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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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Psychology that is done according to the rules of science

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Psychology’s scientific study

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Refers to any activity which can be observed

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Behavior

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When did scientific psychology begin?

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1879

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He established the first psychology laboratory and is considered the Father of Modern Psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Field of psychology concerned with studying basic principles

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General Psych

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Field of psych concerned with changes that take place in a persons life span

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Developmental Psych or Genetic Psych

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Field of Psychology that focuses on consistent ways of behaving that characterizes ones personality

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Personality or Dynamic personality

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Field of psychology that studies the nervous system and other organs

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Physiological Psychology

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Field of psychology that studies the influence of other people on individual behavior

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Social Psychology

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Concerned with the classification of mental disorders

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Abnormal Psychology

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Field of psychology that involves lab research

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Experimental Psychology

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Field of psychology that focuses on the diagnosis of psychological disorders

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Clinical Psychology

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Field of psychology that provides services to moderately disturbed people

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Counseling Psychology

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Field of psychology that focuses on issues in business and industry

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Industrial or Organizational or Personnel or Business Psychology

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Field of psychology that is concerned with how students learn in classrooms

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Educational or School Psychology

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Field of psychology that is concerned with adjusting work to human limitations

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Engineering psychology

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Field of psychology that involves legal work

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Legal or Forensic Psychology

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Field of psychology that specializes in the measurement of specific behaviors

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Psychometric Psychology

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Enumerate the Applies fields of Psychology

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Clinical psych
Counseling
Industrial or Organizational
Educational
Engineering
Legal or Forensic
Psychometric

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Enumerate the Basic fields of psychology

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General Psych
Developmental or Genetic
Personality
Physiological
Social
Abnormal
Experimental

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Enumerate the behaviors

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Overt
Covert
Conscious
Unconscious
Normal
Abnormal
Simple
Complex
Verbal
Non Verbal
Rational
Irrational
Respondent
Operant

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The traditional belief that happenings and events are influenced by supernatural creatures

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He discovered an area in the frontal lobes of the brain to be responsible for the production of speech.

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A psychological approach that emphasizes studying the elemental structures of consciousness, sometimes called “elementarism”
Structuralism
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The examination of own thoughts, sensation feelings. Also referred to as “introspective psychology”
Introspection
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A school of psychology that studies the useful functions that consciousness served
Functionalism
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A broad term that refers to all intellectual processes, perceiving, believing
Cognition
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He was credited for the development of behaviorism
John B. Watson
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School of psychology that states that was based in Conditioning and states that overt responses are emitted by organisms. It is also known as S-R Psychology
Behaviorism
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Any aspect of the outside world that directly influences behavior or conscious experience
Stimulus
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Anything an organism does such as turning toward or away from the stimulus
Response
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It means that the child's mind by birth is like a blank slate or tablet.
John Locke's Tabula Rasa
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This school of psychology originated in Germany which emphasized the organization and the quality of wholeness that inheres in both behavior and experience.
Gestalt
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This approach was developed my Sigmund Freud which focuses on the unconscious mind as a determinant of behavior. It used techniques of hypnosis, dream analysis, and free association
Psychoanalysis
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This approach views that humans possess an innate tendency to improve and determine their lives by the decisions they make.
Humanistic Psychology
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This approach of psychology attends to the whole person; body mind and spirit.
Transpersonal psychology
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What are the 6 approaches of psychology
Neurobiological Behavioral Cognitive Psychoanalytical Phenomenological Eclectic
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An approach that maintains a close link with physiology and perceives the brain and nervous system as the main key to human behavior
Neurobiological approach
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A conservative approach found by J.B Watson that focuses exclusively on human behavior.
Behavioral Approach
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An approach that argues that individuals do not passively respond to stimuli but actively process information in their brain before responding
Cognitive approach
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An approach that focuses on the unconscious mental activities
Psychoanalytical approach
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An approach that rejects the view that the individual is a passive result of uncontrollable forces. It focuses on the individuals active subjective experience
Phenomenological Approach
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An approach that incorporates aspects of several theories of psychology
Eclectic approach
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He is the father of modern philosophy
Rene Descartes
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He is the father of traditional psychology
Aristotle
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He was one of the Founders of Gestalt Psychology
Max Wertheimer (1880-1943)
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It is used to illustrate Freud’s Conception of the Human Psyche
The Iceberg Metaphor
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Serves as the reservoir of all unpleasant tasks
Unconscious
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It is found in the unconscious . It has no sense of right and wrong. Operates under the PLEASURE principle
Id (it)
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Found in all 3 levels of consciousness. Serves as the mediating agent. Operates under the REALITY principle
Ego (self)
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Found in the unconscious but has contact with reality. Represents standards and laws of society. MORAL PRINCIPLE
Superego (conscious)
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Who were the leading humanists who developed humanistic approach
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers
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Who were the precursors of Transpersonal Psychology
Robert and Clark

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