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| the study of the mind and brain |
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a ladder of explanation
lower levels tied most closely to biological influences and higher levels tied most closely to social influences |
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| people who believe that certain questions regarding human nature are unanswerable |
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| guideline that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior |
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| single-variable explanations |
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| explanations that try to account for complex behaviors in terms of only a single cause |
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| overlap among different causes of behavior, often making it difficult to identify which cause or causes are operating |
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| tendency for people to mutually influence each other's behavior |
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| error of assuming that measure that carry the same label necessarily assess the same thing |
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| paradox referring to the fact that the human brain is trying to understand itself |
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| tendency for people to behave differently when they know they're being studied |
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| variations among people in their thinking, emotion and behavior |
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| approach of studying a culture's behavior from the perspective of an inside |
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| approach of studying a culture's behavior from the perspective of an outsider |
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| method by which trained observers carefully reflect and report on their mental experiences |
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| events, like extrasensory perception, that fall outside the boundaries of traditional science |
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| scientist-practitioner gap |
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| divide between psychologists who believe that clinical practice should primarily be a science versus those who believe that clinical practice should primarily be an art |
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| school of psychology that aimed to identify the basic elements of psychological experience |
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| school of psychology that aimed to understand the adaptive purposes of psychological characteristics |
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| school of psychology that focuses on uncovering the laws of learning by looking outside the organism |
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| term sometimes used to describe behaviorists' view of the mind, namely an unknown entity that we don't need to understand to explain behavior |
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| mental processes involved in different aspects of thinking |
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| school of psychology, founded by Sigmund Freud, that focuses on internal psychological processes of which we're unaware |
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| approach of using many different methods in concert |
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| research examining how the mind works |
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| research examining how we can use basic research to solve real-world problems |
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| Focus on assessment, diagnosis, causes and treatment of mental diorders like depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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| temporarily mental illness ex.uncertainly about their career |
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| work with parents/teachers/students to make student most successful |
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| Developmental psychologists |
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| why and how people change over time |
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| experimental psychologists |
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| how people remember things |
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| human and animal behaviors |
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| industrial organizational psychologists |
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| work in businesses evaluate people and their performance |
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| levels of explanation social level |
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| loss of impt personal relationship, lack of social support |
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behavioral level |
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| decrease in activities, withdrawing from others |
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mental level |
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| “I am a loser” sad feelings, ideas of suicide |
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levels of explanation
neurological/physiological level |
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| differences among people in size&functioning of brain structures related to mood |
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levels of explanation
neurochemical level |
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| differences in levels of the brains chemical messengers that influence mood |
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molecular level |
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| variations in people’s genes that predispose to depression |
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| discipline that applies dariwn’s theory of natural selection to human and animal behavior |
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| superifical explanations made up after the fact; a term sometimes applied by crics to some evoluationary psychology hypothese |
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| compromise between free will and determinism that says the two can coexist |
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| scientists who believe that the mind is the brain and nervous system in action |
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| scientists who believe that the mind is more then the brain and nervous system |
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