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Psychology Chapter 1

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