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Ch. 1 Vocab
The vocab words from the 1st chapter of my green Psychology book (7th Edition) by Bernstein, Penner, Clarke-Stewart, and Roy.
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Psychology
12th Grade
08/27/2011

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psychology
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the science behavior and mental processes
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biological psychologists
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psychologists who analyze the biological factors influencing behavior and mental processes
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developmental psychologists
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psychologists who study the mental processes underlying judgement, decision making, problem solving, imagining, and other aspects of human thought or cognition.
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engineering psychology
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a field in which psychologists study human factors in the use of equipment and help designers create better versions of that equipment
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personality psychologists
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psychologists who study the characteristics that make individuals similar to, or different from, one another.
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clinical and counseling psychologists
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psychologists who seek to assess, understand, and change abnormal behavior
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community psychologists
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psychologists who work to obtain psychological services for people in need of help and to prevent psychological disorders by working ofr changes in social systems.
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health psychologists
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psychologists who study the effects of behavior and mental processes on health and illness, and vice versa.
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educational psychologists
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psychologists who study methods by which instructors teach and students learn and who apply their results to improving such methods
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school psychologists
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psychologists who test IQs, diagnose students' academic problems, and set up programs to improve students' achievements
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social psychologists
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psychologists who study how people influence one another's behavior aand mental processes, individually and in groups
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industrial/organizational psychologists
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psychologists who study ways to improve efficiency, productivity, and satisfaction among workers and the organizations that emply them.
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quantitative psychologists
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psychologists who develop and use statistical tools to analyze research data.
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sport psychologists
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psychologists who explore the relationships between athletic performance and such psychological variables as motivation and emotion.
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forensic psychologists
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psychologists who assist in jury selection, evaluate defendants' mental competence to stand trial, and deal with other issues involving psychology and the law.
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environmental psychologists
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psychologists who study the effects of the physical environment on behavior and mental processes
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biological approach
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an approach to psychology in which behavior and behavior disorders are seen as the result of physical processes, especially those relating to the brain and to hormones and other chemicals.
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evolutionary approach
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an approach to psychology that emphasizes the inherited, adpative aspects of behavior and mental processes.
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psychodynamic approach
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a view developed by Freud that emphasizes the interplay of unconcious mental processes in determining human thought, feelings, and behavior
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behavioral approach
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an approach to psychology emphasizing that human behavior is determined mainly by what a person has learned, especially from rewards and punishments
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cognitive approach
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a way of looking at human behavior that emphasizes research on how the brain takes in information, creates perceptions, forms and retrieves memories, processes information, and generates integrated patterns of action
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humanistic approach
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an approach to psycohlogy that views behavior as controlled by the decisions that people make about their lives based on their perceptions of the world
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culture
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the accumulation of values, rules of behavior, forms of expression, religious beliefs, occupational choices, and the like for a group of people who share a common language and environment
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