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Question 1

What are the psychological perspectives class theoretical approaches

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Behaviorism
Psychoanalytical/psychodynamic 
Humanism
Evolutionary
Biological
Cognitive
Sociocultural 
Biopsychosocial

Question 2

Psychoanalytical/psychodynamic

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Unconscious mind control behavior

Repressed memories

Freud

Question 3

Behavior/behaviorism/learning

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Behavior due to conditioning reinforcement or observation

Pavlov, skinner, Watson

Question 4

Humanistic

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Individual choice
Belongingness

Maslow

Question 5

Evolutionary

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Natural selection
Survival of the fittest
Darwin

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Biological

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Genes
Hormones
Brain
Brain chemicals

Gazzaniga

Question 7

Cognitive

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Processing of information
Thinking
Memory
Perception

Loftus, Piaget

Question 8

Socio-cultural

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Interaction of people
Culture
religion
Tradition

Zimbardo

Question 9

Today

Answer 9

Eclectic- a little bit of EVERHRBING g

Biopsychosocial

Question 10

Trephination

Answer 10

Cut holes in the skull to release the evil spirits

Question 11

What does psych mean in Greek

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Soul

Question 12

What does logos mean in Greek

Answer 12

Study of

Question 13

What does Plato mean in Greek

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Theorized about the relationship between thought mind and behavior

Question 14

What is psychology

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

Question 15

What is science

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Can verifiable, objective predictions

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What is behavior

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Observable acts

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Mental processes

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Storing recalling, using info/feelings

Question 18

How is psychology different from other social sciences

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Focuses on individual behavior

Question 19

Where did psychology come from

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Philosophy (the study of knowledge)

Physiology (study of biological functions)

Question 20

What was Descartes early philosophical perspective

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I think therefore I am

Nurture

We are born knowing stuff

Question 21

What was John Locke’s early philosophical perspective

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Mind is a tabula rasa

Nature

We are born as a blank slate- everything we know is learned

Question 22

Wilhelm Wundt

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Father of psychology
Open the first psychology lab in 1879

Psychology students from around the world came to study

Focus on consciousness, discover sensations and feelings are connected

Question 23

Structuralism

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Structuralism three basic mental elements images feelings and sensations

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Functionalism

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How do we adapt applying Darwins theory of natural selection to mental processes

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Who were GEstalt and max wetherimer

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The whole experience is often more than just a sum of the parts of the experience- context is important

Question 26

Mary Witten Calkins

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Female student of William James at Harvard or male classmates refuse to stay with her became the first female president of the APA in 1905

Question 27

Margret Floyd Washburn

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First women to gain a PhD in psychology's Studied animal behavior President of the APA 1921

Question 28

The dog experiment in which the man ring a bell every time you fed some dogs and the dogs and celebrate with the food eventually leading the dogs to be trained

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Ian Pavlov (classical conditioning)

Question 29

John B Watson

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First to use the term behaviorism

Question 30

BF Skinner

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Huge influence on behaviorism introduced the idea of reinforcement and operant conditioning

Question 31

Dorothea Dix

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American activists on behalf of the insane. Created some of the first mental assylums in the United States

Question 32

Stanley hall

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Focused on child development and evolutionary theory and educational psychology First president of the American psychological Association

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Jean Piaget

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Developmental psychologist How did the cognitive development of children