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The argu-ment presented is that psychology has traditionally spanned two separate but intimately related problems: (a) the problem of animal behavior and (b) the problem of human behavior....
There are three concepts important to the definition of psychology: science, behavior, and mental processes. Psychologists use scientific methods to observe, describe, predict, and explain behaviors and mental processes.
Finding Meaning in Psychology A Lay Theories Approach to Self-Regulation, Social Perception, and Social Development Daniel C. Molden Northwestern University Carol S. Dweck Stanford University Much of psychology focuses on universal principles of thought and action. Although an extremely productive pur-
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Jun 20, 2011 · PDF | We are now in a position to address one of the key issues in this book and offer up a solution to the problem of psychology. Recall that my... | Find, read and cite all the research you...
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Cognitive reappraisal is a strategy for everyday living in which a person deliberately aims to modify their emotional response to experience by changing their thoughts. It involves evaluating...
Psychology is best defined as the "scientific study of behavior in humans and animals." Behavior is what people and animals do: e.g., what a person says about last night's dream, and how long it takes a rat to run a maze.
First, psychology is broad. Its contents range from the microlevel neural processes that form the building blocks of thought, feeling, and action to the macrolevel social and cultural processes that bind us with our primate rela-tives in our evolutionary history and defi ne our collectives.
