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| the science behavior and mental processes |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| psychologists who test IQs, diagnose students' academic problems, and set up programs to improve students' achievements |
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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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| psychologists who explore the relationships between athletic performance and such psychological variables as motivation and emotion. |
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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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| 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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| an approach to psychology that emphasizes the inherited, adpative aspects of behavior and mental processes. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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