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Psychology: Prologue
Question | Answer |
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Psychology | the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
Empericism | the view that (a) knowledge comes form experience via senses and (b) science flourishes through observation and experiment |
Functionalism | school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes funtion and enable an organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. |
Humanistic Psychology | emphasized growth potentiol of healthy people; studied personality in hopes of fostering personal growth. |
Nature-Nurture issue | controversy over contributions of genes and experience to development |
Natural Selection | best traits that enable survival will be passes on |
Levels of Analysis | different views for analyzing a phenomenon |
Biopsychosocial approach | integrated perspective that incorproates all levels of analysis |
Basic Research | pure science that aims to increase knowledge |
Applied Research | study that aims to solve practical problems |
Counseling Psychology | assists people with problems in living and achieving greater wellbeing |
Clinical Psychology | studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
Psychiatry | branch of medicing dealing with psychological disorders. Can provide medicine as well as therapy. |