Titlebook: Introduction to Scientific Psychology; Henry D. Schlinger,Alan Poling Book 1998 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998 adopted-texb

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Troublesome Behaviorf responding that constitute a problem for the person who emits them, or for other people. When used in this sense, . can also be called .. The present chapter considers the diagnosis, etiology (i.e., causes), and treatment of troublesome behaviors associated with mental illness, drug abuse, and mental retardation.

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Individual Differences: Intelligence, Personality, and Social BehaviorThe topics of intelligence, personality, and social behavior have long interested psychologists, and we consider them in this chapter, including how scientific psychology would approach the same topics.

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Science and Psychology understand the natural world systematically by observing it and using the experimental method. Like philosophy, then, . is also a human activity, but one that is characterized by the search for regularities in the natural world.

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Neurophysiology and Behavioroccurs in terms of general laws, such as the laws of classical and operant conditioning. Neurophysiologists, by contrast, attempt to explain . behavior occurs in terms of more elementary, physiological, processes (called reduction.) (Carlson, 1995).

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Book 1998e eve of a new millennium. the planet is beset by a host of problems that are. for the most part. caused by human behavior. Ironically. although it seems that the greatest impact of our behavior is on the planet and its other inhabitants. we may actually be threatening our own future the most. For e

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Phylogeny: Evolution and Behaviorut human behavior. Doing so was based on the assumption that species differed from one another only by degrees, and not in fundamental ways. As a result, scientific psychologists discovered that humans and nonhumans possesssed similar learning processes confirming the evolutionary relatedness of all species.

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Historical Originsde (a) the philosophy of Descartes; (b) the evolution of the scientific method by such notable scientists as Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Darwin; and (c) the beginnings of modern scientific psychology with contributions by Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, and Skinner.