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the study of the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principles of natural selection
a) Evolutionary Psychology
b) Biological Psychology
c) Psychodynamic Psychology
d) Behavioral Psychology

the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
a) Nature v Nurture
b) Humanistic Psychology
c) Cognitive Neuroscience
d) Experimental Psychology

a branch of psychology that studies the links between biological (including neuroscience and behavior genetics) and psychological processes.
a) Biological Psychology
b) Evolutionary Psychology
c) Psychodynamic Psychology
d) Behavioral Psychology

the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language).
a) Cognitive neuroscience
b) Experimental Psychology
c) Humanistic Psychology
d) Nature v Nurture

the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method.
a) Experimental Psychology
b) Cognitive Neuroscience
c) Humanistic Psychology
d) Nature v Nurture

historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual’s potential for personal growth. Maslow/Harlow
a) Humanistic Psychology
b) Experimental Psychology
c) Cognitive neuroscience
d) Nature v Nurture

a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function – how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish.
a) functionalism
b) empiricism
c) behaviorism
d) structuralism

the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
a) behaviorism
b) empiricism
c) structuralism
d) functionalism

an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind.
a) structuralism
b) empiricism
c) behaviorism
d) functionalism

the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
a) empiricism
b) behaviorism
c) structuralism
d) functionalism

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