Prologue
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| 298670135 | psychology | scientific study of behavior and mental process | |
| 298670136 | empiricism | view that knowledge comes from experience via senses and science flourishes through observation and experiment | |
| 298670137 | strucuralism | early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind | |
| 298670138 | Wilhelm Wundt | established 1st psychology laboratory at the UNiversity of Leipzig, Germany | |
| 298670139 | functionalism | school of psychology that focused on how mental & behavioral processes function- how they enable the organism to adapt, survive and flourish | |
| 298670140 | humanistic psychology | historically significan perspective that empjasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth | |
| 298670141 | nature-nurture issue | longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors | |
| 298670142 | natural selection | principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations | |
| 298670143 | levels of analysis | differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon | |
| 298670144 | biopsychosocial approach | integrated perspective that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis | |
| 298670146 | basic research | pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base | |
| 298670148 | applied research | scientific study that aims to solve practical problems | |
| 298670151 | counseling psychology | branch of psychology that assist people with problems in living (often related to school, work, or marriage) and in achieving greater well-being | |
| 298670153 | clinical psychology | branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders | |
| 298670155 | psychiatry | branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicans who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy |