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| the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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| functionalism (old school) |
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| *how mental and behavioral processes enable the organishm to adapt, survive, and flourish |
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| structuralism (old school) |
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| used introspection to explote the elemental structure of the human mind |
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| structuralism (old school) |
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| used introspection to explote the elemental structure of the human mind |
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| structuralism (old school) |
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| used introspection to explote the elemental structure of the human mind |
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| neuroscience (current school) |
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| how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences |
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| evolutionary psychology (current school) |
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| how the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes |
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| behavioral (current school) |
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| how we learn observable responses |
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| behavior genetic (current school) |
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| how much our genes and our enviroment influence our individual differences |
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| psychodynamic (current school) |
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| how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
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| cognitive (current school) |
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| cognitive (current school) |
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| how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information |
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| social cultural (current school) |
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| how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures |
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| a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus how well wither factor predicts the other. |
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| the mathematical expression of the relationship ranging from 1 to -1 |
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