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William James also suggested that structuralists only looked at certain______________ whereas there were many points that needed to be taken into consideration

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Points of consciousness

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He believed in a ____________________ that should be observed as a ____________________ flow instead of pinpointing static points of consciousness.

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Stream of consciousness

Continuous

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Another difference in structuralism and functionalism was the ____________________ that they studied.

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Environments

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Structuralists used the ________________, and functionalists used the natural environment that people experience in _______________________________.

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Labatory

Every day life

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This introduced different subjects of psychology such as mental _________________, development of children, effectiveness of _____________________ practices, and the behavioral differences between ________.

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Testing
Education
Sexes

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These new subjects attracted ___________________ to the science of psychology.

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Females

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Eventually functionalism and structuralism gave away to the modern descendants of psychology: __________________ and ____________________________

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Behaviorism

Applied psychology

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Along with functionalism and structuralism, consciousness faded away from the __________________ to _______________ observations.

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Subjective

objective

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-meaning bias or concluding on personal opinions instead of fact.

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Subjective

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_____________ meaning factual or based on verifiable information

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Objective

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-founded the branch of ____________________, which is a theoretical orientation based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only ______________________ behavior.

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John Watson
Behaviorism
Observable

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This revelation of how psychology should be structured; Watson wanted psychologists to ________________ the study of consciousness and ____________ on behaviors that could be observed directly

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Abandon

Focus

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-are any overt or observable response or activity of an organism

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Behaviors

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He thought that since no one can see or touch another person’s ________________ they are private occurrences

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Thoughts

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Since psychology was supposed to be a science that it should be able to study ______________________ observable behavior

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Verified

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He also confronted the issue of “_____________________________________.”

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Nature versus nurture

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Nurture versus nature is the debate concerned with whether behavior is determined mainly by ________________ inheritance (nature) or by _________________ and experience (nurture).

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Genetic

Environments

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Basically is an artist born or made with their talents? Behaviorists came to see psychology’s mission as relating behaviors (“________________”) to observable events in the environment (“__________”)

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Response

Stimuli

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A _______is any detectable input from the environment

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Stimulus

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A stimulus could be anything from _____________ and light to advertisements on TV.

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Sound

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This approach is often called _____________________________ psychology

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Stimulus response

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Behaviorism was introduced and accepted mainly due to __________________, a Russian physiologist.

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Ivan Pavlov

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His famous experiment of training dogs to salivate when they heard an ___________________ sound

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Auditory

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This showed the strong ________ that was formed in a stimulus-response experiment, and the evidence that behaviorist needed to pave the way to stimulus-response experiments.

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Bond

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This lead to the rise of _______________ research in psychology since ______________________ was no longer the focus of psychology.
Animal | Consciousness
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One of the many reasons for the use of animals was that researchers could have more ________________ over their subjects whereas humans had many other ______________________ factors that came into play with their experiments.
Control | Complicated
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Austrian
Sigmaid fraud
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American
B.F skinner
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Skinner was stating that
Free will was an illusion
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Many psychologists found_____________________the two most influential schools of thought in psychology, to be unappealing and "dehumanizing." As a result ______ was born
Found behaviorism and psychoanalytic | Humanism
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a theoretical orientation that emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth
Humanism
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They believed that humans were __________ _________________ from animals which made the animal research ____________________ to human behavior.
Fundamentally different | Irrelevant
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Two major figures in the Humanist movement was _________________________ and __________________________.
Carl Rogers | Abraham Maslow
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Rogers said human behavior is governed by a person's "_______________________" or an individual's sense of self which animals cannot ___________________.
Self concept | Understand
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In the 1950s psychology became a
Profession
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There is a very practical side to the psychology along with a variety of professional services to the ______________.
Public
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Psychologist's work falls in the area of ______________ psychology, which is the branch that is concerned with everyday, practical problems
Applied
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-psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders.
Clinical
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In the beginning most of the focus was on psychological ________________ and only a few psychologists were involved in clinical studies.
Testing
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___________________ were a small minority in a field devoted primarily to ____________________.
Clinicians | Research
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With the start of World War II, many academic psychologists were forced into ________________ as clinicians.
Service
42
There were mainly needed to screen military _______________ and to treat soldiers suffering from trauma
Recruits
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Many of these psychologists found clinical work to be _____________________ and rewarding and continued practicing even after their service was over
Challenging
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They did not have a shortage of patients because around __________________ American veterans returned to seek postwar treatment in VA (________________________________) hospitals
400,000 | Veterans administration
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-became a sought profession by many of the Ph.D graduates across the US.
Clinical psychology
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The shift from research to clinical focus alarmed the _____________ psychologists.
Research
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Scientific
Research psychology
48
Professional
Clinical
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Tensions between the scientific and professional branches became so high that the some research psychologists formed a new organization apart from the APA (American Psychological Association) to form the_______
Aps
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American Psychological Association is
Applied/clinical
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American psychological Society is
Science/research
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is dedicated to exclusively serving the science of psychology.
American psychological society
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is the science that studies behavior and the psychological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and it is the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems.
Psychology
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The membership growth of the APA despite the APS served to show why psychology was the ______________ most popular undergraduate major.
2nd
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In the beginning psychologists were mainly in universities and colleges, but now more than ________________ of psychologists work in hospitals, clinics, police departments, research institutes, government agencies, business and industry, schools, nursing homes, counseling centers, and private practices.
2/3
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When receiving training ______________________ get a broad range of knowledge about many different areas within the field, but ______________________ is necessary for psychologists due to the many areas of study just within psychology.
Psychologist | Specialization
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Another reason specialization is required is because there are certain ____________ and ______________ that are required in some areas of research
Skills | Training
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There are __ major research areas of modern psychology
7
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The seven major research areas of modern psychology are
Development, social, experimental,physiology, cognitive, personality, psychometrics
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Applied psychology has ________ distinct areas of specialization:
4
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Applied psychology has 4 distinct areas of specialization and they are
Clinical, counseling, educational and school, industrial and organization
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There is a very practical side to the psychology along with a variety of professional services to the ______________.
Public
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Psychologist's work falls in the area of ______________ psychology, which is the branch that is concerned with everyday, practical problems
Applied
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-psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders.
Clinical
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In the beginning most of the focus was on psychological ________________ and only a few psychologists were involved in clinical studies.
Testing
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___________________ were a small minority in a field devoted primarily to ____________________.
Clinicians | Research
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With the start of World War II, many academic psychologists were forced into ________________ as clinicians.
Service
68
There were mainly needed to screen military _______________ and to treat soldiers suffering from trauma
Recruits
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Many of these psychologists found clinical work to be _____________________ and rewarding and continued practicing even after their service was over
Challenging
70
They did not have a shortage of patients because around __________________ American veterans returned to seek postwar treatment in VA (________________________________) hospitals
400,000 | Veterans administration
71
-became a sought profession by many of the Ph.D graduates across the US.
Clinical psychology
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The shift from research to clinical focus alarmed the _____________ psychologists.
Research
73
Scientific
Research psychology
74
Professional
Clinical
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Tensions between the scientific and professional branches became so high that the some research psychologists formed a new organization apart from the APA (American Psychological Association) to form the_______
Aps
76
American Psychological Association is
Applied/clinical
77
American psychological Society is
Science/research
78
is dedicated to exclusively serving the science of psychology.
American psychological society
79
is the science that studies behavior and the psychological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and it is the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems.
Psychology
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The membership growth of the APA despite the APS served to show why psychology was the ______________ most popular undergraduate major.
2nd
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In the beginning psychologists were mainly in universities and colleges, but now more than ________________ of psychologists work in hospitals, clinics, police departments, research institutes, government agencies, business and industry, schools, nursing homes, counseling centers, and private practices.
2/3
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When receiving training ______________________ get a broad range of knowledge about many different areas within the field, but ______________________ is necessary for psychologists due to the many areas of study just within psychology.
Psychologist | Specialization
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Another reason specialization is required is because there are certain ____________ and ______________ that are required in some areas of research
Skills | Training
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There are __ major research areas of modern psychology
7
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The seven major research areas of modern psychology are
Development, social, experimental,physiology, cognitive, personality, psychometrics
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Applied psychology has ________ distinct areas of specialization:
4
87
Applied psychology has 4 distinct areas of specialization and they are
Clinical, counseling, educational and school, industrial and organization

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