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Unit 1 Exam Flashcards

1
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Pyschology

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The study of behavior and mental proccesses

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What was Socrates’ and Plato’s concept of the human mind?

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They believed the mind and body are seperate. The mind continues, even after the body dies

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Aristotle’s concept of human mind?

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Thought with reason and logic

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John Locke

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Believed everyone is born with a TABULA ROSA or clean slate

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Structuralism

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Examine your own cognitive processing

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Functionalism

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Observing conscious actions including emotions, memories, habits, power
Heavily influenced by Charles Darwin

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Behaviorism

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Believed science is from observation
Cant observe emotion but can learn by how someone behaves or reacts
Observable behavior turned psychology to scientific

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Gestalt

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German research that discover when people are given a cluster they organize them into groups

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Psychoanalytic/ pyschodynamic

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How unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior and use information to treat people with pyschological diseases

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Humanism

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Emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and individuals potential for acceptance beyond self fulfillment
Beyond reptillian (agression) brains
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Evolutionary

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How natural selection of traits promoting survival of certain genes

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Biological

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The link between biological and pyschological processes

How the body and brain work together

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Cognitive

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The study that links brain to mental activity

How we encode, process, store and retrieve information

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Nature vs nurture

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The controversy over the contributions of biology vs experience

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15
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Biological

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How the genes and environment influence individuals

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Counseling

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Help people cope with challenges and improve personal or social functioning

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Clinical

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Asses and treat mental,

Emotional, and behavior disorders

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Developmental

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Changing abilities from womb to tomb

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Educational

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Influences on teaching and learning

Not dealing with kidd

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Experimental

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The study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method

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Human factors

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Focus on the interaction of people, machines, and physical environment

22
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Industrial Organizational

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Use pyschology to help organizations and companies select and train employees boost morale and productivity, design products, and implement systems

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Personality

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Investigate persistent traits

Views into human resiliance

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Social

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Exploring how we view and affect one another

Economic statues?

25
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Mary Whilton Calkins

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1st women @ Harvard and president of American Pyschological Assosciation
Students dropped class bc she was a girl
26
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Charles Darwin

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Argued that natural selection (survival of the fittest) shapes behaviors as well as bodies

27
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Dorothea Dix

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Advocate for mental health hospitals

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Sigmund Freud

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developed the pyschoanalytic theory
Focused on subconscious mind (dreams)
W/ free association- talk therapy

29
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G. Stanley Hall

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1st puschologist to describe adolescence as tension between biological maturity and social dependance creates stress

30
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William James

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Considered the evolved functions of thoughts and feeling
Mary Calkins’ teacher

1st textbook

31
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Ivan Pavlov

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Pioneered the study of learning

Conditional training

32
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Jean Piaget

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Most influential observer of child

33
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Carl Rogers

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Revolutionized therapy
Furthered humanistic
Developed theory of unconditinal positive regars

34
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B.F. Skinner

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Redefined pyschology as “the scientific study of obervable behavior
Assoc w behavior

35
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Margaret Floy Washburn

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1st women to get a pyschology pHD

2nd female president APA

36
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John B Watson

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Rejected study of mental processes

37
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Wilhem Wundt

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1st experiment
Reaction time/ studied consciousness

Changed from philosophy to science

38
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Edward Tichener

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Structuralism

39
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Introspection

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Examining thoughts and feelings (non scientific)

40
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Abe Maslow

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Maslows heirarchy of needs

Need for self actualization

41
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Pyschiatrist

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Also a dr - perscription

42
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SQ3R

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Survey
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Read
Recite
Review
43
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How did pyschology as a study of behavior and mental processes develop

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Track back to EMPIRICISM- emphasizing the role of experience and evidence, espically sensory perception, in the formation of ideas while discounting the notion of innate ideas

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