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Psychology is a science dedicated to the study of behavior and mental processes. In this chapter you are introduced to the history of this science, a variety of contemporary perspectives in psychology, the positive psychology movement, and an overview of psychology-related careers. At the end of the chapter, the reader learns about the most
udies behavior through research. These students have learned that psychology is a science that investigates behaviors, me. tal processes, and their causes. That is what this book is about: how psychologists use the scientific method to observe and understan. behaviors and mental processes. The goal of this text is to give you a step-by-step ...
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The Science of Psychology: Tension and Conflict in a Dynamic Discipline . Unit 2. Understanding and Using Principles of Memory, Learning, and Thinking • Module 5 ...
1 The Science of Psychology 1 What Is Psychology? 3 The Breadth of Psychology 3 Enduring Issues 7 Psychology as Science 8 Critical Thinking: Thinking Like a Scientist 9 The Growth of Psychology as a Science 11 The “New Psychology”: A Science of the Mind 12 Redefining Psychology: The Study of Behavior 14 The Cognitive Revolution 15
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nt, and personal development. Clinical Psychology focuses on the intellectual, emotional, biological, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of human functioning across the life span, in varying cultures, an. at all socioeconomic levels. (APA, 2012a) The sheer breadth of this definition reflects the rich and varied growth t.
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psychology, clearly specified by the behaviorists, is the delineation of the general laws of animal behavior.The early optimism associated with the development of behavioral theory
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The search for specific genes that influence behavior. such as making decisions, decoding language, solving problems, etc. Earlier in this chapter, we discussed Wundt’s use of introspection to study mental events. Modern psychologists agree that, as a scientific technique, introspec-tion was a complete failure.
