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| scientific study of behavior and mental process |
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| anything an organism does |
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| internal experiences we infer from behavior |
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| when people think they can predict the outcome of a situation after they have found out the outcome |
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| opened first psychology lab in 1879, University of Leipzig, Germany |
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| neuroscientific perspective |
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| how body and brain create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences |
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| natural selection favors traits that lead to the perpetuation of one's genes |
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| studies processing, storing, and retrieval of information |
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| studies how we learn and unlern observable responses |
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| psychoanalytic perspective |
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| focuses on how behavior springs from unconcious/concious drives |
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| socio-cultural perspective |
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| focuses on how behavior and thinking vary across different cultures and situations |
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| provides assesment treatment of psychological and emotional problems |
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| medical doctor who deals in a branch of medicine devoted to studying psychological problem (power to diagnose and prescribe medication) |
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| broad set of assumptions about two or more phenomena |
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| a specific, testable question that gives direction to research |
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| experimental/scientific method |
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1. derive hypothesis from theory
2. select sample from population
3. randomly assign sample into groups
4. collect data and record results
5. draw conclusions |
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