Intro Psych

the science of behavior and mental processes

psychologists who analyze the biological facots influencing behavior and mental process

psychologists who seek to understand, describe, and explore how behavior and mental processes change over the course of a lifetime

psychologists who study the mental processes underlying judgment, decision making, problem solving, imagining, and other aspects of human thought or cognition

a filed in which psychs study human factors in the use of equiptment and help designers create better versions of that equipment

psychologists who study the characteristics that make individuals similar to, or different from, on another

Psychologists who seek to assess, understand, and change abnormal behavior

psychs who work to obtaion psychological services for people in need of help and to prevent psychological disorders by working for changes in social systems

psychologists who study the effects of behavior and mental processes on health and illness, and vice versa

psychs who study methods by which instructiors teach and students learn and who apply their results to improving such methods

psychologists who test IQ, diagnose students's acedemic problems, and set up programs to improve students' achievement

psychs who develop and use statistical tools to analyze research data

psychs who study how people influence one another's behavior and mental processes, indicidually and in groups

psychs who study ways to improve efficiency, productivity, and satisfaction among workers and the organization that emply them

psychs who explore the relationships between athletic performance and such psychological variables as motivation and emotion

psychs who assist in jury selection, evaluate defendants metal competence to stand trial, and deal with other issues involving psychology and the law

Psychs who study the effects of the physical enviromental on behavior and mental processes

to studyb conscious experience and its structure

to describe organization of mental processes: "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

to explain personality and behavior; to develop techniques for treating mental disorders

to study how the mind works in allowing an organism to adapt to the environment

to study only observable behavior and explain behavior via learning principles

an approach in which behavior and ehacior disorders are seen as the result of physical processes, especially those relating to the brain and to hormones and other chemicals

an approach to psychology that emphasizes the inherited, adaptive aspects of behacior and mental processes

a view developed by Freud that emphasizes the interplay of unconscious mental processes in determining human thought, feeling, and behavior

approach to psychology emphasizing that human behavior is determined mainly by what a person has learned, expecially from rewards and punishment

a way of looking at human behavior that emphasizes research on how the brain takes in information, creates perceptions, froms and retrieves memories, processes infromation, and generates integrated patterns of action

approach to psychology that views behavior as controlled by the decisions that people make about their lives based on their perceptions of th world

the accumulations of values, rules of behavior, forms of expression, religious belief, occumational choices, and the like for a group of people who share a common language and environment