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psychology:The scien
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| psychologist | try to describe, explain, and predict human behavior and mental processes. |
| neuroscientist | attempt to understand the biological roots of behavior |
| Developmental psychology | studies the ways the human life cycle |
| Structuralism | developed in the late nineteenth century as one of the earliest views of human behavior. In 1879, a German researcher named Wilhelm Wundt became interested in how people respond to a stimulus. |
| stimulus | is anything that causes a response or a reaction of some kind. |
| stimuli | is the plural of stimulus. Ex. Heat, light, pinrick, or loud noises |