Unit 0: The Story Of Psychology Flashcards

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Neuroscience

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Focus: how the body and brain enable emotions, memories and sensory experiences

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Evolutionary

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Focus: How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one’s genes

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Behavioral genetics

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Focus: how much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences

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Psychodynamic

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Focus: how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts

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Behavioral

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Focus: how we learn observable responses

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Cognitive

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Focus: how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information

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Social-cultural

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Focus: how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures

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Humanistic

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Positive

Becoming the best you could possibly be

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Biological psychologist

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Exploring links between mind and brain

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Developmental psychologist

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Studying our changing abilities

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Cogonitive psychologist

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Experimenting with how we perceive, think and solve problems

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Personality psychologist

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Investigating out persistent traits

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Social psychologist

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Exploring how we view and affect one another

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Counseling psychologist

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Improve our social functioning by helping us cope

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Clinical psychologist

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Treat mental and behavioral disorders

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Industrial/organizational psychologist

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Use methods in the workplace to help organizations and companies select and train employees boost morale and productivity

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Founded psychology

Founded structuralism

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William James

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Founded fuctionalism

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Structuralism

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Uses introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind
Relied on introspection

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Functionalism

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Focuses on how mental and behavioral processes function

Based on natural selection

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The two disciplines psychology developed from

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Philosophy and biology

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Ivan Pavlov

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Learning and behavior

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Sigmund Freud

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Theory of personality and psychoanalysis

“Things in your past affect who you are today”

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Jean Piaget

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Child development

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John B. Watson
Behaviorism Baby Albert Fear is learned
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B.F. Skinner
Behaviorism Environment determines behavior Positives repeated Negatives not
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Behaviorism
Based on observable behavioral responses
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Nature-nurture debate
Debates if our traits and the way we behave come with experience or if these come with the brain
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Biological influences
Come from natural process of your body and nature | Ex. genetic mutations, genes responding to enviroment
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Psychological influences
Come from your mind, what you think and how you see things | Ex. learned fears, emotional responses
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Social-cultural influences
Come from the people/ groups around you | Ex. compelling models, presence of others
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Psychology
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes