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An assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through scientific research.
What is a hypothesis?
100
A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment
What is a behaviorist?
100
A branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
What is psychiatry?
100
A psychologist who uses psychological concepts to make the workplace a more satisfying environment for employees and managers
What is an industrial/organizational psychologist?
100
the scientific study of behavior that is tested through research
What is psychology?
200
A set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific study
What is a theory?
200
A psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth
What is a humanist?
200
A psychologist who diagnoses and treats people with emotional disturbances
What is a clinical psychologist?
200
A psychologist who usually helps people deal with problems of everyday life.
What is a counseling psychologist?
200
Having to do with an organism's physical processes
What is physiological?
300
having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding
What is cognitive?
300
A psychologist who studies the function (rather than the structure) of consciousness
What is a functionalist?
300
A psychologist who is concerned with helping students learn
What is an educational psychologist?
300
A psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior, feelings, and thoughts
What is a psychoanalyst?
300
A general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized
What is the scientific method?
400
The pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake
What is basic science?
400
A method of self observation in which the participants report their thoughts and feelings
What is introspection?
400
A psychologist who may work in a mental health or social welfare agency.
What is a community psychologist?
400
A psychologist who studies the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences
What is a structuralist?
400
A scientist who studies the mind and behavior of humans and animals.
What is a psychologist?
500
Discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical goals
What is applied science?
500
A psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how thought processes influence our behavior
What is a cognitivist?
500
A psychologist who studies sensation, perception, learning, motivation, and/or emotion in carefully controlled laboratory conditions
What is an experimental psychologist?
500
A psychologist who studies how chemical and physical changes in our bodies influence our behavior
What is a psychobiologist?
500
A psychologist who studies the emotional, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that occur as an individual matures
What is a developmental psychologist?