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Psychological Science

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The study, through research, of the mind, the body, and behavior.

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The Mind

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1) Mental Activity
2) Perceptual Experiences
3) Memories, Thoughts, Feelings
4) Results from biological processes in the brain

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The Brain

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1) the biological organ

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Behavior

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1) the totality of observable human actions.

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Critical Thinking

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1) Systematically questioning and evaluating information using well-supported evidence.

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Ignoring Evidence (Confirmation Bias)

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1) Ignoring evidence that does not support your theory by focusing on the evidence that does.

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Gut bias

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1) ignoring statistics

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Hindsight Bias

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1) Explaining why an event happened after it did. Predicting something that already happened.

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Self-serving bias

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1) seeing your self in a favorable bias

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The Nature vs Nurture Debate

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1) Nature: psychological characteristics through Biological make-up, genetics
2) Nurture: psychological characteristics through Culture, education, experience
3) Both Nature and Nurture extensively studied for their impact on psychological behavior

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Adaptive Problem Solving

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Using evolutionary theory and natural selection to solve various psychological problems.

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Introspection

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1) examination of relative mental experiences that requires individuals to self-report.
2) Wilhelm Wundt L 19th founder of modern psych

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Structuralism

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1) Titchner

2) Conscious experience can be broken down into its underlying components.

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Functionalism

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1) James, L 19th
2) concerned with the adaptive purpose, or function, of mind and behavior.
3) Stream of consciousness–each persons never ending ever-changing thoughts
4) opposition to Structuralism

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Gestalt Theory

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1) Wertheimer E 20th
2) the whole of personal experience is different from its parts
3) opposition to structuralism
4) perception of objects is subjective and dependent on context

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psychoanalysis

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1) Freud E. 20th
2) Studying the parts of the unconscious an their affect on the conscious to reveal conflict.
3) free Association–patients talk about whatever they wantfor as long as they want.

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Behaviorism

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1) Watson E 20th
2) study of environmental affects on mental behavior
3) nurture psychology

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Cognitive Psychology

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1) Miller M 20th

2) concerned with mental functions like intelligence, thinking, language, and decision making

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Cognitive Neuroscience

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1) study of neural mechanisms underlying thought, learning, perception, language, memory

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Social Psychology

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1) Lewin M. 20th
2) how people influence the actions, thoughts, and feelings of others
3) personality psychology–personality in social situations
4) rejected Freud

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Levels of Analysis Psychological Science

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1) Biological (brain systems, neurochemistry, genetics)
2) individual (individual differences, perception, cognition, behavior)
3) social (interpersonal behavior, social cognition)
4) cultural (Thougths, actions, behaviors–in different societies and cultural groups)