7818878313 | Biological Perspective | An approach to psychology in which behavior/behavior disorders are seen as the result of the genetic code of humans | ![]() | 0 |
7818878314 | Evolutionary Perspective | An approach to psychology that emphasizes the inherited ( and adaptive aspects of behavior and mental processes | ![]() | 1 |
7818878315 | Psychodynamic Perspective | A view developed by Freud that emphasizes the interplay of unconscious mental process in determining human thought, feelings, and behavior | ![]() | 2 |
7818878316 | Behavioral Perspective | An approach to psychology emphasizing that human are a product of their environment and are determined mainly by what a person has learned, especially from rewards and punishments | ![]() | 3 |
7818878317 | Cognitive Perspective | A way of looking at human behavior that emphasizes research on how the brain takes information, creates perceptions, forms and retrieves memories, process information, and generates integrated patterns of action | ![]() | 4 |
7818878318 | Sport Psychologists | Psychologists who explore relationships between athletic performance and psychological variables as motivation and emotion | 5 | |
7818878319 | Environmental Psychologists | Psychologists who study the effects of the physical environment on behavior and mental process | 6 | |
7818878320 | Neuroscience | The scientific study of all levels of the nervous system, including neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neurology, neurophysiology, and neuropharmacology | ![]() | 7 |
7818878321 | Positive Psychology | A field of research that focuses on people's positive experiences and characteristics, such as happiness, optimism, and resilience | 8 | |
7818878322 | Psychology | The science of human behavior and mental processes of the brain | ![]() | 9 |
7818878323 | Biological Psychology | Psychologists who analyze the biological factors influencing behavior and mental processes | ![]() | 10 |
7818878324 | Cognitive Psychologists | Psychologists who study the mental processes as we develop over the life course and how at different stages, that can affect judgment, decision making, problem solving, imaging, and other aspects of human thought or cognition | 11 | |
7818878325 | Engineering Pyschology | A field in which psychologists study human factors in the use of equipment and help designers create better versions of that equipment | 12 | |
7818878326 | Developmental Psychology | Psychologists who seek to understand, describe, and explore how behavior and mental processes change over a lifetime | ![]() | 13 |
7818878327 | Personality Psychologists | Psychologists who study the characteristics that make individuals similar to or different from one another | ![]() | 14 |
7818878328 | Clinical and Counseling Psychologists | Psychologists who seek to asses, understand, and change abnormal behavior through treatment and medicine | ![]() | 15 |
7818878329 | Educational Psychologists | Psychologists who study methods by which instructors teach and students learn and who apply their results to improving those methods | ![]() | 16 |
7818878330 | Social Psychologists | Psychologists who study how people influence one another's behavior and mental processes, individually and in groups | ![]() | 17 |
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