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| a field of psychology that concentrates on observable, measurable behaviros and not on mental processes |
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| behavioral neuroscientist, a specialist who tries to explain behavior in terms of bioological factors, such as electrical and chemical activities in the nervous system |
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| someone with an advanced degree in psychology with a speciality in helping people with issues |
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| a sperson with a degree in social work instead of psycholology who helps wpeeps with psychological problems in hways similar to clinical psych |
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| thinking acuquiring knowledge |
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| comparitive psychoologist |
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| a specialist who compares different animal species |
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| someone trained to help people with educational vocational marriage health related and other decisions |
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| the assumption that all behavior has a cause or determinant in the observable world |
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| developmental psychologist |
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| a specialist who studies teh behavioral capacities of different ages and how behavior changes with age |
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| the view that the mind is seperate from the brain |
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| works with engineering to make machinery work bettery |
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| evolutionary psychologist |
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| on ewho tries to explain behaviro in terms of the eveolutionary history of the speciest in cluding reasons evolution may have favored a tendency |
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| one who provides advice and cosultation to police laywers courtss and other psrts of the criminal justice system |
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| an attempt to understand whow mental prcoesses produce useful behaviors |
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| functionalism, interested in how people produce useful behaviors, kinda cognitive |
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| industrial organixational I/O psych |
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| the psychological study of people at work |
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| the study of how behavior depends on the outcomes of past behaviors and on the current motivations |
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| the philosophical question of how the concious moind is related to the phsycial nervous system including the brain |
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| the view that conciousness is inseperable from the physical brain |
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| t he question of the relative roles played by heredity nature and enviornment nurture in determining differences in behavior |
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| a branch of medicine that deals with emotional disturbances |
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| a psychchothereapist who relies heavily on the theories of sigmund freud |
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| a systematic study of behavior and experience |
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| the mathmatical description of the relationship between the phsycial properties of a stimulus and its percieved properties |
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| a stpecialist who studies how an individual influences others and is influenced by other people |
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| an attept to describe the sturctures that compose the mind |
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| established the first laboratory devoted to psychological research |
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| functionalist, paved the ways for behaviorism |
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