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    1. Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. 2. The document defines key terms related to psychology including cognition, memory, psychological disorders, and fields of psychology such as clinical, developmental, and social psychology. 3. It also outlines aspects of the scientific method used in psychology including variables, hypotheses, experiments, and statistical concepts like means, standard deviations, and correlations.

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    1. Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. 2. The document defines key terms related to psychology including cognition, memory, psychological disorders, and fields of psychology such as clinical, developmental, and social psychology. 3. It also outlines aspects of the scientific method used in psychology including variables, hypotheses, experiments, and statistical concepts like means, standard deviations, and correlations.

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    Psychology

    Vocabulary:
    Basics
    1. Altruisml - the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
    2. Amygdala - an almond-shaped neural structure in the brain; intimately connected with the
    hypothalamus and the hippocampus; involved in motivation and emotions
    3. Catharsis - purging of emotional tensions, particularly pity and fear
    4. Cognition - the psychological result of perception and reasoning
    5. Collectivism - a theory that the people should own the means of production; the priority
    of the group over the individual
    6. Conflict - an open clash between two opposing groups
    7. Conformity - correspondence in form, type, or appearance; obeying the ideas of the group
    8. Credibility - the quality of being believable or trustworthy
    9. Hippocampus – a curved structure in the brain; involved in memory, learning, and
    emotions
    10. Individualism – theory prioritizing individual freedom and expression over the group
    11. Intellectual disability – characterized limitations in intellectual functioning (reasoning,
    learning, problem solving) and adaptive behaviour; can be identified with an IQ below 70
    12. Learning disability – characterized by difficulty learning due to genetic and
    neurobiological factors; not an intellectual disability; for example, dyslexia
    13. Memory - the cognitive faculty which stores and remembers past experience
    14. Psychological disorder – a disorder characterized by abnormal patterns of thought,
    emotion and behaviour; include anxiety, depressive, personality, psychotic, eating
    15. Psychology - the scientific study of mind and behaviour
    16. Phobia - an anxiety disorder characterized by irrational fear
    Fields of Psychology
    17. Biological psychology – the branch of psychology that focuses on the biological basis of
    cognition and behavior
    18. Clinical psychology - the branch of psychology concerned with the treatment of abnormal
    mentation and behavior
    19. Cognitive psychology - an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental
    processes
    20. Developmental psychology - the branch of psychology that studies the social and mental
    development of children
    21. Experimental psychology - the branch of psychology that uses experimental methods to
    study psychological issues
    22. Industrial and Organizational psychology - any of several branches of psychology that
    seek to apply psychological principles to practical problems of education or industry or
    marketing etc.
    23. Social psychology - the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships
    with others and with groups and with society as a whole
    Scientific Method
    24. Theory - a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the world
    25. Hypothesis - a tentative explanation that will be tested; can be falsified
    26. Informed consent - consent by a patient to undergo a medical or surgical treatment or to
    participate in an experiment after the patient understands the risks involved
    27. Debrief - a meeting between the researcher and participant after a study to explain the
    purposes of the study and reveal deception if taken place
    28. Deception - a misleading falsehood; in a study, not revealing information to the
    participant beforehand that would compromise the goals of the study
    29. Double-blind study- an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the
    experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the
    experiment
    30. Placebo - an innocuous or inert medication usually used for the control sample of a study
    31. Variable - something that is measured or manipulated in a psychological study
    32. Mean - an average computed by dividing the total by the number of values
    33. Standard deviation - the square root of the variance; a measure of uncertainty and
    distribution
    34. Correlation coefficient - a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary.

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