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| knowledge comes from experience, and science is strengthened by observation and analysis rather than opinions. |
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| thoughts can be broken down into separate emotions and sensations. |
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| focus is on why we behave and think the ways we do. |
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| Freud’s theory that people are motivated by unconscious desires. |
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| rewards and punishments encourage and modify actions and thoughts |
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| people are capable of self-directed free will and can positively influence their own lives. |
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| studies the thought and process such as problem solving, intelligence, and language. |
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| focus on how our brain controls our body and our thoughts. |
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| Sociocultural Perspective |
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| examines the influence of cultural norms on thoughts and behaviors. |
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| certain traits will make an individual more likely to pass on their genetics into the next generation. |
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| has a Ph.D degree and works in academic research and teaching |
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| a medical doctor who prescribes medicine to treat psychological disorders |
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| Freud: reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, feelings, wishes, and memories. Contemporary Psychologists: information processing of which we are unaware |
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| Freud: threatening desires, emotions or impulses that cannot be expressed because of societal rules were suppressed into the unconscious |
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