Vocab for Prologue Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Empiricism | The view that (a) knowledge comes from experience via the senses, and (b) science flourishes through observation and experiment. |
Structuralism | An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind |
Functionalism | A school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish. |
Psychology | The science of behavior and mental processes. |
Nature-nurtrue issue | The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. |
Natural selection | The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succedding generations. |
Basic research | Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
Applied research | Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems |
Clinical psychology | A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
Psychiatry | A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy |
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