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Any theory of behavior that
emphasizes internal conflicts,
motives, and unconscious forces.

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Psychodynamic theory

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Seeking knowledge for their own sake

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Basic Research

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A behaviorist approach that rejects both introspection and any study of mental events, such as thinking, as inappropriate topics for scientific psychology.

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Radical Behaviorism

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In Freudian theory, the parts of the mind that are beyond awareness, especially conflicts, impulses, and desires not directly known to a person.

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Dynamic unconscious

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The idea that all behavior has prior causes that would completely explain one’s choices and actions if all such causes were known

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Determinism

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A medical doctor with additional training in the diagnosis
and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.

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Psychiatrist

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A psychologist who specializes in the treatment of
psychological and behavioral disturbances or who does research on such disturbances.

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Counseling Psychologist

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Information
gained from direct observation.

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Empirical evidence

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Freudian approach to psychotherapy emphasizing the exploration of the unconscious using free association, dream, interpretation, resistances, and transference to uncover unconscious conflicts.

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Psychoanalysis

Question 11

Any muscular action,
glandular activity, or other identifiable
aspect of behavior.

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Response

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Psychologists who accept the broad features of Freud’s theory but have revised the theory to include the role of
cultural and social factors while still accepting some of its basic concepts.

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Neo-Freudians

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The process of fully developing personal potential

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Self-actualization

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Any physical energy
that an organism senses.

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Stimulus

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Personal
observation of your own thoughts,
feelings, and behavior.

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Introspection

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A mental health professional (Usually a medical
doctor) trained to practice psychoanalysis.

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Psychoanalyst

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An old term describing the inability of introspectionists to become subjectively aware of some mental processes; an early term describing the cognitive unconscious.

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Imageless thought

Question 21

An unfounded belief held without objective evidence or
in the face of falsifying evidence

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Superstition

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In research, an animal whose behavior is studied to derive principles that may apply to human behavior.

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Animal model

Question 23

The tendency to remember or notice things that
confirm our expectations and ignore the rest.

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Confirmation bias

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Study of people as inherently good and motivated to learn and improve Humanists are interested in psychological needs for love, self- esteem, belonging, self-expression, creativity, and spirituality

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Humanistic psychology

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An objective approach to answering question that relies on careful observations and experiments

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Science

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Study of thinking, learning, and perception in whole units, not by analysis into parts.

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Gestalt Psychology

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To solve immediate practical problems.

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Applied Research

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Many observers can confirm what’s been.

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Intersubjective

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Carefully planned

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Systematic

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

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Psychology

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A school of psychology that considers behaviors in terms of active adaptations.

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Functionalism

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A psychologist who specializes in the treatment of milder emotional and behavior disturbances.

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Clinical Psychologist

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An approach acknowledging that biological, psychological, and social factors interact to influence human behavior and mental processes.

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Biopsychosocial model

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An empirical investigation structured to answer questions about the world in a systematic and intersubjective fashion.

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Scientific observation

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The part of the mind of which we are subjectively unaware and that is not open to introspection.

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Cognitive Unconscious

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Unfounded belief system that seems to be based on science.

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Pseudoscience or “False Science.”

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Defining a scientific concept by stating the specific actions or procedures used to measure it.

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Operational definition

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The ability to freely make choices that are not controlled by genetics, learning, or unconscious forces; the idea that human beings are capable of making choices or decisions themselves.

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Free will

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The study of information processing, thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving.

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Cognitive Psychology

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A mental health professional who specializes in helping people with problems that do not involve serious mental disorders.

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Counselor

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School of thought in psychology that emphasizes the study of observable actions over the study of the mind.

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Behaviorism

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A person highly trained in the methods, factual knowledge, and theories of psychology.

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Psychologist

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Study of sensations and personal experiences analyzed as basic elements.

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Structuralism