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1
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What is introspection

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the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes.

2
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What is structuralism

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Structuralism sought to analyze the adult mind (defined as the sum total of experience from birth to the present) in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the way in which these components fit together in complex forms.

3
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What is functionalism

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Functionalism argues that consciousness is functional and serves a purpose.

4
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William Jame’s psychological view

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Functionalism

5
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What is the psychodynamic approach?

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Posits that conscious and unconscious forces interact to control our thoughts and behaviours.
Behaviour is an interplay between thoughts feelings and wishes.

6
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What psych approach says that mental events are unconscious and that mental processes can be in conflict and this can cause anxiety

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Psychodynamic approach - Freud

7
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What psych approach aims to understand the mental life of clients by analysing speech and dreams.

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Psychodynamic approach - Freud

8
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Metaphor for psychodynamic approach

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Iceberg. Conscious = smaller but visible

Unconscious = larger but not visible

9
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Who developed classical conditioning

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Pavlov - pavlovs dog

10
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Who developed operant conditioning?

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B.f skinner - the Skinner box

11
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What psych approach states that behaviour Is simply a reaction to environmental stimuli

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Behaviourist approach - b.f skinner and Pavlov

12
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T/F
The behaviourist approach seeks to understand the relationship between stimuli and behaviour using the experimental method

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True

13
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Wilhelm Wundt’s psychological view

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Structuralism

14
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Who are the major players in the humanistic approach?

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Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow

15
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What is the Metaphor for the Humanistic approach?

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People are innately good and will strive to realize goals and ambitions

16
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What are the five levels of Maslows hierarchy of needs?

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  1. Psychological needs
  2. safety needs
  3. belonging and love needs
  4. esteem needs
    Self actualization needs
17
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What psychological approach says that the mind is like a computer?

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Cognitive approach

18
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What does the cognitive view focus on?

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It focuses on how people process, store and retrieve information

19
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What does the cognitive evolutionary view focus on?

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human behaviors evolved because hey helped our ancestors survive and reproduce

20
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What view states that we are all runners in one race, competing for resources?

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evolutionary

21
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What psych view is most similar to Darwins views?

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evolution

22
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According to Kuhn, a paradigm is?

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a system of theoretical assumptions used by scientists to make sense of their area

23
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Proponents of determinism in psychology believe that:

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actions of humans and animals follow physical laws

24
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Damage to the front section of the left hemisphere (Broca’s area) will cause

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problems in language production.