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Terms from unit on sensation and perception in ap psychology. Chapter 3 lesson 20 transcript additional activities. According to this principle, we tend to segment our visual world into figure and ground. Psychology is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the singlesemester introduction to psychology course. Before psychology became a recognized academic discipline, matters of the mind were. Neuropsychology, nature and nurture, methods, development, sensation and perception, emotion and motivation, personality, learning and memory, psychological disorders, language and therapy.
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