people differ from one culture to another. |
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| Research method involving the sustematic study of animal of human behavior in natural settings rather than in the laboratory. |
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| Expectation or biases of the observer that might distort or influence his or her interpretation of what was actually observed. |
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| Intensic description and analysis of a single individual or just a few individuals. |
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| research technique in w hich questionnaires or interviews are administered to a selected group of people. |
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| Research technique based on the naturallyu ocurring relationship between two or more variables. |
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| Research technique in which an investigator deliberately manipulates selected events or circumstances and then measures the effects of those manipulations on subsequent behavior. |
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| individuals whose reactions or esponses are observed in an experiment. |
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| in an experiment, the variable that is manipulated to test its effects on the other, dependent variables. |
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| the varible that is measured to see how it is changed by manipulation in the independent variable. |
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| in a controlled experiment the group subjected to a change in the independent varible. |
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| in a contolled experiment, the group not subjected to a change in the independent variable; used for comparison with the experiment group. |
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| Expectations by the experimenter the might influence the results of an experiment or it's interpretation. |
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| Sample in which each potential participant has an equal chance of being selected. |
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| Sample carefully chosen so that the characterist of the participants correspond closely to the characteristic of the larger population. |
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| the area of psychology that focuses on the biological foundations of behavior and mental processes. |
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| the study of the brain and the nervous system |
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| individual cells that are the smallest unit of the nervous system. |
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| Short fibers that branch out from the cell body and pick up incoming messages. |
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