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expert on renaissance and contemporary music
lost memory: brain infection |
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| origin: term "psychology" |
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| events that cause other events to occur |
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| fun fact: cure to scurvy for sailors |
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| James Cook fed the sailors sauerkraut |
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| term: Physiological psychology |
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| examines the physiology of behavior |
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| term: comparative psychology |
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| studies multiple species behaviors to explain evolutionary adaptation to environment |
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| studies effects of environmental events on behavior |
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| studies the role of genetics in behavior |
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| term: cognitive psychology |
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| study of mental processes and complex behaviors |
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| term: developmental psychology |
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| study of physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development, esp in children |
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| study of the effects of people on people |
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| term: personality psychology |
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| study of individual differences in temperament and patterns of behavior |
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| term: evolutionary psychology |
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| explains cognitive, social, and personality aspects of psychology by looking at the adaptive significance during evolution of modern species |
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| term: cross-cultural psychology |
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| study of the impact of culture on behavior |
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| term: clinical psychology |
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| study of mental disorders and problems of adjustment |
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| person: clinical neuropsychologist |
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| specializes in the identification and treatment of the behavioral consequences of nervous system disorders and injuries |
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| person: health psychologist |
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| works to promote behavior and lifestyles that improve and maintain health and prevent illness |
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| person: school psychologist |
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| deals with the behavioral problems of students at school |
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| person: consumer psychologist |
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| helps organizations that manufacture products or that buy products or services |
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| person: community psychologist |
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| works for the well being of individuals in the social system, attempting to improve the system rather than treating people as problems |
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| person: organizational psychologist |
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| works to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations |
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| person: engineering psychologist |
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| studies the ways that people and machines work together and helps design machines that are safer and easier to operate |
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| person: forensic psychologist |
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| studies human behavior as it may relate to the legal system and to matters involving criminal justice |
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| belief that all animals and all moving objects possess spirits providing their motive force |
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| father of modern philosophy, describes phenomena using sensory experience and human reasoning |
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| automatic response to a stimulus |
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| belief that reality consists of mind and matter |
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| view that all knowledge is obtained through the senses |
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| reality can be known only through an understanding of physical world, of which the mind is a part |
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| term: doctrine of specific nerve energies |
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| Muller's observation that different nerve fibers convery specific information from one part of the body to the brain or from the brain to one part of the body |
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| term: experimental ablation |
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| removal of a portion of brain to study the function of given region |
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| person: Hermann Helmholtz |
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| extremely productive scientist; dealt with nerve impulses |
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| fun fact: speed of human nerve impulses is? |
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| measures the quantitative relation between physical stimuli and perceptual experience |
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| experimental psychology that began with Wilhelm Wundt; emphasizes introspective analysis of sensation and perception |
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| looking within in an attempt to describe memories, perceptions, cognitive processes, or motivations |
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| (perceiving and learning) understanding species' behaviors and other processes in terms of their biological significance |
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| proposed a theory of emotion considered a durable psychological theory to this day |
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| observable behavior is considered the proper matter for scientific study |
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| term: humanistic psychology |
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| study of human behavior that emphasizes experience, choice and creativity, self-realization, and positive growth |
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| emphasized that cognitive processes could be understood by studying their organization, no their elements |
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