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| The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. |
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| The inherited biological factors that shape behaviors, personality, and other characteristics. |
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| The environmental factors that shape behaviors, personality, and other characteristics. |
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| Research focused on changing behaviors and outcomes, often with a focus on real-world application |
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| Scholarly research focused on gathering datea to either support or refute a theory, with no focus on real-world application. |
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| Hindsight bias (creeping determinism) |
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| The inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis for predicting it. |
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Describe
Explain
Predict
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| Psychology centering on the analysis of the structure or content of conscious mental states by introspective methods such as self-reporting about feelings, emotions, sensations. |
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| Psychology aimed to identify the function of thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and mental processes. |
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| A variable that stands alone and isn't changed by the other variables you are trying to measure. |
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| A variable that depends on other factors. |
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| Use of knowledge about evolutionary forces to understand behavior. |
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| Biopsychosocial Perspective |
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| Examination of the biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors influencing behavior. |
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| Maintaining an optimistic focus on human behavior; the belief that each person is a master of his own fate. |
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| Psychoanalytic Perspective |
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| The interest in abnormal functioning and unconscious thought; the belief personality is shaped by unconscious conflict. |
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| The interest in studying only behavior that can be observed and measured. |
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| The use of knowledge about underlying physiology to explain behavior and mental processes. |
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| The renewed focus on mental processes, including physiological explanations. |
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| Sociocultural Perspective |
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| The understanding of behavior by examining influences of other people and the larger culture. |
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| A statement that tests the predictions about the outcome of a study. |
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| A controlled procedure to test scientific observations. |
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| A synthesis of observations in order to explain phenomena. |
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| Members of a population have an equal chance of being selected. |
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| A group of people with characteristics similar to those in the group of interest. |
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| A type of investigation psychologists use to explore a phenomenon. It is primarily concerned with describing, and is useful for studying new or unexplored topics when researchers might not have specific expectations about outcomes. |
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