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| Psychology | The science of behavior and mental process |
| Nature-nurture Issue | The long-standing controversy over the relative contributions of genes and experience to the development of psychological traits and behaviors |
| Biological Perspective | How the body and brain create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences; Study the brain circuits that trigger the physical state of being |
| Behavioral Perspective | How we learn observable responses; Study the facial expressions and body gestures that accompany emotion |
| Cognitive Perspective | How we process, store, and retrieve information; Study how our interpretation of a situation affects emotions & how emotions effect our thinking and reasoning |
| Psychoanalytic Perspective | How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
| Social-cultural Perspective | How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures |
| Basic Research | Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
| Applied Research | Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems |
| Clinical Psychology | A branch of psychology involving the assessment and treatment of those who suffer psychological disorders |
| Psychiatry | A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians and sometimes involving medical (ie: drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy |
| Critical Thinking | Thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, doscerns, hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions |
| Hindsight Bias | The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have forseen it |
| Theory | An explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations |
| Hypothesis | A testable prediction, often implied by a theory |
| Replication | Repeating the essance of a research study, usually with different subjects in different situations, to see whether the basic finding eneralizes to other subjects and circumstances |
| Case Study | An observation technique in which one person or group is studied in depth in the hopes of revealing universal principles |
