Ch.1 AP Voc.
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| Structuralism | based on the notation that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related
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| Functionalism | Based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness,rather than its structure
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| Natural Selection | Heritable characteristics that provide a survival or reproductive advantage are more likely than alternative characteristics to be passed down through the generation
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| Unconscious | Thoughts,memories, and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on behavior.
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| Psychoanalytic Theory | attempts to explain personality,motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior
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| Behaviorism | theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behavior.
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| Behavior | Refers to any overt response or activity by an organism
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| Applied psychology | Branch of psychology concerned with everyday practical problems
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| Clinical Psychology | Branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders
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| Cognition | mental processes involved in acquiring information
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| Ethnocentrism | tendency to view one's own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways
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| Evolutionary Psychology | Examines behavioral processes in terms of their adaptive value for members of a species over the course of many generations
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| Positive Psychology | Uses theory and research to better understand the positive, adaptive, creative, and fulfilling aspects of human nature
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| Empiricism | Premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation
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| Theory | system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations
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| Culture | Widely shared customs,beliefs,values,norms,institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations.
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| Critical thinking | use of cognitive skills and strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome
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