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attempts to explain psychological
traits—such
as memory,
perception,
or language—as
adaptations,
that is, as the functional products of natural selection or sexual
selection.
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Evolutionary Psychology
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the scientific study of behavior and mental
processes.
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Contemporary Psychology
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specialty that encompasses
research and applied work in several broad domains: counseling process and
outcome; supervision and training; career development and counseling; and prevention
and health
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Counseling Psychology
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the outdated study of how bumps or shape of
one’s head affects the brain and thinking
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Phrenology
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a measure of the extent to which two factors
vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other
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Correlation
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the arithmetic
average in a distribution
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Mean-
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the middle score in a distribution
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Median-
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-the most frequently occurring score in a
distribution
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Mode
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the tendency to believe, after learning
an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
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Hindsight Bias-
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a sample that fairly represents a
population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.
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Random Sample-
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when both the research participants and the
researchers are blind to which participants have the placebo
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Double-Blind-
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a neurotransmitter’s reabsorption by
the sending neuron
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Reuptake-
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chemical messengers that cross the
synaptic gaps between neurons
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Neurotransmitter-
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the biologically an socially influenced
characteristics by which people associate as being male or female
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Gender Schema-
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set of expected behaviors for males and
females
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Gender Role-
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