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Name the 4 areas of research in psychology.

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Social (how our social interactions effect our behaviour and mental life)
Personality (analyzes differences), experimental(analyzes basic processes),
developmental (things that shape is through out our life)

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The science that studies behaviour and the physiological and cognitive processes is…

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Psychology

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What are the 2 main areas of practice in psychology?

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Research, and practice areas

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Define clinical psychology

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Diagnose and treat behavioural problems.

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What does a school psychologist do

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Would analyze school aged children to try and catch psychological or learning disabilities early in order to treat them.

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What was psychology originally rooted in?

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Philosophy (questions about mind and soul)

Physiology (normal function of a living organism)

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What did psychology have roots in?

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Philosophy and physiology

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What did Hippocrates contribute to psychology?

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The body mind connection

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Who ‘fathered’ psychology

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William Wundt

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What is structuralism

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The study of the structure of consciousness

Breaks consciousness down into basic elements by intraspection

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Who played a major role in structuralism

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Edward Titchener

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Which study was focused on the purpose of consciousness

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Functionalism

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Structuralism analyzes what

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The basic elements of introspection

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Of functionalism and structuralism who had the most lasting impact on psychology

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Functionalism

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Who’s views were controversial

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Sigmund Freud

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The theory of unconscious forces influencing behaviour, was developed by?

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Sigmund Freud

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Behaviouralism

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The focus on environment shaping behaviours

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Who founded behaviouralism

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John B. Watson

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The scientific study of behaviour is

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behaviouralism

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What psychological study was first to incorporate animal research

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Behaviouralism

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Which study was very popular but ignored the mind, consciousness, and mental processes

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Behaviouralism

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The condition reflex/ response is

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A conditioned response in Pavlovian conditioning is the response that the conditioned stimulus elicits after it has been repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus. The conditioned response may be similar in form to the unconditioned response. For example, the eye blink to the tone conditioned stimulus may involve the same bodily musculature as the eye blink to the puff of air to the cornea.

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What did Pavlov contribute to behaviouralism

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The conditioned response

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What is thorndike’s law of effect

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The idea that rewarded behaviours will cause people to do that behaviour more and punished the opposite
(Stamp it in, or stamp it out)

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Skinner built of of who’s work

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Thorndike

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Skinner argued what

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That free will was just an illusion

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Who were the main influences of behaviouralism

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John B. Watson (controlled environmental stimuli to modify behaviour in a predicted way),
Ivan Pavlov(conditioned reflex),
Edward Thorndike (law of effect),
B.F Skinner (free will is an illusion)

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The idea that unconscious forces effect out behaviour came from what psychologist?

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Sigmund Freud

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In response to the Freudian psychoanalysis and Watson’s behaviourism age what type of psychology developed?

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Humanism

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The idea that humans are good and society impacts them to do good or bad was from what psychological perspective.

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Humanism

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Which type of psychological study did a lot of research on animals

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Behaviouralism

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Major names in humanism

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Rogers and Maslow

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What are the 5 main perspectives of psychology?

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Behaviouralism
Psychodynamics
Humanism
Cognitive
Physiological (and evolutionary)
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Empiricism

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The premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation

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Name the 7 themes of psychology

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It’s empirical (knowledge acquired through observation)
Theoretically diverse ( many theories)
Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical (society and historical context change through time and shape psychology)
Behaviour is determined by multiple causes
Behaviour is shaped by cultural heritage
Heredity and environment jointly influence behaviour
People’s experience of the world is highly subjective

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