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| Branch of Medicine dealing with psychological disorders. |
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| Branch of Psychology that studies/asseses/treats people with psychological disorders. |
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| Branch of Psychology that assists people with living/relationship problems. |
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| Study of how people/machines interact;design of safe/easily used machines/environments |
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| Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology |
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| Application of psychological concepts/methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces |
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| scientific study aiming to solve problems |
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| scientific of how we think about/influence/relate to one another |
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| Study of an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking/feeling/acting |
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| study of how psychological processes affect/CAN enhance teaching/learning |
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| Scientific study of physical/cognitive/social change through time |
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| science aiming to increase knowledge base. |
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| scientific study of measurement of human ability, attitudes, traits. |
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| Social-Cultural Psychology |
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| Study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking |
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| scientific study of all mental activities associated with thinking/knowing/remembering/communicating |
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| Scientific study of observable behaviour + explanation by principles of learning |
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| Branch of psychology studying unconscious drives/conflicts influence behaviour, uses info to treat psychological disorders |
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| Study of roots of behaviour and menta processes using natural selection principle |
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| branch of psychology that studies links between biological/psychological processes |
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| Integrated approach incorporating biological/psychological/social-cultural levels of analysis |
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| Differeing complementary views from biological to psychological to socio-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon |
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| Principle that the best suited to survive will go on to continue their genes. |
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| Issue over inherent traits vs learned skills/traits/behaviors. IE "Nature will out" story |
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| Science of behaviour and mental processes |
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| Inter-disciplinary study of brain activity linked with cognition (perception, thought, memory, language0 |
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| Historically significant perspective emphasizing potential growth of healthy people/individual potential for development. |
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View that psychology
1. Should be objective
2. Studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
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| Study of behaviour and thinking using experimental method |
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| School of psychology focusing on mental and behavioural processes enable adaptation, survival, flourishment |
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| An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind |
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| View that knowledge originates in experience and science should be based on observation/experimentation |
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