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Psychology Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders | psychiatry |
| A clinical psychologist may work in a setting such as a ______ | hospital |
| A complex explanation based on findings from a largest number of experimental studies is a ______ | theory |
| A hypothesis is an _________ | educated guess |
| A prediction about behavior that will be tested through research is referred to as a ________ | hypothesis |
| A psychiatrist is different from a psychologist because a psychiatrist can so what? | prescribe medication to patients |
| A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in their environment | behaviorist |
| A psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth | humanist |
| A psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances | clinical psychologists |
| A psychologist who may study how public opinion is formed | social psychologists |
| A psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior, feelings, and thoughts | psychoanalyst |
| A psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how thought processes influence our behavior | cognitivist |
| A psychologist who studies the actions of the conscious mind and the goals or purposes of behaviors | functionalist |
| A psychologist who studies the emotional, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur as an individual matures | developmental psychologist |
| A psychologist who uses the results of sleep research to solve a patient's sleep problem is practicing __________ | applied science |
| A psychologist who usually helps people deal with their problems of everyday | counselling psychologist |
| A set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific study | theory |
| After studying the results of a number of studies, a psychologist might propose what kind of explanation for human behavior? | a theory |
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