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| 14736974710 | Nature vs. Nurture | name for a controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or environment is responsible for driving behavior | 0 | |
| 14736978900 | Natural Selection | a process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits | 1 | |
| 14737008724 | Charles Darwin | - English natural scientist - formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection | 2 | |
| 14737013840 | Biopsychosocial Approach | integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis | 3 | |
| 14737078782 | Behavioral Approach | An approach to psychology emphasizing the scientific study of observable behavioral responses prompted by the environment | 4 | |
| 14737229805 | Biological Approach | - how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences - how genes combine with environment to influence individual differences | 5 | |
| 14737236319 | Cognitive Approach | how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information | 6 | |
| 14737238910 | Evolutionary Approach | how the natural selection of traits promoted the survival of genes | 7 | |
| 14737241332 | Humanistic Approach | how we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment | 8 | |
| 14737246051 | Psychodynamic Approach | how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts | 9 | |
| 14737282599 | Social-Cultural Approach | how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures | 10 | |
| 14737286308 | Cognitive Psychology | the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | 11 | |
| 14737289172 | Evolutionary Psychology | the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection | 12 | |
| 14737292958 | Psychodynamic Psychology | studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders | 13 | |
| 14737297901 | Social Psychology | the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another | 14 | |
| 14737309550 | Social-Cultural Psychology | the study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking | 15 | |
| 14737315420 | Psychometric Psychology | the scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits | 16 | |
| 14737317324 | Basic Research | pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base | 17 | |
| 14737320921 | Developmental Psychology | studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span | 18 | |
| 14737323482 | Educational Psychology | the study of how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning | 19 | |
| 14737327041 | Applied Research | scientific study that aims to solve practical problems | 20 | |
| 14737330733 | Industrial-Organizational (I/O) psychology | the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in the workplace | 21 | |
| 14737335907 | Human Factors Psychology | subfield of i/o of psychology that explores how people and machines interact and how machines and physical environments can be made safe and easy to use | 22 | |
| 14737349090 | 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 | 23 | |
| 14737351094 | Clinical Psychology | a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders | 24 | |
| 14737354754 | Psychiatry | pysicians provide medical treatments/sometimes give psychologicial therapy | 25 | |
| 14737364712 | Positive Psychology | study of human functioning, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive | 26 | |
| 14737366816 | Community Psychology | studies how people interact with their social environments and how social institutions affect individuals and groups | 27 |
