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| Having to do with an organisms physical processes. |
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| Having to do with an organisms thinking and understanding. |
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| scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research and applied. |
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| 1st of the four goals of Psychology, Observe and describe behavior. |
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| 2nd of the goals of Psychology, explain why people and animals behave in certain ways. |
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| 3rd of the goals of Psychology, predict behavior using accumulated knowledge and theory. |
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| 4th of the goals of Psychology, apply knowledge to change behavior. |
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| a scientifically testable assumption about behavior. |
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| Used to explain human and animal behavior, offered for scientific study. |
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| Pursuit of science and knowledge for it's own sake. |
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| Applying science and knowledge in the real would. |
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| A scientific approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized. |
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| Investigated the brain and behavior to see the underlying patterns that can explain behavior. |
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| A method of self-observation in which participants report thoughts and feelings. |
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| Founder of modern Psychology, a structuralist. |
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| First to ask questions that relate to Psychology |
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| Investigated the purpose of behavior to understand and explain why behavior exists. |
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| Investigated the whole pattern or totality of the experience to gain insight on behavior. |
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| Believed that all traits like IQ, personality, and behavior where inherited. |
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| Investigated the unconscious, through dream analysis and free association to understand our conscious behavior. |
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| Investigating behavior as based on response to events and the environment. |
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| "Pavlov's Dogs" a Behaviorist |
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| Behaviorist that used reinforcement, both positive and negative |
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| Behaviorist that used rats in mazes and believed that Psychology had to use measurable observations to become a science. |
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| Investigate how Biological factors influence our behavior such as genetics and chemicals. |
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| Investigate how we process and store information and how this impacts behavior. |
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| Investigates how individual or self directed choices influence |
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| Investigates how ethnicity, gender, and culture impact behavior |
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| A scientist who studies the mind and behavior of humans and animals. |
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| A branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. |
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| A psychologist that treats people with emotional disturbances. |
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| A psychologist that helps people deal with problems of living. |
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| Developmental Psychologist |
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| A psychologist who studies emotional, cognitive, and biological changes that occur over time as an individual matures. |
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| A psychologist that helps students with learning problems. |
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| A psychologist that works with a social welfare agency. |
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| Organizational Psychologist |
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| A psychologist that uses psychological knowledge in the workplace environment. |
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| Experimental Psychologist |
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| A psychologist that studies sensation, perception, learning, and motivation in a controlled laboratory conditions. |
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