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Demonstrates a cause-and-effect relationship between one variable and another.
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Principles of evolution, including natural selection, to explain psychological processes and phenomena.
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Studies how behavior is acquired or modified by environmental consequences.
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Focuses on the relationship between behavior and the body's physical systems.
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A research strategy that allows the precise calculation of how strongly related two factors are to one another.
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Scientific procedures that involve systematically observing behavior in order to describe the relationship among behaviors and events.
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Alleged abilities or events that fall outside the range of normal experiences and established scientific explanations.
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Research study in which neither the participant nor the researcher interacting with the participant is aware of the experimental group to which the participant belongs.
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Emphasizes each person's unique potential for psychological growth and self-direction.
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18
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Studies the causes, treatment, and prevention of different types of psychological disorders.
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20
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Personality theory and form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the role of unconscious factors in personality and behavior.
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The evolutionary perspective has grown out of a renewed interest from this naturalists work.
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The founder of psychology.
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Founded and promoted psychology in the United States
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A highly detailed description of a single individual or event.
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5
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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
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7
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Studies the physical, social, and psychological changes that occur at different ages and stages over the lifespan.
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A tentative explanation that tries to integrate and account for the relationship of various findings and observations.
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Austrian physician and founder of psychoanalysis.
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The method in which the four goals of psychology are to describe, explain, predict, and influence human behavior and mental processes.
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