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show scientific study of thought and behavior  
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show the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak and solve problems  
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show how thought and behavior change and remain stable across the life span  
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Biological psychology   show
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Behavioral neuroscience   show
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Personality psychology   show
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Social psychology   show
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show diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders and promotion of psychological health  
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show diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional and behavioral disorder and promotion of psychological health  
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show role psychological factors play in regard to health and illness  
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show study of how students learn, the effectiveness of particular teaching techniques, social psychology of schools and the psychology of teaching  
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show practice by counselors in school setting  
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show application of psychological concepts and questions to work setting  
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Sport psychology   show
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show blend of psychology, law and criminal justice  
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Shamans   show
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show drilling a small hole in a persons skull, usually less than an inch in diameter  
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Asylums   show
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show 19th cent approach to treat the mentally ill with dignity in a caring environment  
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show clinically based approach to understanding and treating psychological disorder, assumes that the unconscious mind is the most powerful force behind though and behavior  
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Empiricism   show
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show the study of how people psychologically perceive physical stimuli  
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Structuralism   show
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show looking into the mind for information about nature of conscious experience  
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show Study of psychology that argued it was better to look at why the mind works they way it does tan to describe it's parts  
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show psychology can be a true science only if it examines observable behavior, not idea, thoughts and feelings  
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show personal growth and meaning as a way of reaching ones highest potential  
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Positive psychology   show
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Gestalt psychology   show
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Evolution   show
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Natural selection   show
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show inherited solution to ancestral problems that have been selected for because the contribute in some way to reproductive success  
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show branch of psychology that studies human behavior by asking what adaptive problems it may have solved for our early ancestors  
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show the positive that the environment constantly interacts with biology to shape who we are and what we do.  
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Soft wiring   show
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show using cognitive skills required to generate, tests, revise theories  
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*Theory   show
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Hypothesis   show
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Replications   show
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Pseudoscience   show
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Research designs   show
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Variable   show
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show a group a researcher is interested in  
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Sample   show
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Descriptive designs   show
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show a therapist observes 1 person over a long period of time  
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Naturalistic observation   show
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Representative sample   show
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Meta analysis   show
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show measure of strength of the relationship between 2 variables of the extent of experimental effect  
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Correlational designs   show
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Correlation coefficients   show
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Experiment   show
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IV   show
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DV   show
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show method to assign participants to different research conditions to get a different groups of people to represent the population  
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show participants who are treats as same as experimental but do not receive IV  
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Experimental group   show
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Placebo   show
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Confounding variable   show
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Single blind studies   show
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show participants and researchers do not know what they have been assigned too  
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Experimenter expectancy effect   show
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show a statement that affects events to cause the prediction to become true  
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Measures   show
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show written or oral accounts of a person’s thoughts, feeling or actions  
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Social desirability bias   show
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Behavioral measures   show
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Physiological measures   show
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Statistic   show
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show  
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show measure used to describe and summarize research  
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Mean   show
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show middle score  
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show frequently occurring score  
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show statistical measure of how much scores in a sample vary around the mean  
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Frequency   show
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Normal distribution   show
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Inferential statistics   show
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t-test   show
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show rules governing the conduct of a person or group in general or in a specific situation-write or wrong  
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debriefing   show
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show evaluate proposals to make research involving humans do not cause undue harm or distress  
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show like an experimental design but use naturally occurring groups rather than randomly assigned ones  
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show procedures by which scientist conduct research consisting of the five basic processes of observation, prediction, testing, interpretation and communication  
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show matching employees to their jobs and uses psychological principles and methods to select employees and evaluate job performance  
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show make workers more productive/satisfied by how work enviorment, managment style influence motivation, satifactoty/ productivity  
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show who we are come from inborn tendencies and genetically based traits  
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show same as birth and we are product of our experience  
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show features that did not arise through natural selection ex. feathers for birds  
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