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6. Research/ Research conducted without concern for immediate applications.
7. Mental activity involved in understanding; processing and communicating information; the use of mental processes to perceive and mentally represent the world; think; and engage in problem solving and decision making.
8. Deliberate looking into one's own cognitive processes to examine one's thoughts and feelings and to gain self knowledge.
11. The view that people are completely free and responsible for their own behavior.
13. Perspective/ The view that our behavior and mental processes have been shaped, at least in part, by natural selection as our ancestors strived to meet our prehistoric and historic challenges.
15. perspective/ The approach to psychology that seeks to understand the nature of the links between biological processes and structures such as the functioning of the brain; endocrine system; and heredity; on the one hand; and behavior and mental processes; on the other.
16. Group/ A group characterized by common features such as cultural heritage, history, race and language.
18. A college or university course, typically in a specialized field of study, that provides students with supervised practical application of previously studied theory.
20. Sudden reorganization of perceptions, allowing the sudden solution of a problem.

1. Freud's method of exploring human personality; the school of psychology that asserts that much of our behavior and mental processes are governed by unconscious ideas and impulses that have their origins in childhood conflicts.
2. The study of observable behavior and studies relationships between stimuli and responses.
3. An inborn pattern of behavior that is triggered by particular stimulus.
4. The school of psychology that emphasizes the uses or functions of the mind and behavior rather than just the elements of experience.
5. A stimulus that follows a response and increase the frequency of the response.
9. Psychology/ Emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into wholes and to integrate separate stimuli into meaningful patterns.
10. The psychological state of being male or female
12. The science that studies behavior and mental processes.
14. Perspective/ The approach to psychology that focuses on the nature of consciousness and on mental processes such as sensation and perception; memory; problem solving; decision making, judgment; language and intelligence.
17. Asserts that people are conscious, self aware, and capable of free choice, self-fulfilment, and ethical behavior.
19. Research/ Research conducted in an effort to find solutions to particular problems.