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| community psychology | branch of psychology that studies how people interact with their social environments and how social institutions affect individuals and groups |
| educational psychology | the study of how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning |
| counseling psychology | branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being |
| cognitive neuroscience | interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked w cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language) |
| empiricism | view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should rely on observation and experimentation |
| experimental psychology | study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method |
| behaviorism | view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes |
| biological psychology | explore the links between brain and mind scientific study of the links between biological and psychological processes |
| behavioral psychology | the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning |
| basic research | pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
| applied research | scientific study that aims to solve practical problems |
| biopsychosocial approach | an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis |
| personality psychology | study of an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
| psychiatry | branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy |
| positive psychology | scientific study of human functioning with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive |
| psychodynamic psychology | branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders |
| psychology | science of behavior and mental processes |
| psychometrics | branch of psych devoted to studying, the measurement of our abilities, attitudes, and traits |
| natural selection | the principle that among the range of invented trait variations, those contributing to production and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations |
| nature-nature issue | the long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. |
| SQ3R | a study method incorporating 5 steps: survey, question, read, retrieve, and review |
| social psychology | exploring how we view and affect one another scientific study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another |
| social-cultural psychology | the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking |
| structuralism | early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titcchner; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind |
| levels of analysis | the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon |
| human factors psychology | an I/O psychology subfield that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use |
| humanistic psychology | historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people |
| industrial-organizational psychology | the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces |
| evolutionary psychology | the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection |
| functionalism | early school of thought promoted by James and influenced by Darwin; explored how mental and behavioral processes function- how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish |
| developmental psychology | a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span |
| testing effect | enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply rereading, information |
| cognitive psychology | the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
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