Unit One

Question 1

Empiricism

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View that knowledge comes from Experience so science should rely on observation and experimentation

Question 2

Structuralism

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A school is psych no longer exists that uses introspection to explore structural elements of human mind/consciousness

Question 3

Functionalism

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A school of psych no longer exists, that studies the function of our consciousness and how it helps us adapt and survive in our society

Question 4

Experimental psychology

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Study of behavior and thinking using experiments

Question 5

Behaviorism

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View of An objective science that studies behavior without referencing mental processes, solely observable behaviors

Question 6

Humanistic psych

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Historic perspective emphasizing the growth potential of people and their potential for personal growth

Question 7

Cognitive neuroscience

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Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognitive ( perception, thinking, memory and language)

Question 8

Psychology

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The science of behavior and mental processes

Question 9

Nature nurture

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What genes and experiences add to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Through experience or born with them

Question 10

Natural selection

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Surviving traits will be passed on to generations

Question 11

Biopsychosocial approach

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An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological and social cultural levels of analysis

Question 12

Biopsychosocial biological influence

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Natural secretion of adaptive Traits
Genetic predispositions responding to environment
Brain mechanisms
Hormonal influences

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Biopsychosocial psychological influence

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Learned fears and expectations
Emotional responses
Cognitive processing and interpretations

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Biopsychosocial social-cultural influences

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Prescience of others
Cultural,societal, and family expectations
Peer and other group influences
Compelling models like media

Question 15

Levels of analysis

Answer 15

The different views from bio to psycho to social for analyzing any given phenomena

Question 16

Biological psychology

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Branch that studies the links between biological and psychological processes

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Evolutionary psychology

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Study of roots of behavior and mental processes using natural secretion principals

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Psychodynamic psychology

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Studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses info to treat people with psycho disorders

Question 19

Behavioral psych

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Scientific study of observable behavior and it’s explanation through learning

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Cognitive psych

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Study of all mental activities associated with thinking knowing remembering and communicating

Question 21

Social cultural psych

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Study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking

Question 22

Bio approach

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How body and brain enable emotion memories and armory experiences
How genes work with environment to influence individual differences

Question 23

Evolution approach

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How the natural selection of traits promoted the survival of genes

Question 24

Psychodynamic

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How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts

Question 25

Behavioral approach

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How we learn observable responses

Question 26

Cognitive approach

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How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information

Question 27

Humanistic approach

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How we meet our needs for live and acceptance and achieve self fulfillment

Question 28

Social cultural approach

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How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures

Question 29

Psychometrics

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Study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes and traits

Question 30

Basic research

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Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base

Question 31

Developmental psych

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Study of physical cognitive and social change throughout the life span

Question 32

Educational psych

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How psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching an learning

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Personality psych

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Study of an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

Question 34

Social psychology

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Study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another

Question 35

Applied research

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Study that aims to solve practical problems

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Industrial organizational | (I/o) psych

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Applying psychological concepts/methods to optimize human behavior in workplaces

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Human factors psych

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Study of how people and machines interact, | And the design of safe and easily used machines and environment

Question 38

Counseling psych

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Branch of psych that assists people with problems in loving and in achieving greater well being

Question 39

Clinical psychology

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Branch that studies assesses and treats people with psychological disorders

Question 40

Psychiatry

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Branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders, medical treatments and psychological therapy

Question 41

SQ3R

Answer 41

Survey, question, read, rehearse, review

Question 42

What did buddha do

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Pondered how sensations and perceptions combine to form ideas

Question 43

What did Confucius do

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Stressed the power of ideas and of an educated mind

Question 44

What did Hebrew scholars do?

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Anticipated today's psych by linking mind with body, people were said to think with their heart and feel with their bowels

Question 45

What did Socrates and Plato think

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Concluded that the mind is separable from the body, and that knowledge is innate. Derived principals by logic

Question 46

What did Aristotle think

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Derived principals from careful observation. Knowledge is not pre existing but grows from experiences and memories

Question 47

What did rené Descartes think

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Agreed with innate ideas and mine being deportable from body.

Question 48

What did Descartes study and conclude

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Dissected animals and concluded fluid in brain is anaimal spirits. Spirit flows through nerves prolong movement.

Question 49

What was Descartes right about

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That nerve paths are important and that they enable reflexes, he proposes the hydraulics of simple reflex

Question 50

What did Francis bacon do

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One founder of modern science, concluded superstition is deluded beliefs neglecting the ideas of failure.

Question 51

What did John Locke do

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Said the mind at birth is a blank state, on which experience writes

Question 52

Who helped form modern empiricism

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John Locke and Francis bacon

Question 53

Who created the first psychological experiment and first psychological laboratory

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Wilhelm wundt, ball sound experiment

Question 54

Who introduced structuralism

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Edward Bradford titchener, he aimed to discover the structures of them mind.

Question 55

What was titcheners experiment for structuralism

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Having people address their sensations, images and pictures for a rose

Question 56

Who came up with the phrase " only one thing in the universe we know more about than external observation, inside information"

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Titcheners and C.S.Lewis

Question 57

What was wrong with introspection

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It was unreliable, results varied from person to person

Question 58

What did William James think and introduce

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That consciousness serves a function and introduced functionalism, exploring emotions, memories, mom moment to moment streams of consciousness

Question 59

Who was denied her Harvard degree, and was the first female president of APA but not recognized for it?

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Mary calkins

Question 60

Who write the principals of psychology

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William James

Question 61

What did sigmound Freud do

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Developed theory of personality, emphasized ways emotional responses to childhood experiences and our unconscious thought processes affect our behavior

Question 62

How was earlier psychology defined

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Science of mental life

Question 63

Later defined as study of observable behavior by

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John b Watson and J F skinner

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What did Carl Rodgers and Abraham Maslow don

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Thought behaviorism too mechanistic, introducing humanistic psych

Question 65

Tips for studying psychology

Answer 65

SQ3R Overlearn Distribute time