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Psychology   the scientific study of behavior and mental process  
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mind   mental processes and our subject experiences  
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science   the operation of general laws, especially as obtained and tested through the scientific method  
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empiricism   the therory of knowledge that assumes that knowledge should be based on observation.  
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pseudoscience   information that appears scientific but is based on unsound scientific principles  
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philosophy   study of knowledge and exsistance  
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physiology   a branch of biology that studies internal biological processes  
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structuralism   the school of psyc that studies human experience by breaking it down into smaller pieces  
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introspection   examine ones own mental process  
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ancedotal evidence   a type of information that relies on unscientific observation  
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functionalism   school of psyc concerned with the purposes of behavior and mental process  
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eclectic model   an approch that pulls together multiple ways of examining a particular problem or question  
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biopsychosocial approach   theory recognizing three equally important aspects of human mental processes and behavior:biological, psychological, and social  
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levels of analysis   various ways of examining the same phenomenon  
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neuroscience   the study of the brain and nervous system, also called biological psychology  
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positron emission tomography PET   neuroscience imaging technique that uses radioactive glucose to indicate the areas of activity  
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functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI   neuroscience imaging technique used to measure changes in blood flow  
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evolutionary psychology   a branch of psychology that examines the impact of natural selection on behavioral and mental processes  
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natural selection   varying success in reproduction resulting from the interaction of an organism with the environment  
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heritability   how much of a characteristic can be linked to genetics as opposed to the environment  
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psychoanalytical theory   a family of theories originated by freud that focuses on unconscious motivation  
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unconscious   according to freud thoughts memories feelings and wishes that reside outside of awareness  
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basic research   a type of research concerned with expanding knowledge, even if the knowledge has no practical application  
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applied research   a type of research concerned with solving everyday problems  
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empirical   research studies that gain information by carefully collecting observations & data  
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psychological science   research conducted on topics in the field of psychology  
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theory   overarching conception about how variables may cause behavior  
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hypothesis   a clear statement that can be shown to be true or false in an experiment  
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participant   a volunteer who agrees to take part in research studies also called a subject  
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journal   a publication containing articles written by scientists that are reviewed before publication by a group of peers  
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between subjects design   research plan which different people take part in differing aspects of the study and the different groups are compared  
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within subjects design   a research plan in which each subject takes part in every aspect of the study  
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reactivity   unintentionally altering natural behavior by attempting to measure it  
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replicable   results from a research study that appears the same when the study is repeated.  
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reliability   the consistency of the results when similar studies are performed  
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validity   the degree to which a research experiment captures what it claims to study  
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deception   to actively provide false info to participant  
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debriefing   the process by which any deception used by researchers is fully disclosed to participants at the end of a study  
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Semantic memory   memory for the meaning of material  
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concept   a building block or basic unit of knowledge  
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category   a cluster of similar concepts  
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conceptual hierarchy   organization of related concepts into levels of categories  
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semantic network model   organization of information that captures meaningful relationships between concepts  
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spreading activation   the links between concepts in memory help to access one given another  
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connectionist models   memory theories that capture the distributed interconnections between concepts  
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schema   organizer for information about events, people, and groups.  
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episodic memory   recall of your own personal experiences  
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flashbulb memory   an emotional or vivid event that appears to be well remembered  
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