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Describe root of word PSYCHOLOGY

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– Greek -psyche (or soul) - and logos (the study)

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Define psychology

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Psychology is the scientific study of and the mind and behaviour

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Define mind

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The mind is the private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings

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Defined behavior

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Behavior is observable actions of human beings and non-human animals

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Why is studying human Errors/Mistakes helpful in the psychology??

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broken’ parts show how the whole working machine works

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Define nativism

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Nativism is a philosophy that certain kinds of knowledge are innate and inborn

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Defined philosophical empiricism

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Philosophical empiricism that is the idea that all knowledge is acquired through experience

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Define phrenology

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Phrenology is the idea that mental processes/abilities are localized in specific regions of the brain DEFUNCT

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Define physiology

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Physiology is the study of BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES especially in humans

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This was the Aristotle view of the child’s mind

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Tabula rasa (or blank slate)

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René Descartes argued this:

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Descartes: the body/mind are fundamentally different and separate

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Thomas Hobbes said this about the mind:

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Thomas Hobbes: the mind and body aren’t different “Mind is what the brain does”

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Franz Joseph Gall this view on the mind: ___ with a theory called ____

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Gall said - the brains and mind are linked - bigger brain = big mental capacity - he developed the theory of phrenology

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Pierre Flourens made this contribution:

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To improve on Gall’s go method - he surgically removed parts of animal brains - his conclusion: action of a partial brain differs from an intact brain

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Paul Broca linked the brain/ mind with this area:

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It’s called Broca’s area - patient Monsieur Leborgne - could only say tan - but he could still communicate and understand with gestures - only his SPEECH was affected

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define stimulus

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Sensory input from the environment

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Define reaction time

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Reaction time is the time it takes to respond to stimuli

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Defined consciousness

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Consciousness is the person’s subjective experience of the world and the mind

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Define structuralism

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Structuralism is an analysis of the basic elements of the mine

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Define introspection

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Introspection is the subjective observation of one’s own experience

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Herman von Helmholtz conclude this from his studies

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Helmholtz applied stimuli to patient - he recorded their reaction time - the Toe time> thigh time therefore signals where TRAVELLING to the brain

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Wilhelm Wundt had this approach to psychology

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Wundt said Scientific psychology should focus on analyzing consciousness - so he adopted structuralism

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Wundt was based here:

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Leipzig

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Edward Titchener took Wundt’s approach here:

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To America

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Wilhelm Wundt emphasize this:
Wudnt emphasized the Relationship between Elements of conscious
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Edward Titchener emphasized this as opposed to Wundt:
Edward Titchener emphasized IDENTIFYING the basic ELEMENTS of consciousness
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Define functionalism
Functionalism is the study of the purpose mental processes serve to help people adapt to their environment
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William James brought this approach to psychology after his European tour:
Functionalism is with James Bryant - a Mental processes to help people adapt
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Describe the relationship William James saw between functionalism and natural selection
William James: mental abilities and must have evolved because they were ADAPTIVE - abilities increase an individual fitness in and environment
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Ancient philosophers did not support their claims with this: scientists do:
Empirical evidence
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How did Flourens/Broca develop science! linking mind and behavior
They showed that damage to the brain= impairment behavior/mental functions - so the physical brain is tied to the mind
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How did Herman von Helmholtz further the science! of the mind
Helmholtz developed methods to measure reaction Time -he showed that signals travel to the brain
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What scientific achievement is Wilhelm Wundt credited with?
Wundt is credited with the founding of psychology as a scientific! Discipline - he is a structuralist/ observing the relationship! between those elements
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G. Stanley Hall did this for psychology:
G Stanley Hall established the first American psychology laboratory, Journal and the American psychology association APA
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Define hysteria
Hysteria is a temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions, using due to emotionally upsetting experiences
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Define unconscious
The unconscious operates outside conscious awareness - and it influences conscious behavior
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Psychoanalytic theory
Psychoanalytic theory emphasizes the importance of unconscious mental processes in shaving feeling and thoughts/ behavior
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Charcot and Janet observe this:
Patient had hysteria - but the symptoms disappear under hypnosis
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This psychologist believed hysteria could help understand the mind:
William James - you thought you could use a mental disruptions to understand normal operation
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Describe the root of the word hysteria:
Latin Hyster = womb - they thought women had a wondering womb Now defunct
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Describe Sigmund Freud's perspective on psychology
Freud and the psychoanalytic theory - we must discover really experiences of the patient - when we must uncover their unconscious conflicts and sexual desires
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Define psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic approach the focus is on bringing unconscious material to conscious awareness to better understand disorders
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William James and Sigmund Freud have this in common:
James and Freud Believe the mental aberrations provide important clues into the nature of mind
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Describe the contrasting workplaces James and Freud
William James working in academic setting while Sigmund Freud had clinical patients - clinical psychology
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What is criticized in Freud's psychoanalysis approach
He focuses on limitations and problems - he thinks people are hostages to unconscious childhood and primitive sexual desires - his ideas are difficult to test scientifically
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These psychologists pioneered a humanistic psychology
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers pioneered humanistic psychology
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Define humanistic psychology
Humanistic psychology is an approach to understand human nature emphasizing positive potential
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Contrast Psychoanalysis and psychology
Psychoanalysis: people have limitations, prisoners of their past, PATIENTS vs. humanistic psychology: people have potential, they are free agents developing, CLIENTS
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Charcot and Janet raise this possibility studying hysteria
Patients are different people under his hypnosis - so each of us may have more than oneself
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She was the first woman to receive a PhD in psychology
Margaret Floy Washburn - she have the animal mind book which develops the theory of consciousness - criticized
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Define behaviorism
Behaviorism is an approach where psychologists restrict himself to the study of objectively observable behavior
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Watson suggested this is about the direction of psychology
Watson: private experience is too vague for scientific inquiry - since psychology should focus on behavior! Not experience
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Defined response
Responses and action or psychological change enacted by a stimulus
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Define reinforcement
Reinforcement is the idea that the consequences! of behavior determine whether it will be more likely to be done again
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This scientist influenced Watson's theory of behavior
Ivan Pavlov
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Pavlov's experiments show that this
The sound of a tone could influence the salivation of dogs - salivation= the response
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What is the difference between Pavlov and Skinner’s approach
Pavlov: dogs are passive! participants vs. Skinner: animals act! So can they learn to craft
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Skinner build this to demonstrate reinforcement
Skinner built the conditioning chamber or skinner box -it works by reinforcement-the rat learns to push a lever to get food
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Describe Skinner application his reinforcement principles as well as the backlash
Skinner builds teaching machines - he has utopia dreams: he will make good behavior through reinforcement - he thinks free will is an illusion -there is backlash because you can't criticize free will in AMERICA
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define illusions
Ilusions are errors of perception/ memory/ judgment in which subjective experience differs from Objective reality
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Define Gestalt psychology
Gestalt psychology - we often perceived the whole rather than the sum of its parts. Gestalt - German for a unified whole
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This man developed Gestalt psychology
Max Wertheimer - he observes daddy disappearing.is interpreted as a moving dot so he concludes the whole! as perceived and not the parts - even though the movement is an illusion
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Barlett observed this
Ebbinghaus Tom Had message to test memory on himself - but Barlett instead studied story recollections - people recalled what they wanted to happen in the story not! reality
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What did Piaget theorize?
Piaget: Young children lack the particular cognitive ability that allows older! children to realize mass is constant when object is divided
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Describe Kurt Lewin's theory
A persons construal of a stimulus determines reaction ie not all kisses are pleasant - and he used topology to model subjective experience
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This invention help spur cognitive psychology
The computer helped spur cognitive psychology it introduced the idea of a flow of information = mental event are flow
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Broadbent and Miller had to these insights to the mind
Broadbent: Limited capacity to handle incoming information-less multitask - Miller: we can attend to seven 7 pieces of information at a time
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What did BF Skinner contribute to cognitive psychology
Observable behavior was pushed in Skinners book - but it cannot account for language that is strung together in original ways therefore there are cognitive processes tonight
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Lashley tried to find this in the brain
lAshley had rats in a maze - he wanted to find the precise spot when learning occurred - the rats got worse couldn't find it - it was the starting physiological psychology and it lead to behavioral neuroscience
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Define behavioral neuroscience
Behavioral Neuroscience links psychological processes to activities in the nervous system and other bodily processes
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Define cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Nueroscience is the field of study that attends to understand the link between cognitive processes and brain activity
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Define evolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology puts the mind and behavior in terms of adaptive value I'm Abilities chosen by natural selection overtime
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This scientists married evolution to psychology
e.o Wilson
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define social psychology
Social psychology is the study of the causes and consequences of sociality
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Define lewins field theory
Lewin: behavior is a product of internal forces and external forces
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define absolutism in psychology
Absolutism holds the culture makes little or no difference for most psychological phenomena
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Relativism in psychology
Relativism holds that psychological phenomena across cultures -should only be viewed in specific cultural context
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what do social and cultural psychology both add to the discipline
Social and cultural psychology expanded disciplines horizon of individuals and a greater context
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Who was the first woman to be president of the APA
Mary Calkins -argue to get structuralism -a single unit cannot be broken down into mini parts
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Is the first minority president of the APA
Kenneth Clark he said segregation of races causes great psychological harm for example African-American children prefer a white doll to black doll
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Describe the difference between us response to aline in the box Japanese response
Americans drew a line at the same length - Japanese juror line proportionately this is
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Which part of psychology has largest PhD/jobs
ClinicalPsychology is the largest
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Biological psychology
Brain focus

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