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Psych 101 Vanderbilt
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09/20/2005

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behaviorism
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a field of psychology that concentrates on observable, measurable behaviros and not on mental processes
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biopsychologist
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behavioral neuroscientist, a specialist who tries to explain behavior in terms of bioological factors, such as electrical and chemical activities in the nervous system
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clinical psyhologist
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someone with an advanced degree in psychology with a speciality in helping people with issues
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clinical social worker
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a sperson with a degree in social work instead of psycholology who helps wpeeps with psychological problems in hways similar to clinical psych
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cognition
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thinking acuquiring knowledge
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comparitive psychoologist
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a specialist who compares different animal species
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counseling psychologist
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someone trained to help people with educational vocational marriage health related and other decisions
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determinism
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the assumption that all behavior has a cause or determinant in the observable world
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developmental psychologist
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a specialist who studies teh behavioral capacities of different ages and how behavior changes with age
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dualism
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the view that the mind is seperate from the brain
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ergonnomist
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works with engineering to make machinery work bettery
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human factor specialist
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same as ergonomist
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evolutionary psychologist
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on ewho tries to explain behaviro in terms of the eveolutionary history of the speciest in cluding reasons evolution may have favored a tendency
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forensic psychologist
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one who provides advice and cosultation to police laywers courtss and other psrts of the criminal justice system
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functionalism
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an attempt to understand whow mental prcoesses produce useful behaviors
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william james
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functionalism, interested in how people produce useful behaviors, kinda cognitive
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industrial organixational I/O psych
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the psychological study of people at work
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introspection
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looking within ones self
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learning and motivation
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the study of how behavior depends on the outcomes of past behaviors and on the current motivations
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mind-brian problem
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the philosophical question of how the concious moind is related to the phsycial nervous system including the brain
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monism
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the view that conciousness is inseperable from the physical brain
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nature nurture issue
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t he question of the relative roles played by heredity nature and enviornment nurture in determining differences in behavior
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psychiatry
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a branch of medicine that deals with emotional disturbances
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pssychoanalyst
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a psychchothereapist who relies heavily on the theories of sigmund freud
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psychology
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a systematic study of behavior and experience
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psychophysical function
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the mathmatical description of the relationship between the phsycial properties of a stimulus and its percieved properties
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school psychoologist
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duh
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social psychologist
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a stpecialist who studies how an individual influences others and is influenced by other people
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structuralism a
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an attept to describe the sturctures that compose the mind
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Wilhelm Wundt
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established the first laboratory devoted to psychological research
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Edward Titchhener
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introspection dude
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William James
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functionalist, paved the ways for behaviorism
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clark hull
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