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The idea that knowledge comes through experience through senses & science based on observation and experimentation
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Empiricism
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The practice of using introspection (looking inward) to explore the elemental structure of the human mind
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Structuralism
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Mental and behavioral processes funtion; enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish
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Functionalism
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The science of behavior and mental processes
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Psychology
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The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors
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Nature-nurture issue
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Nature selects those organisms best able to survive and reproduce in an enviroment
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Natural selection
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Pure science aimed to increase knowledge base
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Basic research
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Scientific study aimed to solve practical problems
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Applied research
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A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders
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Clinical psychology
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A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical treatments as well as psychological therapy
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Psychiatry
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