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2. Basic science (psychology) - Wikipedia

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   Biological psychology or behavioral neuroscience is the scientific study of the biological bases of behavior and mental processes. Biological psychologists view all behavior as dependent on the nervous system, and study the neural basis for behavior. This is the approach taken in behavioral neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and neuropsychology.

3. Cognitive psychology - Wikipedia

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   Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. [1] Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical ...

4. Environmental psychology - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Environmental psychology is a branch of psychology that explores the relationship between humans and the external world. [ 1] It examines the way in which the natural environment and our built environments shape us as individuals. Environmental psychology emphasizes how humans change the environment and how the environment influences ...

5. Educational psychology - Wikipedia

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   Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning. The study of learning processes, from both cognitive and behavioral perspectives, allows researchers to understand individual differences in intelligence, cognitive development, affect, motivation, self-regulation, and self-concept, as well ...

6. Learning theory (education) - Wikipedia

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   Learning theory describes how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a worldview, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained. [ 1][ 2] Behaviorists look at learning as an aspect of ...

7. Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia

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   Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in psychology that examines cognition and behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. [ 1][ 2] It seeks to identify human psychological adaptations with regards to the ancestral problems they evolved to solve.

8. Nature (essay) - Wikipedia

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   Nature. (essay) Nature is a book-length essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. [ 1] In the essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. [ 2] Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature ...

9. Behavioral neuroscience - Wikipedia

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   Behavioral neuroscience, also known as biological psychology, [1] biopsychology, or psychobiology, [2] is the application of the principles of biology to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in humans and other animals.