[PSY 206] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (147 pages long!)
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1. 1 de ning psychology: the scienti c study of behavior and mental processes, the scienti c study of human and animal behaviors. 1. 2 de ning psychiatry: a branch of medicine specializing in mental illnesses that can be used as prescribed medicine. 1. 3 de ning psychotherapy: a treatment of mental illness using communication instead of medicine. 1. 4 de ning biological perspective: human behavior that can be explained on a physical that can run in the family. Human behavior that can be explained through mental processed: the way we can behave is determined by the things we have learned, the way we think about the world and others. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes on mind: -williams james [1842 - 1910] 1: school psychology [similar to educational psychology, social psychology, sport psychology.
