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Unit 1

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Term
Definition
show The branch of psychology concerned with everyday, practical problems  
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Behavior   show
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Behaviorism   show
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show The branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders  
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show The mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge  
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Critical Thinking   show
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show The widely shared customs, beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations  
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Empiricism   show
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show The tendency to view one's own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways  
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Evolutionary Psychology   show
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Functionalism   show
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Humanism   show
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show Careful, systematic observation of one's own conscious experience  
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Natural selection   show
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show Approach to psychology that uses theory and research to better understand the positive, adaptive, creative, and fulfilling aspects of human existence.  
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Psychiatry   show
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Psychoanalytic Theory   show
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Psychology   show
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show A study system designed to promote effective reading by means of five steps: survey, question, read, recite, and review.  
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show A school of psychology based on the notion that the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and to investigate how these elements are related  
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Testwiseness   show
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show A system of interrelated ideas that is used to explain a set of observations  
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show According to Freud, thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of conscious awareness but that nonetheless exert great influence on behavior  
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Gestalt Psychology   show
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Wilhelm Wundt   show
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show Englishman who came to the United States in 1892 and contributed his idea of structuralism to psychology.  
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William James   show
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show Physician who came up with the concept of psychoanalysis and developed the idea of the unconsciousness.  
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show Established the first research laboratory for psychology in America, launched the first psychology journal, and also established the American psychological Association(APA)  
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John B. Watson   show
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show A highly acclaimed psychologist that was strongly against the idea of free will and a believer of the concept of the environment having complete control of each individual's behavior.  
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Carl Rogers   show
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Martin Seligman   show
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Mary Whiton calkins   show
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show Performed pioneering work on adolescent development, mental retardation, and gifted children; carried out experiments to refute the allegation that women are less superior to men  
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show Another important figure in the humanistic movement who harped on the self drive of human beings to thrive  
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show Psychologist that was against dividing thoughts and behavior as two separate entities  
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Ivan Pavlov   show
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Jean Piaget   show
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Charles Darwin   show
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show First woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology, second female president of the APA  
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