Chapter 1 – Psychology

Question 0

mental process

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What the brain does when a person stares, recalls, or uses information or has specific feelings.

Question 1

psychology

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The scientific study of mental processes and behavior

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Behavior

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The outwardly observable acts of someone alone in a group

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structuralism

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Ideology is psych that uses introspection

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Introspection

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Process of looking into yourself and describing what’s inside

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Functionalism

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Seeks how mind adapts to world around us

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William James

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One of the founders of psych
Functionalism, thoughts in streams
Made first psych text book in 1890

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Gestalt Psychology

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An approach to psychology in regards to the principle of “the whole perceptual unit being greater than the sum of its parts.”

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Perceptual Unit

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Whole units composed of individual parts.

“Herd”

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Psychodynamic theory

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Thoughts/feelings affect behavior,
Push-pull between conscious/unconscious forces,
Iceberg model.

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Sigmund Freud

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Says unconscious forces affect behavior.

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Behavioralism

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How specific stimulus evokes specific response

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Stimulus

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Object, event, person that produces response

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Response

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Behavior/reaction to stimulus

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Insight of Behavioralism

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Stimulus –> response –> consequence

(Learning)

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Humanistic Psychology

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Assumes people have

• positive values
• free will
• deep inner creativity

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Cognitive psych

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Aims to characterize nature of human info processing

Analyzes way info is stored internall

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Evolutionary psychology

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Certain cognitive strategies came about through natural selection

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Cultural universalities

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Instances of similar practice that occur in all cultures

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Research psychology

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Study result, origin, cause of certain behaviors

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Applied psychology

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make direct use of the research findings of psychs; deal with clients.

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Theory

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A general framework for scientific study; smaller aspects can be tested.

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Eclecticism

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The process of making your own system by borrowing from several others

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Biophysical psychology

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Views behavior as strongly influenced by physiological functions

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Psychoanalytic psychology

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A system that views the individual as the product of unconscious behavior.

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Sociocultural psychology

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Behavior is strict result of social group/cultural influence

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Clinical/counseling psychologist

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Work with patients to stop to rumblings behavior or learn about themselves/others in clinics

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School/educational psychologist

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Can work of structuring school, curriculum, or work w/ individual students

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Environmental psychologist

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Study the effects of environment (toxic, natural disasters, etc.) and also help design psychologically comfy work spaces in factories.

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Developmental/child psychologists

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Help parents understand their children/ study children’s psychological development

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Industrial psychologists

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Help w/ workers psychological problems,
work space psychological,
public relations/company image

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Engineering psychology

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Help efficiency of engineering,

Study how to fix flow of malls, etc.

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Experimental psychology

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Researching psychology in universities/psych specific industries (work with drugs too)

Work to add to knowledge/literature

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Teaching psychology

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• textbook

- McDonough