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Psychology
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The scientif study of behavior and mental processes
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Scientific Method
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Collecting data, generating a theory to explain the data, producing hypoth. based on the theory, testing those hypotheses through experiments
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Theory
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It organizes known facts, allows us to predict new facts, and permits us to exercise a degree of control over the phenomenon
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Hypotheses
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Specific, testable predictions derived from a theory
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Structuralism
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School of psychology that stresses the basic units of experience and the combinations in which they occur
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Functionalist theory
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Theory of mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to function in its environment
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Psychodynamic theories
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Personality theories contending that behavior results from psychological factors that interact within the indiv often outside conscious awareness
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Behaviorism
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School of psychology that studies only observable and measurable behavior
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Gestalt Psychology
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School of psychology that studies how people perceive and experience objects as whole patterns
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Humanistic psychology
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School of psychology that empasizes nonverbal experience and altered states of consciousness as a means of realizing one's full human potential
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Cognitive psychology
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School of psychology devoted to the study of mental processes in the broadest sense
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Evolutionary psychology
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An approach to, and subfield of psychology concerned with the evolutionary origins of behaviors
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Evolutionary psychology looks at
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The evolutionary origins of behaviors and mental processes, their adaptive value, and the purposes they continue to serve
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Positive psychology focuses on positive experiences including
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Subjective well being, self determination, the relation between pos.emotions & phys. health, and the factors that allow indiv., comm., and soc. thrive
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Positive psychology seeks to understand more about hume strengths and virtues such as
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Altruism, tolerance, happiness, philanthropy and wisdom
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