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| 1603598231 | psychology | the study of the mind | 0 | |
| 1603598232 | G.Stanley Hall | -brief student of Withelm Wundut -First research lab on psychology at Johns Hopkins university, launched Americas first psychology journal, first president of the APA | 1 | |
| 1603598233 | natural selection | Charles Darwin -heritable characteristics that provide a survival or reproduction advantage are more likely than alternative characteristics to be passed on to subsequent generations and thus come to be selected over time | 2 | |
| 1604625702 | stream of consciousness | William James -unbroken and continuous thoughts despite constant shifts and changes. | 3 | |
| 1604625703 | James McKeen Cattell and John Dewey | began to investigate mental testing, patterns of development in children, the effectiveness of educational practices, and behavioral differences between the sexes. | 4 | |
| 1604625704 | Lea Stetter Hollingworth | -did pioneering work on adolescent development, mental retardation, and gifted children -first person to use "gifted" as a youngster with high intelligence -forced scientist to think about women as equal and not inferior to men with her expirements | 5 | |
| 1604625705 | Nature vs nuture | an argument that tells wether behavior is determined mainly by genetic inheritance or by environment and expirence | 6 | |
| 1604625706 | stimulis-response(S-R) psychology | a view of psychology to relate behaviors to observable events in the enviorement | 7 | |
| 1604625707 | B.F Skinner | -influenced by Ivan Palvov and John B. Watson -insisted internal mental activity could not be studied scientifically -organisms tend to repeat responses that lead to positive outcomes but not responses that led to neutral or negative outcomes | 8 | |
| 1604625708 | person-centered therapy | -Carl Rogers -identifies that each person has the capacity and desire for personal growth and change. | 9 | |
| 1604625709 | applied psychology | focuses on everyday, practical problems | 10 | |
| 1604625710 | clinical psychology | focuses on the diagnosis and treatments of psychological problems and disorders | 11 | |
| 1604625711 | Association for Psychological Science (APS) | advocates for the science of psychology | 12 | |
| 1604625712 | Cognition | mental process involved in acquiring knowledge | 13 | |
| 1604625713 | positive psychology movement | -started by Martin Seligman inspired by his daughter -augured that psychology in the past dedicated too much of its time to pathology, weakness, and damage which yielded valuable insights and progress. Also said that it resulted in people forgot how make life worth living. | 14 | |
| 1604625714 | positive psychology | the theory and research to better understand the positive,adaptive,creative,and fulfilling aspects of human existence | 15 | |
| 1604625715 | positive subjective expirences | positive emotions | 16 | |
| 1604625716 | positive individual traits | personal strengths and virtues | 17 | |
| 1604625717 | positive institutions and communities | focuses on how societies can have civil discourse, strong families, healthful work environments, and supportive neighborhood communities. | 18 | |
| 1604625718 | developmental psychology (areas of psych.) | focuses on human development across the life span such as from child development to old age | 19 | |
| 1604625719 | social psychology(areas of psych.) | focuses on how society affects behavior | 20 | |
| 1604625720 | educational psychology(areas of psych.) | focuses on how people learn and the best ways to teach them | 21 | |
| 1604625721 | health psychology(areas of psych.) | focuses on how psychological factors relate to physical health and the causation, prevention, and treatment of an illness. | 22 | |
| 1604625722 | physiological psychology(areas of psych.) | focuses on how genetic factors influence behavior and the role of the brain | 23 | |
| 1604625723 | experimental psychology (areas of psych.) | focuses on the traditional core topics that psychology focused heavy on when it first started | 24 | |
| 1604625724 | cognitive psychology(areas of psych.) | focuses on "higher" mental processes: memory, reasoning, creativity, etc. | 25 | |
| 1604625725 | psychometric(areas of psych.) | focuses on the measurement of behavior and capacities through psychological test; development of new techniques for statical analysis | 26 | |
| 1604625726 | personality(areas of psych.) | describing and understanding and individuals consistency in behavior | 27 | |
| 1604625727 | epiricism | the premise knowledge should be acquired through observations | 28 | |
| 1604625728 | multifactorial causation of behavior | behavior is governed by a complex network of interacting factors | 29 | |
| 1604625729 | culture | refers to customs, beliefs, values, norms, institutions, and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations | 30 |
