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| based on the motion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related |
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| the careful, systematic self-observation of one's own conscious experience |
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| based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure |
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| hertiable characteristics that provide a survival or reproductive advantage are more likely than alternative characteristics to be passed on to subsequent generations and thus come to be "selected" over time |
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| a theorectical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behaviour |
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| any overt (observable) response or activity by an organism |
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| any detectable input from the environment |
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| thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but that nontheless exert great influence on behaviour |
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| attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behaviour |
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| a theorectical orientation that emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth |
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| the branch of psychology concerned with everyday, practical problems |
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| the branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders |
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| the mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge |
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| the tendency to view one's own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways |
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| examines behavioural processes in terms of their adaptive value for members of a species over the course of many generations |
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| uses theory and research to better understand the positive, adaptive, creative, and fulfilling aspects of human existence |
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| the science that studies behaviour and the physiological and cofnitive provesses that underlie it, and it is the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems |
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| a branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders |
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| the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation |
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| a system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations |
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| the widely shared customs, beliefs, values, norms, instituitions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations |
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