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Psychology
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The scientific study of behavior and mental process.
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Behavior
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Any action that other people can observe or measure.
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Cognitive Activities
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Mental processes
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Psychological constructs
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Constructs used to talk about something we cant see, touch, or measure directly
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Theory
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A statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are, and happen the way they do
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Principle
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A rule or law
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Basic Search
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A research that has no immediate application and is done for its own sake
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Introspection
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"Looking within"
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Associationism
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A learned connection between 2 ideas or events
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Structuralism
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The school of psychology founded by Wilhelm Wundt, that maintains that conscious experience breaks down into objective sensations and subjective feelings
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Functionalism
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The school of psychology founded William James, that emphasizes the purposes of behavior and mental processes
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Behaviorism
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The school of psychology founded by John Watson that defines psychology as the scientific study of observable behavior
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Gestalt Psychology
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The school of psychology that emphasizes that tendency to organize perceptions into meaningful wholes.
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Psychoanalysis
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Emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal conflicts in determining human behavior
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Psychodynamic thinking
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The theory that most of what fills individual mind is unconscious and consist of conflicting impulses , urges, and wishes
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