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Psychology Unit 1
Term | Definition |
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SQ3R | A study method incorporating five steps: survey, question, read, rehearse, review |
Psychiatry | A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who often provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy |
Clinical Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
Counseling Psychology | A branch of psychology that assists people with problems living (often related to school, work or marriage) and in achieving greater well being |
Human Factors Psychology | The study of how people and machines interact and the design of safe and easily used machines and environments |
Industrial-Organizational Psychology | The application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces |
Applied Research | Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems |
Social Psychology | The scientific study of how we think about, influence and relate to one another |
Personality Psychology | The study of an individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting |
Educational Psychology | The study of how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning |
Developmental Psychology | The scientific study of how physical, cognitive and social change throughout the life span |
Basic Research | Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledges base |
Psychometrics | The scientific study of the measurement of human abilities |
Social-Cultural Psychology | The study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking |
Cognitive Psychology | The scientific study of all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicate |
Behavioral Psychology | The scientific study of observable behavior and its explanation by principles of learning |
Psychodynamic Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders |
Evolutionary Psychology | The study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection |
Biological Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies the links between biological and psychological processes |
Biopsychosocial Approach | An inter grated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis |
Levels of Analysis | The differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon |
Natural Selection | The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations |
Nature-Nurture Issue | The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today's science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture |
Psychology | The science of behavior and mental processes |
Cognitive Neuroscience | The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition |
Humanistic Psychology | Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individuals potential for personal growth |
Behaviorism | The view that (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. |
Experimental Psychology | The study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method |
Functionalism | A school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral process function |
Structuralism | An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind |
Empiricism | The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation |