Chapter 1

Question 1

What are the three main characteristics of Psychology

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1. It is a science
2. Psychology studies individual behavior
3. Psychology studies the variables that influence behaivor

Question 1

What is psychology

Answer 1

is the scientific study of behavior individual organisms and how environmental, psychological ,mental, social, and culture events influence these behaviors

Question 2

The projecting of human experience and abilities onto non-human objects

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Anthropomorphization

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Five Intending Influences

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1. Environment 2. Physiology 3. Social Interactions 4. Culture 5.Mental Processes

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What is Behaivor

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is anything that a dead person can’t do

Question 5

What is the philosophical ways of thinking about psychology’s goals and the nature of human behavior

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Perspectives for Psychology

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what is the idea that goals of psychology should be to : reduce experience to its basic elements, connect elements to physiological, discover the laws that govern these elements

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Structuralism

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What argued that psychology’s goal should be to study how consciousness and experience aid in adjusting to the environment

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Functionalism

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Aims to understanding the evolutionary pressures that shaped Behavior and the adaptive function of behavior

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Evolutionary Pyschology

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Human Experience is more than the sum of the component parts - How do you think, How do you perceive

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Gestalt

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Argued that psychology’s goal should be to study directly observable behavior and to understand how environmental events produce behavior

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Behaviorism

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A sub field that aims to understand both external and internal behavior

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Behavor Analysis

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Argued that our psychological experience is the product of conflict between our id-the desire to find physical satisfaction and fulfill biological needs-and the superego the need to meet the demands of society. The ego seeks compromise between the superego and id

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Psychodynamic Theory

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Believed the goal of psychology to be understanding human strengths, aspirations, conscious experience free will , and potential

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Humanistic Psychology

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sub field of psychology that aims to understand the strengths, virtues, and values of human behavior

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Positive Psychology

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How the physical systems produce behavior

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Bio Psychology

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how the senses collect energy from the environment and then process this sensory information to create a model of the world

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Sensation and Perception Psychology

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How the individual changes, physically, cognitively, and emotionally over the lifespan

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Development Psychology

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How behavior changes overtime and across spieces in response to environmental influences

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Behavior Analysis

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How psychological information is processed , stated and interpreted

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Cognitive Psychology

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How individuals differ in their mental capacities and abilities

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Psychology of Intelligence

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How consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving exist withing and across individuals

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Personality Psychology

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how psychological problems including mental illnesses develop, impact life and are treated

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Psychopathology

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How the social environment-including individuals and groups- influence the individuals behavior, including how he or she thinks,act and feels

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Social Psychology

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A sub field of psychology that explores how culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and disability influence behaviors, and cuts across traditional sub fields, strongly representing the growing integration withing psychology as modern research tools ally psychologists to ask more complicated and comprehensive research questions.

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Multicultural / Diversity Studies

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Sub field of psychology that examines the applications of psychological principles to work and business- an attempt to improve the efficiency of workers in factories and other technological settings

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Industrial/Organizational Psychology

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Three main characteristics of Psychology

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1. Psychology studies individual behaviors
2. It is science
3. It studies the variables that influence behaviors

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The Five Intending Influences

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1. Environment
2. Physiology
   3.Social Interaction
3. Mental Processes
4. Cultural

Question 28

Father of Experimental Psychology, 1874 first psychology textbook, born in Leipzig Germany (1832-1920)

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Wundt

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Popular british philosopher interested in mental activity. Set the stage for the development of psychology through both his arguments in favor of applying the scientific process to exploration of human behavior. And his application of ideas and concepts from chemistry to psychological exploration

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John Stuart Mill

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Evolution by natural selection in on the origin of species. Dualism:the idea that humans are a combination of physical and non-physical components

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Charles Derwin

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Father of American Psychology 1890-the 1st american textbook

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William James

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Argued that psychological science should rely on observable replicable measurements of behavior and mental events

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Wundt

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What is Psychology

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It is the srudy of individual behavior and how environment, physical, menta, social, and culture events influence these behaviors

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the projection of human experience and abilities onto non-human objects

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Anthropomorphization