Ch 1 Evolution of Psychology Flashcards

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Why is Stanley g. hall noteworthy in the history psych?

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He established the American psychological association and was the first president of it

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What is Wilhelm Wundt known for?

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The establishment of the first formal lab for research in psychology

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What approach of psych can be compared to examining a movie frame by frame rather than viewing it as a moving image?

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structuralism

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A tennis coach insists that he can make any reasonable healthy individual into an internationally competitive tennis player. the coach’s perspective echoes he statements of which psychologist?

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Watson

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a young man forgets to pick up his mother at the airport. Which approach would suggest that his forgetfullness is an unconscious way of saying that he does not welcome her visit?

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Psychoanalytic

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what does B.F Skinner believe in?

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Free will is an illusion!

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What type of psychologist would be most likely to look after someone who needs help with their endocrine system and their genetic mechanisms?

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physiological psychologist

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what two types of psych perspectives hold similar viewpoints?

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functionalism and evolutionary psychology

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what is the theoretical perspective of positive psychology?

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humans have a great capacity for achievement and happiness. research in psychology can help us understand and reach those positive states

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If you wanted to become a psychiatrist.. what tyoe of degree would be required?

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M.D

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In which area of psychology did Canadian psychologist Donald Hebb conduct research?

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Neuro psychology

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what are the 7 major research areas in psychology?

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developmental
social
experimental
physiological 
cognitive 
personality
psychometrics
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what are the four professional specialities in psychology?

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clinical
counselling
educational
industrial

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what did Wilhelm Wundt focus on?

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consciousness

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what is structuralism?

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to study psych in terms of consciousness into elements and investigate how they’re related

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what is functionalism?

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to study psych based on the belief that psych should investigate the function of consciousness

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What is behaviourism based on?

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the idea that psych should only study observable behaviour

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what is introspection, and what theory does it work with?

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Structuralism.

Introspection is the self-observation of ones own conscious experience

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True or false, 2 decades before Watsons case of behaviourism, Pavlov discovered how stimulus response bonds are formed

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true

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what does Freud believe?

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Mental disorders are caused by personal conflicts at an unconscious level

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what does psychoanalytic theory attempt to explain?

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personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behaviour

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is William James a functionalist or structuralist?

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Functionalist

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true or false, psychology’s intellectual parents were classic philosophy and 19th century philosophy and psysiology

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true

23
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Who is responsible for the rapid growth of psychology in North America?

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Stanley g. Hall

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What psychological theory attempts to explain personality, motivation, and mental disorders by focusing on the unconscious determinants of behaviour?

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psychoanalytic

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true or false, Freud affected the trends of belief by revisiting the unconscious?

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true

26
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Does skinner believe that people are controlled by their environment?

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yes

27
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Why was Skinner controversial? 3 reasons

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Analysis that Free will was an illusion
he was misrepresented in the press
he was advocating the undemocratic

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Why was humanism created?

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because some people thought that psych was being dehumanized

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True or false, Carl Rogers (humanistic/existential) believed that ones sense of self influences behaviour

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true

30
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When was the first Canadian psychology lab created and where was it?

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Toronto, 1891

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When was psychology first deemed a separate academic topic in Canada?

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1838

32
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what are the six psychological perspectives?

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Psychoanalytic
behavioural 
humanistic 
cognitive 
biological 
evolutionary
33
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Who opened the first Canadian experimental psych lab?

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James Baldwin

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What is the cognitive perspective and when was it popular?

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thinking and conscious experience

was most popular in 1950s and 1960s

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when speaking about the cognitive perspective, what did chomsky and piaget focus on?

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piaget- childhood development

chomsky- language

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What is the biological perspective and when was it most popular?

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behvaiour can be explained in terms of bodily structures and biochemical processes
most popular in 1950s and 1960s

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why were cultural factors originally ignored? 5 reasons

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costly 
ethnocentrism 
difficult 
time consuming 
might foster stereotypes
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what lead to the increasing amount of cutural studies in psych?

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sociopolitical upheavals in 1960s-1970s
civil rights movement
advances in travel
the western world had become more diverse

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Explain evolutionary psychology

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examines behavioual processes in terms of adaptive value

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When did evolutionary psychology first emerge?

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1990s

41
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What context does psychology evolve in?

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sociohistorical

Ex. WW2 created many jobs in psych

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true or false, behaviour is determined by multiple causes?

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true