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| pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
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| scientific study that aims to solve practical problems |
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| assists pople w/ problems in living and in achieving greater well-being |
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| studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
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| using intropsection to search for the mind's structural elements. proposed by titchener |
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| focused on how mental and behavioral processes function--how they enable the organism to flourish, adapt, and survive. proposed by James |
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| historically significant perspective that emphaisized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth |
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| the scientific study of behavior and mental processes |
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| the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should rely on observation and experimentation |
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| 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 |
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| deals w/ psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy |
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| the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon |
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| an integrated perspective that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis |
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