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psychology the science of behavior and mental processes nature-nurture issue the long-standing controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors Brainpower Read More Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:09 / 0:15 Full screen natural selection the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations neuroscience the perspective of psychological science that deals with how the body and brain create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences evolutionary the perspective of psychological science that deals with how nature selects traits that promote the perpetuation of one's genes behavior genetics the perspective of psychological science that deals with how much our genes, and our environment, influence our individual differences psychodynamic the perspective of psychological science that deals with how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts behavioral the perspective of psychological science that deals with how we learn observable responses cognitive the perspective of psychological science that deals with how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information social-cultural the perspective of psychological science that deals with how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures basic research pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base applied research scientific study that aims to solve practical problems clinical psychology a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders psychiatry a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders, practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy hindsight bias (I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon) the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it critical thinking thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions theory an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations hypothesis a testable prediction, often implied by a theory operational definition a statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables. For example, intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measu