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what is empiricism
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the view that knowledge comes from experience via the senses, and science floursihes through observation and experiment
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structuralism
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an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore and elemental structure of the human mind
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functionalism
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a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral process function-how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and floursih
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psychology
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the science of behavior and mental process
science that seeks to answer all sorts of questions about us: how we think,feel, act |
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nature-nurture issue
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the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to development of psychological traits and behaviors
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natural selection
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the principal that among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival most likely be passed on to succeeding generations
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