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Culture

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Shared ideas and behaviors passed from one generation to the next

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WEIRD

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Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic culture

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Gender

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Biologically and socially defined

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Positive Psychology

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Centers on happiness, uses scientific methods to support development of a good life, focus research on human flourishing

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Psychology’s Subfields

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1) Basic research
2) Applied research
3) Professional

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Professional Subfield

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  • Counseling psychologists (typical therapists, etc. master’s degree)
  • Clinical psychologists (PhD, more involved with medicine)
  • Psychiatrists (medical doctor, medical school, medical doctorate Community psychologists)
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Freudian Psychology (Psychoanalytic)

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Emphasized ways that the unconscious mind and childhood experiences affect behavior emphasized

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Skinner

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Personality theorist and therapist

thought could teach any baby/child and they could learn to do anything

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Humanistic Psychology

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Found behaviorism and Freudian psychology too limiting

Emphasized human growth potential

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Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

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Focus on need, hierarchy of needs, etc.

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Psychology

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The science of behavior and mental processes, roots in many disciplines and countries, growing and globalizing

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Cognitive Psychology

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Study of mental processes, such as those that occur when we perceive, learn, remember, think, communicate, and solve problems

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Cognitive Neuroscience

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Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition, including perception, thinking, memory, and language

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Evolutionary Psychology (not generally about origin of species) (adapt)

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Study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using natural selection principles

Nature/Nurture Issue

Are traits present at birth or developed through experience?

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Behavior Genetics

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Study of relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior

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Placebo Effect

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Experimental results caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which the recipient assumes is an active agent

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The Endocrine System

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Set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream

Slow chemical communication system

Includes pituitary glands

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Levels of consciousness

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Minimal consciousness

Full consciousness

Self consciousness

Serial conscious processing

Unconscious parallel processing

Selective Attention

Selective Inattention