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what is Animism?

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the belief that non-human entities—such as animals, plants, and inanimate objects—possess a spiritual essence.

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the birth of science can be attributed to?

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the ancient greeks

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what is a naturalistic view?

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Ancient Greeks - physical principles can explain all life (elements)

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what is the Biological view?

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Hippocrates - centrality of brain, theory of humours, holistic approach

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what did the ancient greeks contribute to psychological thought?

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mathematical view (Pythagoras - reason leads to knowledge) and Humanism (Socrates)

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what is Humanism?

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focus on reason, language, self reflection - “know thyself”

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what are the major differences between Plato and Aristotle?

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Plato: math, reason, doubted sensation reasoning**
Aristotle: empirical study (Empiricism = idea that thought/knowledge comes from experience), natural explanations, little value for math **experience*

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what are Arostotle’s (experience) ideas?

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1) Hierarchy of souls - vegetative, sensitive, rational
2) Scala Naturae - chain of being
3) Memory and recall - laws of association (similarity, contrast, frequency)
4) Imagination and dreaming
5) sensation and thinking

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How is Christianity related to the ancient greeks?

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Faith was considered more so than reason

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how is the crusades related to ancient greeks (1095-1291)?

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Aristotle was rediscovered (experience), Christianity sought to reconcile

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what is the renaissance (1450 - 1600)?

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Human centred - art and beauty

persecutions - witch hunts, mistreatment of mentally ill

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what is empiricism

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the view that all knowledge and thoughts come from experience - Locke (1632-1704) - simple to complex ideas - views of child rearing

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what is rationalism?

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view that “regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge” -Descartes (1596-1650) - doubt, dualism

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what did darwin do for psychology?

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evolution by NS, functional view (purpose), comparitive view (Humans are not unique), Developmental view

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what are the negatives of Galtons work in psychology?

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individual differences (intelligence testing), hereditary genius, eugenics

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what is trephination?

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surgical intervention where a hole is drilled, incised or scraped into the skull using simple surgical tools - method of treating mental illness

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who is credited with moral treatment of mentally ill?

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Willliam Tuke’s, Philoppe Pinel, Dorothea Dix

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what is the importance of Emil Kraepelin?

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he opposed Freud, looked at psychiatry as a branch of medicine, distinguished manic depressive psychosis, dementia, schizophrenia - eugenic views - modern psychology

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what is a lobotomy?

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neurosurgical operation that involves severing connections in the brain’s prefrontal lobe

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what is seat of soul?

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heart: Aristotle
Brain: Plato

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what is the importance of Galen?

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manipulated animal brains, disected apes and treated gladiators

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what is phrenology?

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The study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character - Franz Joseph Gall, Johann Kaspar Spurzheim

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what is ablation?

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removing parts of brain to see how it affects one - ie pigeons w Pierre Flourens

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who is credited with psychophysics and what was their work?

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  • Ernst Weber - quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus
  • Theodor Fechner - extended webers law
  • Herman von Helmholtz - trichomatic theory of vision, nerve impulses, sensation vs perception
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what is psychophysics?

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study of the relationship between stimuli (specified in physical terms) and the sensations and perceptions evoked by these stimuli

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Who founded psychology?

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Wilhelm Wundt - research and teaching lab

William James - principles of psychology

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what is voluntarism?

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an early school of psychology; Wundt - introspection (looking into ones own mind), organization of mind, “the process of organizing the mind”

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what is structuralism?

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an early school of psychology; Titchener - breaking down experience into elements is best way to understand thought and behaviour

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what is Functionalism?

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an early school of thought; James - thought it was better to look at why the mind works the way it does than to describe its parts - related to Darwin’s adaptation and function

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what is psychoanalysis?

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Sigmund Freud - the role of unconscious, Id, ego, superego - clinical based,, assuming unconscious is most powerful force behind thought and behaviour

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what is Carl Jung’s importance in psychoanalysis?

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looked at extraversion and introversion, archetypes - red book

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what did alfred adler contribute to psychoanalysis?

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inferiority complex - a lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to standards

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what did Karen Horney contribute to psychoanalysis?

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interpersonal relations (toward, away, against)

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what is behaviourism and who is credited with major work in it

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a school of psychology, proposed that psychology can be a true science only if it looks at observable behaviour - not ideas, thoughts, feelings or motives - Pavlov and Watson, Skinner

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what is cognitive theory and who is credited with it

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Edward Tolman (1886-1959) - the study of how people perceive, remember, think, problem solve, speak

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what is neuropsychology and who is credited with it?

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Hebb (1904-1985) - looking at cellular structures and how learning changes them - how the brain and the rest of the nervous system influence a person’s cognition and behaviors

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what is Gestalt psychology and why is it important?

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the idea that maintains that we perceive things as whole rather than as a compilation of parts - looking at perception, conformity (solomon asch), obedience to authority (stanley milgram)

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what is the cognitive revolution and who is credited with it

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an intellectual movement in the 1950s that began what are known collectively as the cognitive sciences. It began in the modern context of greater interdisciplinary communication and research
- Chomsky - critique of Skinner’s verbal behaviour

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what is constructivism?

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theory of knowledge that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas - Ebbinghaus forgetting curve - Carmichael, Hogen and Walter (1932) - part of the cognitive revolution

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what is Bartlett’s (1932) contribution to the cognitive revolution?

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war of the ghosts - memory is process of active construction (different pictures of cats)

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what is computational metaphor?

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part of the cognitive revolution; 
- Behaviourist model (study only observable behaviour): stimulus -> black box -> response
Cognitive model (can scientifically study internal behaviour): Input -> mediational process -> output
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what is humanistic psychology?

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theory that focuses on personal growth and meaning as a way of reaching one’s highest potential - Maslow’s Hierarchy (1908-1970) - a revolt against psychoanalysis and behaviourism

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what is Carl Rogers (1902-1987) role in humanistic psychology?

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unconditional positive regard, group theory

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who is credited with what we have learned about development?

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G. Stanley Hall - recapitulationism (1846-1924)
Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)
Erik Erikson (1902-1994)
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where do we see the future of psychology?

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Neuroscience, clinical practice, technology

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what did Fritsch and Hitzig do?

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electrically stimulated the brains of dogs

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what is the importance of Gall and Spurzheim’s approach?

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it gave acceptance to the idea of localization of brain function

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