Lesson 1

Question 1

Scientific study of behavior and mental process

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Psychology

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Outward or overt actions and reactions

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Behavior

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Internal, covert activity of minds

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Mental processes

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4 goals of Psychology

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Description
Explanation
Prediction
Control

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Focused on structure or basic element of the mind

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Structuralism

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Opened the institute for experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany 1879

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Wilhelm Wundt’s

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Who is the Father of Psychology

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Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt’s

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Who brought Structuralism to America

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Edward Titchener (Wundt’s student)

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First woman to earn PH. D in field of Psychology

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Margaret Washburn

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How the mind allows people to adapt, live, work and play.
Who proposed this

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Proposed by William James
Functionalism

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“Good Figure” Psychology Started with Wertheimer who studied sensation and perception.

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Gestalt psychology

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A field focusing not only on perception but also in learning memory

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Cognitive Psychology

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The theory and therapy based on the work of Sigmund Freud

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Psychoanalysis

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Freud proposed that there is ________,_________,_________

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Unconscious, Conscious, Subconscious

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Seven Modern Perspective

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Psychodynamic perspective
Behavioral perspective
Humanistic perspective
Biopsychological perspective
Cognitive perspective
Sociocultural perspective
Evolutionary perspective

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Modern version of Psychoanalysis

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Psychodynamic perspective

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Development of a sense of self and discovery of other motivations behind persons behavior than sexual motives

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Psychodynamic perspective

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Skinner studied operant condition of voluntary behavior

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Behavioral perspective

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People have free will, the freedom to choose their own destiny.

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Humanistic perspective

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Achieving ones potential or actual self.

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Self actualization

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Early founders of Humanistic perspective

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Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers

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Human and animal behavior. such as genetic influence, hormones and activity of nervous system

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Biopsychological perspective

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Focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving and learning

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Cognitive perspective

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Relationship between social behavior and culture.

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Sociocultural perspective

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Biological bases on universal mental characteristic that all humans share (looks at the way the mind works and why it works as it does)

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Evolutionary perspective

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Types of Psychological professionals

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Psychiatrist Psychoanalyst Psychiatric social worker Psychologist

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A medical doctor who has specialized in the Diagnoses and treatment of Psychological disorders

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Psychiatrist

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Either a psychiatrist or a psychologist who has special training in the theories of Sigmund Freud and his method of psychoanalysis

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Psychoanalyst

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A social worker with some training in therapy methods who focuses on the environmental conditions that can have an impact on mental disorders such as poverty, overcrowding stress and drug abuse.

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Psychiatric social worker

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A professional with an academic degree and specialized training in one or more areas of psychology Can do counseling, teaching and research

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Psychologist

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System of gathering data so that bias and error measurement are reduced

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Scientific Method

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tentative explanation of a phenomenon based on observation

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Hypothesis

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The science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only.

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Behaviorism

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Based much from work of Ivan Pavlov who demonstrated that a reflex could be conditioned (learned) He believed that phobias were learned. Case of Little Albert - taught to fear a white rat.

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John B. Watson

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Variable in an experiment that is manipulated by experimenter Violent Tv

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Independent variable

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variable in an experiment that represents the measurable response or behavior of the subjects in the experiment. DV: Aggressive play

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Dependent Variable

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subjects in an experiment who are subjected to the independent variable. Exp Group:

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Experimental group

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subjects in an experiment who are not subjected to the independent variable and who may receive a placebo treatment (controls for confounding variables). TV Control Group: No TV

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Control group

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a measure of the relationship between two variables.

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Correlation