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Structuralism

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Titchner; based on belief that psychology was used to determine perception (feelings, images, physical sensations) and how they combine

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Functionalism

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William james; sensations (feelings, images, physical sensations) are all completely connected - how individuals use their perception to function in the environment.

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Psychodynamic

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Sigmund Freud; behavior is determined by subconscious, which houses inner fears, desires, trauma, etc. Childhood heavily impacts adulthood.

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Behaviorism

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John B. Watson; psychology should only study visible and measurable behavior

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Gestalt psychology

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perception depends on how people see patterns.

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Cognitive psychology

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Inner mental processes (memory, decision making, feeling, etc.)

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Positive psychology

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psychology should focus on studying happiness + success

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birth of psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt, 1879, Germany

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two components of psychology

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physiology + philosophy

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trephination

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putting a hole in someone’s head to release spirits (or blood and brains)

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Ancient Egyptian beliefs

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7 Kas

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Plato beliefs

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mind and body are separate

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Aristotle beliefs

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mind and body are intertwined

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Hippocrates

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“father of modern medicine”
4 vital fluids: blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile

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Middle Ages effects

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regression back to beliefs in evil spirits

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phrenology

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started in 1600s. a pseudoscience. studying the bumps on someone’s head to determine personality

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APA

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American Psychological Association. largest psychology organization in the world. 53 divisions of psychology

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psychology

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study of individual human behavior

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sociology

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study of group behavior, interactions, and social institutions

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anthropology

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study of past and present culture

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social psychology

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how individuals are affected by a group setting

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Both of John Watson’s things

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tabula rosa or blank slate
little albert experiment

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results of Little Albert experiment

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generalizations: associating one stimuli with another

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Skinner

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the box where rats learn to pull levers for food

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Four goals of psychology

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describe, explain, predict, control

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naturalistic observation

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observing someone in natural environment

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survey

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tool to get information

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case study

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extensive information and analysis on an individual

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clinical trials

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giving treatments to determine effectiveness

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