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Psychology
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The scientific study of behavior and mind
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Mind
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The contents and processes of subjective experience: sensations, thoiughts, and emotions
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Behavior
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Observable actions such as moving about, talking, gesturin, and so on; behaviors can also refer to the activities of cells and to thoughts and feelings
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Clinical psychologists
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Psychologists who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems.
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Psychaitrists
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Medical doctors who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological probelms
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Applied psychologists
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Psychologists who extend the principles of scientific psychology to practical problems in the world.
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Research psychologists
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Psychologists who try to discoer the basic principles of behavior and mind.
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Empiricism
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The idea that knowledge comes directly from experience.
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Nativism
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The idea that some knowledge is innate, or present at birth.
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Gestalt psychology
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A movement proposing that certain organizing principles of preception are innate and cannote be altered by experience.
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Structuralism
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An early school of psychology; structuralists tried to understand the mind by breaking it down into basic parts, much as chemist might try to understand a chemical compound.
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Systematic introspection
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An early technique used to study the mind; systematic introspection required people to look inward and describe their own experiences.
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Functionalism
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An early school of psychology; functionalists believed that the proper way to understand mind and behavior is to first analyze their funtion and purpose.
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Behaviorism
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A school of psychology proposing tha tthe only proper subject matter of psychology is observable behavior rather than immediate conscious experience.
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Psychoanalysis
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A term used by Freud to describe his theory of mind and system of therapy.
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