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- 2. Psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods, cognitive development, and aptitude assessment
- 5. A field of study within psychology concerned with the theory and technique of measurement
- 8. Psychology that is concerned with the community as the unit of study
- 9. Learning only from experience and observations
- 11. Psychology focused on facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan
- 13. Approach to psychology that emphasizes systematic study of the psychological forces underlying human behavior, feelings, and emotions and how they might relate to early experience.
- 14. A debate over whether genetics play a larger role in determining a person’s characteristics than lived experiences and environmental factors
- 15. A reading comprehension method named for its five steps: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review.
- 17. Concerned with understanding the neuroscientific bases of cognition
- 19. The scientific study of the mind and behavior
- 21. The branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders
- 22. A process used to point to the location size, or scale of a research project
- 25. A scientific study within the field of Psychology that focuses on solving problems, curing illnesses, and innovating new technologies
- 26. A set of fields that bring together psychology and social sciences such as sociology, anthropology, economics and political science
- 28. Psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals
- 29. Theory that suggests all behaviors are acquired through the conditioning process
- 30. The process by which organisms best adapted to their environment survive and reproduce to pass on favorable traits to their offspring.
- 31. Psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective
- 32. Psychology that studies the conditions that contribute to the optimal functioning of people, groups, and institutions
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- 1. A subject that focuses on the psychological aspects of human functioning in varying socioeconomic, clinical, and cultural groups as well as in different age groups
- 3. The finding that long-term memory is often increased when some of the learning period is devoted to retrieving the to-be-remembered information.
- 4. Theory seeking to analyze elements of mental processes
- 6. Psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual.
- 7. An interdisciplinary area of psychology that focuses on a range of different topics, including ergonomics, workplace safety, human error, product design, human capability, and human-computer interaction
- 10. Psychology that focuses on scientifically-based solutions to human problems in work and other organizational settings
- 12. Psychology concerned with the scientific investigation of basic psychological processes such as learning, memory, and cognition
- 16. A systematic approach to understanding the behavior of humans and other animals
- 18. Psychology that emphasizes looking at the whole individual and stresses concepts such as free will, self-efficacy, and self-actualization
- 20. The scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives
- 23. Psychology primarily concerned with the relationship between psychological processes and the underlying physiological
- 24. Theory seeking to analyze mental states is relation to external behaviors
- 27. Study and research meant to increase our scientific knowledge base