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unit 1-6
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Psychology
12th Grade
09/30/2009

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empiricism
Definition
-the view that knowledge comes from exprience via the sense, and science flourishes through observation and experiment
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structuralism
Definition
  • an early school of psychology that used introspection to explaore the elemental structure of the human mind
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functionalism
Definition
  • a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processed function

 

  • how they enable the organism to adapt, survive and flourish
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psychology
Definition
  • the science of behavior and the mental processes
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nature-nurture
Definition
  • the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions the gens and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
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basic research
Definition
  • pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base
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applied research
Definition
  • scientific study that aims to solve practical problems
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clinical psychology
Definition
  • a branch of psychology that studies, assesses and treats people with psychological disorders
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psychiatry
Definition
  •  a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders
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SQ3R
Definition
  •  a study methad incorporating five steps
  • survey
  • question
  • read
  • rehearse
  • review
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hindsight bias
Definition
  •  ( i knew it all along phenomenon )
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critical thinking
Definition
  • thinking that does not blindly accept the agruments and conclusions

 

  • rather it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and assesses conclusions
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theory
Definition
an elxpanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observation.
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operatinal definition
Definition
a statement of the procedures used to define research variables
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