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| the science of mental processes and behavior. |
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| - what you brain are doing not only when you engage in “thinking” activities such as storing memories, recognizing objects, and using language, but also when you feel depressed, jump for joy, or savor the experience of being in love. |
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| The type of psychologist who provides psychotherapy and is trained to administer and interpret psychological tests. |
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| The process of helping clients learn to change so therapy can cope with troublesome thoughts, feelings and behaviors. |
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| Clinical neuropsychologists- |
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| work specifically with tests designed to diagnose the effects of brain damage on thoughts, feelings and behavior to indicate which parts of the brain were impaired by trauma. |
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| trained to help people with issues that naturally arise during the course of life. |
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| a physician who focuses on mental disorders; unlike psychologists, psychiatrists can prescribe drugs but are not trained to administer and interpret psychological tests, nor research. |
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| a mental health professional who uses psychotherapy to help families (and individuals) and teaches clients to use the social service systems in their communities. |
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| a nurse with a master’s degree and a clinical specialization in psychiatric nursing who provides psychotherapy and works with medical doctors to monitor and administer medications. |
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| focuses on teaching and conducting research. |
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| Developmental psychology- |
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| the study of how thinking, feeling, and behaving develops with age and experience. |
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| studies thinking, memory and related topics. |
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| studies how people think and feel about themselves and other people and how groups function. |
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| Personality psychologists- |
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| studies individual differences in preferences and inclinations. |
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| studies how to improve products and procedures and conducts research to help solve specific practical problems. Use the principles and theories of psychology in areas such as education, industry, and marketing. |
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| Human factors psychologist- |
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| a professional who works to improve products so that people can use them more intuitively and effectively. |
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| Industrial/ organizational psychologist- |
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| focuses on using psychology in the workplace. |
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| works with athletes to help them improve their performances. |
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| Educational or School Psychologist- |
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| works with educators to devise ways to improve cognitive, emotional, and social development of school children. |
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| first of Edward Titchener’s students to earn a Ph.D. (1894) |
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| first woman to become president of the American Psychological Association (1905). |
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| involves specifying a problem, systematically observing events, forming a hypothesis of the relation between variables, collecting new observations to test the hypothesis, using such evidence to formulate and support a theory, and finally testing the theory. |
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