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Nature/Nurture
Perspectives
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Careers
100
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
100
The possibility that you will inherit a certain trait.
What is predisposition?
100
These attempt to explain our behavior and mental processes.
What are perspectives?
100
What are the two types of twins?
What are fraternal and identical twins?
100
These people specialize in research and can be specialists in any psychology sub-fields.
What are academic psychologists?
200
Anything that we do that a psychologist can study, such as the way we walk or talk.
What is behavior?
200
Natures human clones.
What are identical twins?
200
A perspective that focuses on how people think.
What is cognitive perspective?
200
Being born with a trait does not mean you will keep it.
What is use it or lose it?
200
These psychologists specialize in studying growth and development.
What is a developmental psychologist?
300
The acronym used to classify a psychological disorder.
What is MUDA? (Maladaptive, Unjustifiable, Disturbing, Atypical).
300
Influence from the environment.
What is nurture?
300
A perspective that focuses on how our behavior comes from unconscious drives and conflicts.
What is psycho-dynamic perspective?
300
Random errors in gene replication that change a person's genetic code.
What are genetic mutations?
300
These people have studied psychology, but do not work as psychologists, rather they share the desire to improve the quality of life.
What are social workers?
400
Psychologists rely on scientific research methods to find their answers, they use mathematical formulas and collect data to analyze their results.
What is scientific?
400
The relative effects of genes and environment on our behavioral.
What is the nature nurture issue?
400
The six contemporary psychological perspectives.
What is psycho-dynamic, behaviorist, humanist, cognitive, biological and social-cultural?
400
These make up the chromosomes that are passed onto your parents the moment you are conceived.
What are genes?
400
These psychologists apply the law, and their background to legal issues.
What are forensic psychologists?
500
These are things that you cannot observe directly, like thoughts, feelings and dreams?
What is the mental process?
500
The color of yor eyes is an aspect of what?
What is this question is obvious?
500
What is the "birth year" of psychology?
When was 1879?
500
Behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, positive psychology are all examples of this.
What is Psychology in the 21st century? or What are the developing areas in psychology?
500
What is the name of the type of psychologist that studies how humans learn and strives to improve the ability to learn.
What are educational psychologists?