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Psychology
Chapter 1 Amanda
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a psychologist? | person who has been trained to observe, analyze, and evaluate human and animal behavior. |
| What is a clinical psychologist? | helps people deal with their personal problems |
| what is a counseling psychologists? | usually works in sschools, or industrial firms, advising and assisting people with problems of everyday life |
| what wis a psychiatry? | a specialty of medicine |
| what is a developmental psychologist? | study physical, emotional, cognitive, and social changes that occur thoughtout life |
| what is a educational psychologist? | deals with teaching children and young adults, such as intelligence, memory, problem solving and motivation |
| what is a community psychologist? | works with mental health or soical welfare agency operated by the state or local goverment |
| what is a industrial/organizatiohnal psychologists? | employed by bussiness firms and goverment agencie's |
| what is a experimental psychologist? | research to understand how humans or animals operate physically |
| what is a applied science? | discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical goals |
| what is a basic science? | the pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake |
| what is a cognitive? | having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding |
| what is a hypothesis? | prediction or educated guess |
| what is a physiological? | having to do with an organism's physical needs |
| what is psychology? | the scientific, systematic study of behaviors and mental processes |
| what is the scientific method? | a general approach to gathering information and ansering questions so that errors and biases are minimized |
| what is a theory? | a set of assumptions used to explain why something is the way it is and happens the way it does |
| what is a functionalist? | study of how animals and people adapt to their enviroments |
| what is a behaviorist? | psychologists who stressed investigating observable behavior |
| what is a cognitivists? | focus on how we process,store, and use information |
| what is a humanist? | thinks each person has freedom in direct to there future |
| what is a psychobiologists? | study of how the brain,nervous system,hormones, and genetics influence our behavior |
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