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Unit 1 - Module 2: Today's Psychology and Its Approaches
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- 1Unit One - Module 2 Today's Psychology and Its ApproachesToday's Psychology and Its Approaches
- 2cognitive psychologyThe study of mental processes, such as occur when we perceive, learn, remember, think, communicate, and solve problems
- 3cognitive neuroscienceThe interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition - including perception, thinking, memory, and language
- 4psychologyThe science of behaviour and mental processes
- 5behaviourBEHAVIOUR is anything an organism does - any action we can observe and record.
- 6mental processesMENTAL PROCESSES are the internal, subjective experiences we infer from behaviour - sensations, perceptions, dreams, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings.
- 7nature-nurture issueThe longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviours. Today's science sees traits and behaviours arising from the interaction of nature and nurture
- 8natural selectionThe principle that inherited traits that better enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment will (in competition with other trait variations) most likely be passed on to succeeding generations
- 9evolutionary psychologyThe. study of the evolution of behaviour and the mind, using principles of natural selection
- 10behaviour geneticsThe study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behaviour
- 11cultureThe enduring behaviours, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmited from one generation to the next
- 12positive psychologyThe scientific study of human flourishing, with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive
- 13biopsychosocial approachAn integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural viewpoints
- 14behavioural psychologyThe scientific study of observable behaviour, and its explanation by principles of learning
- 15biological psychologyThe scientific study of the links between biological (genetic, neural, hormonal) and psychological processes
(Some biological psychologists call themselves behavioural neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, behaviour geneticists, physiological psychologists, or biopsychologists) - 16psychodynamic psychologyA branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behaviour and uses that information to treeat people with psychological disorders
- 17social-cultural psychologyThe study of how situations and cultures affect our behaviour and thinking
- 18Charles DarwinDarwin is famous for his scientific theory of evolution by natural selection.
He argued that species evolve through adaptation which helps them to survive and reproduce. - 19Martin SeligmanAn American psychologist who is a strong proponent of the positive psychology approach.
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