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1
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At first psychology was _______ based not science based

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Knowledge

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2
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Who is the father of psychology?

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Wilhelm Wundht

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3
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Who used Introspection to search for the mind’s structural elements?

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Edward Tichener

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4
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The stream of consciousness is related to?

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Functionalism

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5
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The First American woman in the APA was

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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Who held the Little Albert experiments?

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John B. Waston

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_______ only concern themselves with observable behavior

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Behaviorists

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_________ _______ is the study of brain activity linked with cognition

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Cognitive Neuralscience

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__________ is the scientific study of human behavior and mental process

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Psychology

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10
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The debate whether behavior is caused by genes or learned is the…

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Nature vs. Nurture Debate

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11
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Is Motor development Nature or Nurture?

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Nature

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12
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Is Language Nature or nurture?

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Nurture

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13
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Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base

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basic research

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14
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scientific study that aims to solve practical problems

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applied reserach

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15
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a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and in achieving greater well-being

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counseling pyschology

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16
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a branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders

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clinical psychology

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17
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a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medial treatments as well as psychological therapy.

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Psychiatry

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18
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Which perspective looks at how we encode process, store and retrieve information?

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Cognitive

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19
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Which perspective looks at how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures?

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Social-Cultural

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20
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Which perspective looks at how behavior springs from unconscious derives and conflicts?

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Psychodynamic

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21
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With a Psy.D you tend to focus more on…

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Paitents

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22
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A Psychologist has ______ privileges but NO ________ privileges

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Hospital but NO PRESCRIPTION

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23
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A Psychiatrist has both ________ privileges and ________ privileges.

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Hospital and PRESCRIPTION

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24
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A Psychiatrist’s biggest risk is what?

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Having a patient commit suicide

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25
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______ psychology is how a certain drug works

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Physiological

26
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Jim Jones and “drinking the kool-aid” is an example of ______

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social psychology

27
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This psychologist works with the SCHOOL

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Educational Psychology

28
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These psychologists design products that are user-friendly

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Engineers Psychology

29
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These psychologists improve productivity in the workplace

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Industrial/Organizational Psychology. (I/O Psychologist)

30
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These psychologists deal with more soveier mental disordered paitents

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clinical psychologists

31
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Behavioral Perspective view the human being as a ________

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Black Box. (Stimulus—Response)

32
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Biological Perspective looks at the ____ _____. Understands humans based on their ______ and endocrine system.

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Medical Model; Nervous System

33
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Who studied the psycho-analytic perspective?

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Freud

34
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The Psycho-analytic perspective studies behavior from three components.

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ID, Ego, Super-Ego

35
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The ID is driven by

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Sex

36
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The Ego is the ______ principle

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reality

37
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The Super-Ego is the _____

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conscience

38
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The Skinner box uses Stimulus and

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response

39
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In the Skinner Box Operant Strength =

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addiction

40
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Cognitive psychologists view the brain as a

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computer

41
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The brain processes 6Gb a second but only realizes about

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120kb

42
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What are the ABC’s of behavior?

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Antecedent: Condition that sets up behavior
Belief: belief that results from condition
Consequences: outcome of belief

43
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What is changing the way you view an antecedent?

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Cognitive Restructuring

44
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Who started client centered therapy?

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Carl Rogers

45
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The Neurobiological perspective looks at behavior as an interaction between the ______ and _____ system

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nervous and endocrine

46
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Who theorized learning, memory, emotion, and perception?

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Aristotle

47
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Who measured “atoms of the mind”

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Wundt

48
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What focuses on how mental processes enable us to adapt and survive?

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Functionalism

49
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This used introspection to define the mind’s make-up

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Structuralism

50
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When this woman joined call all males dropped out

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Mary Calkins

51
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Who was the first female Psychologist to get a PHD

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Margaret Wasburn

52
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Watkins & Skinner dismissed____

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introspection

53
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What emphasized the ways our unconscious thought process and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior?

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Freudian Psychology

54
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Who said we inherit character and intelligence but we are born with some things.

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Plato

55
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Who said that the mind was a blank slate.

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Locke

56
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The Biopsychosocial approach is the __________ approach

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COMPLETE

57
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_________ psychologists adapt the environment for students.

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Community

58
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________ research tackles practical problems.

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Applied

59
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________ build’s psychology’s knowledge base.

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Basic

60
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To check for biases, psychologists report their research with these definitions…

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Operational Definitions

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