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Lecture 1 Flashcards

1
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What is psychology?

A

The specific study of the mind and behavior

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2
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Who coined nativism?

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Plato

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What is nativism?

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certain skills are hardwired in the brain at birth

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What did Aristotle coin?

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the mind is a blank state and empiricism (knowledge comes from sense)

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What did Franz Joseph coin?

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phrenology (specific mental capabilities and characteristics are localized in particular regions of the brain)

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What did Paul Broca coin?

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Broca area where damage to this location causes impairments in language outputs, but the comprehension is fine

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7
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What is the opposite of the Broca area?

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Wernicke Area where the speech is fine but the comprehension is damaged

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What did Hermann von Hermholtz coin?

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physiology, stimulus, and reaction time

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What is physiology?

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the study of biological processes, especially in the human body

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What is a stimulus

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sensory input from the environment

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What is a reaction time?

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the amount of time taken to respond to a specific stimulus

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What did Wilhelm Hunt found and what are his coined definitions?

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founded the first psychological laboratory and coined consciousness, structuralism, and introspection

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What is consciousness?

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a person’s subjective experience of the world and the mind

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What is structuralism?

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the analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind and how these simple, definable components fit together to form more complex mental processes

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What is introspection?

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the subjective observation of one’s own experience

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What did William James do and what is his coined term?

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applied scientific approach to psychology and coined functionalism

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What is functionalism?

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study of the purpose of mental processes and how they enable us to adapt to our environment

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18
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What did Charles Darwin believe?

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natural selection where the features of an organism that help it survive and reproduce are more likely than other features to be passed on to subsequent generations

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19
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Who found figured out hysteria?

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Jean-Marie Charcot and Pierre Janet who believed in multiple conscious “selves”

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20
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What is hysteria?

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a temporary loss of cognitive or
motor functions, usually as a result of
emotionally upsetting experiences

21
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Who was Jean-Marie Charcot’s student?

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Sigmund Freud

22
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What did Sigmund Freud coin?

A

unconscious and psychoanalysis

23
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What is unconscious?

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idea that it influences our thoughts, feeling, and actions, but we are not aware of it

24
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What is psychoanalysis?

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Approach to bring the unconscious into conscious awareness and alleviate symptoms

25
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Who coined humanistic psychology?

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Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers who believed the therapist and client are on equal footing

26
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What is humanistic psychology?

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this really emphasizes the positive potential in all of us, understands our nature through positive potential

27
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What did John Watson coin?

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behaviorism

28
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What is behaviorism?

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the idea that all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment

29
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Why is science credible?

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it is replicable and its objective measures are observable by others

30
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What did Ian Pavlov do?

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studied the salvation in dogs and realized that the dogs salivate when they eat AND when they head the footsteps of their feeders

31
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What did B.F. Skinner believe and coin?

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animals learn by interacting with their environment and questioned free-will; coined reinforcement

32
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What is reinforcement?

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anything that increases the likelihood that a response will occur

33
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What are illusions?

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errors of perception memory, or judgment in which subjective experience differs from objective reality

34
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What is Gestalt psychology?

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a psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive the whole rather than the sum of the parts

35
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What did Sir Frederic Bartlett believe?

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people remember how a story “should” end rather than how it actually did end because our memory is influenced by our mind rather than a photographic representation of actual events

36
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What is cognitive psychology?

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the study of mental process, perception and how people think

37
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What did Karl Lashley do?

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removed parts of rat brains to observe its deficits and found the difference between behavioral and cognitive neuroscience

38
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What is behavioral neuroscience?

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Do something and see what part of the brain is firing when you read or walk, etc.

39
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What is cognitive neuroscience?

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-Trying to find a link between a brain activity and a cognitive process
-Think of something and see what area of the brain lights up

40
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What are two non-invasive “brain-scanning” during mental activities?

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PET scan and an fMRI

41
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What did John Garcia believe?

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our ancestors’ learning histories influence our learning like how rats avoid food that makes them sick

42
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Wha is evolutionary psychology?

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explains mind and behavior in terms of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection.

43
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What does Norman Triplett believe?

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our behavior is influenced by the presence of others and how we perform better around others

44
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What is social psychology?

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the study of how an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected

45
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What is culture?

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the values, traditions, and beliefs that are shared by a particular group of people

46
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What is cultural psychology?

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the suited of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their members

47
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What did Margaret Mead do?

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she was an anthropologist that traveled to far regions to study cultural differences in behavior and practices

48
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What is the main psychology organization?

A

American Psychological Association (APA)

49
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What is the largest subfield of psychology?

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clinical

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