the term psychology is the scientific study of people‚ the mind‚ and behavior. It is both a thriving academic discipline and a vital professional practice. The word “ psychology” was derieved from the greek word “Psyche” which means breath‚ spirit‚ and soul‚ and the Greek word “ logia” which means the study of something. Clinical Psychology‚ Developmental Psychology‚ Foresic Psychology‚ Evolutionary Psychology‚ Health Psychology‚ and Neuropsychology are branches within the study of psychology that expalin
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Personality Paper Tabitha Martin PSY/211 April 25‚ 2013 Alicia M. Pearson Abstract The study of personality has a broad and varied history in psychology with an abundance of theoretical traditions. The major theories include dispositional trait perspective‚ psychodynamic‚ humanistic‚ biological‚ behaviorist‚ and social learning perspective. However‚ many researchers and psychologists do not explicitly identify themselves with a certain perspective and instead take an eclectic approach
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Vocabulary Psychology- the science of the mind or of mental states and processes Structuralism- a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals Gestalt Psychology- a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurationally properties Functionalism- a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process is useful to an organism in adapting to the environment Psychoanalytic perspective- is a body of ideas developed by Austrian physician
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Psychology Perspective Psychology as we all know is the scientific study of the behavior of humans and animals. There are various different approaches in contemporary psychology which aim at understanding human behavior. An approach is a perspective that involves certain assumptions about human behavior: the way they function‚ which aspects of them are worthy of study and what research methods are appropriate for undertaking this study. There may be several different theories within an approach‚
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What is Psychology? What exactly is psychology? Popular television programs‚ books‚ and films have contributed to a a number of misconceptions about this subject. The diverse careers paths of those holding psychology degrees also contribute to this confusion. Psychology is both an applied and academic field that studies the human mind and behavior. Research in psychology seeks to understand and explain how we think‚ act and feel. As most people already realize‚ a large part of psychology is devoted
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BODY LANGUAGE: EMBODIED PERCEPTION OF EMOTION Charlotte B.A. Sinke1‚2‚ Mariska E. Kret1 & Beatrice de Gelder1‚3*‚ 1 Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory‚ Tilburg University‚ Tilburg‚ the Netherlands 2 Department of Cognitive Neuroscience‚ Maastricht University‚ Maastricht‚ the Netherlands 3 Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging‚ Massachusetts General Hospital‚ Charlestown‚ Massachusetts * Corresponding author List of abbreviations AMG = amygdala; almond-shaped
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Military Psychology Military psychology is a broad market of psychology in which virtually any and all subfields of psychology where the lessons of personality‚ organizational and abnormal psychology among others are applied to the needs or desires of military planners and strategists. Reasons for their application may be immediate or sustained. The application of psychological research or theory to the military can be used to analyze either enemy or friendly forces‚ exemplified by perfecting an
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Molar pregnancy is an abnormal form of pregnancy in which a non-viable fertilized egg implants in the uterus and converts a normal pregnancy into an abnormal one (which will fail to come to term). A molar pregnancy is a gestational trophoblastic disease[1] that grows into a mass in the uterus that has swollen chorionic villi. These villi grow in clusters that resemble grapes.[2] A molar pregnancy can develop when an egg that is missing its nucleus is fertilized and that may or may not contain fetal
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254 International Journal of Management Vol. 28 No. 4 Part 2 Dec 2011 Effects of Current Nursing Management Styles on the Retention and Recruitment of Nurses: A Review of the Literature Misty Forest California State University‚ Fullerton Brian Kleiner California State University‚ Fullerton The current nursing management style that tends to be most favored in practice is a taskoriented transactional style‚ leaving little decision making autonomy on significant issues to the nurse being managed
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Lecture in General Psychology The Science of Psychology Psychology is derived from the Greek words psyche and logos‚ meaning soul and study. To the Greek‚ Psychology is simply a study of the soul. Psychology is defined as the scientific study of the behavior of living organisms‚ with special attention to human behavior. It is chiefly concerned with what makes people behave as they do. Psychologists are interested in topics such as learning‚ emotion‚ intelligence‚ heredity and environment
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