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Psycology: words
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Physiology
11th Grade
01/02/2012

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Psychology
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the systematic, scientific study of behaviors and mental processes
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Behaviors
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refers to observable actions or responses in both humans and animals
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Mental Processes
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not directly observable, refers to a wide range of complex mental processes, such as thinking, imagining, studying, and dreaming.
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4 goals of psychology
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Describe, Explain, Predict, and Control
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Describe
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to describe the different ways that organisms behave
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Explain
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explain the cause of the behavior
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Predict
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predict how organisms will behave in certain situations
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Control
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to control an organisms behavior
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the six approaches to explain behavior
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Biological, Cognitive, Behavioral, Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, and cross cultural
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Biological approach
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focuses on genes, hormones, and nervous system work with our environments to influence learning, personality, memory, motivation, emotions, and coping techniques.
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Cognitive approach
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examines how we process, store and use information an how this info influences what we attend to, perceive, learn, remember, believe and feel
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Behavioral approach
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studies how organisms learn new behaviors or modify existing ones.This depends on weather events in their environments reward or punish these bhaviors
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Psychoanalytic approach
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stresses the influence of unconscious fears, desires, and motivations on thoughts, behaviors, and the development of personality traits and psychological problems later in life
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Humanistic approach
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emphansizes that each individual has great freedom in directing his or her future, a large capacity for growth, a considerable amount of intrinsic worth, and enormous potential for self-fulfillment
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cross-cultural approach
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examines the influence of cultural and ethic similarities and differences on psychological and social functioning of a culture's members
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3 methods of research
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A survey, case study, and an experiment
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a survey
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is a way to obtain info with multiple questions (+ for large amount of people)
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Case study
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an in depth analysis of the thoughts, feelings, beliefs,experiences, behaviors and problems. (+ good at showing cause an effect relationships)
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Experiment method
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To identify cause and effect relationships by following a set of rules to minimize the possibility for error
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Correlation
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an association or relationship between the occurrence of 2 or more events
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