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Nason Prologue
Prologue Vocab
| Vocab Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Psychology | the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
| Empiricism | the view that a) knowledge comes from experience, and b) science flourishes through observation and experiment |
| Structuralism | an early school of psychology that used interspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind |
| Functionalism | a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function- how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish |
| Humanistic Psychology | historically signifigant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth |
| Nature-Nurture Issue | the long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the develeopment of psychological traits and behaviors |
| Natural Selection | the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will be most likely be passed on to succeeding generations |
| Levels of Analysis | the differing complimentary views, from biological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon |
| Biopsychosocial Approach | an integrated perspective that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis |
| Basic Research | pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge basis |
| Applied Research | scientific study that aims to save problems |
| Counseling Psychology | branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and in achieving greater well being |
| Clinical Psychology | a branch of psychology that treats and studies people with problems and psychological disorders |
| Psychiatry | a branch of medicin dealing with psychological disorders, practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medicince (drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy |