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Psychology
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The scientific study of behavior and mental process
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Any action that people can observe or measure
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Behavior
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Private mental processes, such as thoughts and memories
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Cognitive activities
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A research method in which psychologists collect data by asking questions of people in a particular group
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Survey
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A statement that attempts to explain why things are the way they are and happen the way they do
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Theory
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Type of psychologists who focus on helping people with psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression. where are they found?
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Clinical psychologist; hospitals/prisons/school clinics/private practices
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Type of psychologists who deal with people who have adjustment problems. where are they found?
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Counseling psychologist; businesses/college/university/testing centers
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Type of psychologists who are involved in preparing standardized tests
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Educational pyschologist
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Type of psychologists who conduct research into basic processes, such as the fuctions of the nervous system or sensation and perception
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Experimental psychologist
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Type of psychologists who study the psychological effects of the environment on people's behavior (examples?)
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Environmental psychologists
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Psychologists who work within the criminal justice system. What do they do?
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Forensic psychologist; testify psychological competency of defendants, help in police departments
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Who believed that people can learn much about themselves through introspection?
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Socrates
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Individual who established first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany
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Wilhem Wundt
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School of psychology that is concerned with discovering basic elements of conscious experience
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Structualism
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School of psychology that focuses on how mental processes help organisms adapt to their environment
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Functionalism
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