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Psychological science

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the study of mind and behaviour

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Behaviour

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Observable actions

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Lin Xie

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Tested vulnerability to distraction

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Ancient Egypt - Edwin Smith Papyrus

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Includes early descriptions of the brain and how it works

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Judeo-Christian tradition - Dead Sea Scrolls

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Note the division of human nature into two temperaments

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India

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An elaborate theory of ‘the self’ in the Vedanta philosophical writings.

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Medieval Muslim physicians

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Developed methods aimed to treat patients suffering from “diseases of the mind”

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Nativism (Plato)

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Children have a predisposition to do certain things (nature)

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Philosophical empiricism (Aristotle)

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A child’s mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) - nurture

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Descartes

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The mind and body are fundamentally different things

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Dualism

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How do the mind and body communicate with each other? Descartes thought it was through the pineal gland.

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What did Hobbes argue?

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That the mind and body are NOT different, and the mind is the product of brain activity

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Gall

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Thought that brains and minds were linked by size, and that the size of bumps and indentations on the skull tell us about the brain region under them..

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Phrenology (Gall)

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Specific mental abilities and characteristics are localized in specific regions of the brain

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Flourens

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Removed parts of animal brains to see how actions and movements differed compared to animals with intact brains

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Broca

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Studied a patient with damage to the left side of his brain (Broca’s area); he could understand language but couldn’t produce it

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Wundt

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Soul was irrelevant. Psychology must focus on physically observable phenomena and analyzing consciousness (subjective experience of the world and mind)

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Structuralism (Wundt)

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The analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind

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Introspection

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The subjective observation of one’s own experience

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Titchener

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Brought structuralism to US

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William James

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Believed that structuralism distorted the true nature of consciousness

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Functionalism (James)

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The study of the purpose mental processes serve in enabling people to adapt to their environment

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Who + what inspired functionalism?

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Charles Darwin and natural selection - our mental abilities must exist the way they are because they are adaptive

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Hysteria

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Temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions, usually as the result of emotionally upsetting experiences. Stemmed from repressed painful memories and suggested existence of subconscious.

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Psychoanalytic theory

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Emphasizes the importance of unconscious mental processes in shaping feelings, thoughts and behaviors

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Psychoanalysis

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Bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness. Aims to link childhood experiences, dreams and fantasies

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Maslow and Rogers

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Humanistic psychology

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Humanistic psychology

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Emphasizes the positive potential of human beings and focuses on self-actualization. Humanistic therapists seek to help people reach their full potential.

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Behaviourism (John B Watson)

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Challenged idea that psychology should focus on mental activity (must be objective, not subjective) and involved analyzing human and animal behaviour.

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John B Watson

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Goal of psychology should be to predict and control behaviours in ways that benefit society. He was inspired by Pavlov, who focused on stimulus-response learning - like animals, humans elicit responses from stimuli.

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Little Albert

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Conditioned by Watson to fear white rat and eventually all furry things

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Skinner

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Was interested in learning and believed that free will is an illusion.

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Concept of reinforcement (Skinner)

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Organisms repeat behaviors that generate pleasant results and avoid behaviors that produce unpleasant results

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Gestalt psychology

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Emphasized that we often see the whole rather than the sum of its parts - humans are programmed to see patterns.

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Emergence

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Image emerges from background

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Reification

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Group stimuli into meaningful entities

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Multistability

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Back and forth between 2 or more interpretations

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Invariance

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Simple geometrical objects are recognized independent of rotation, translation and scale

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Cognitive revolution (50s-70s)

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The movement that deposed behaviorism. Beginnings can be traced to WWII

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Who coined the term cognitive psychology?

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Ulric Neisser

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Cognitive psychology

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It is the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems. Focuses on processing information.

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How does cognitive psychology differ from previous psychological approaches?

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  1. It accepts the use of the scientific method, and generally rejects introspection as a valid method of investigation.
  2. It explicitly acknowledges the existence of internal mental states
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What led to the boom in cognitive psychology?

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Computers and advancing technology. Cognitive psychologists believed that the brain is like computer hardware and the mind is like computer software; began programming software to mimic human language.

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Miller

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Capacity limits in memory - he tested immediate memory via tasks such as asking a person to repeat a set of digits presented

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Broadbent

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Interested in limits of human multitasking

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Behavioural neuroscience

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Links psychological processes to physiology - where the mind meets the brain.

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Lashley

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Trained rats to run mazes and then removed sections of their brains to identify the centre of learning.

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Cognitive neuroscience

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Records brain activation during cognitive processing and relies on imaging + electrophysiological measures (EEG, MRI, PET, fMRI)

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Evolutionary psychology

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Looks at adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection - brain is hardwired to be better at solving problems our ancestors faced.

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Why do females find certain male traits attractive?

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Evolutionary goal: increased reproduction. Testosterone is linked to higher reproductive success and influences certain physical features during maturation, which are more attractive during ovulation.

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Casual sex

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  • Every time a man has intercourse with a woman, he has a chance to increase his genetic heritage - advantageous to have multiple sexual partners.
  • It’s more advantageous for a woman to be sexually selective.
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Social psychology

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A subfield of psychology that studies the causes and consequences of interpersonal behavior

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Asch

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Conducted studies that look at conformity in groups.

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Allport

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Studied stereotyping and prejudice - they’re perceptual errors that emerge as a part of our tendency to categorize. Outside groups perceived as more homogeneous than the member’s own group.

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Glucksberg

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Tested motivation using “the candle problem” - goal was to attach candle to wall without dripping wax on table.

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What were the results of Glucksberg’s experiment?

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Reward helps motivate when it comes to mechanical + straightforward tasks, but narrow focus and limit creativity.

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Cultural Psychology

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The study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their members. Studied by psychologists and anthropologists.

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Absolutionism

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Culture makes little difference on psychology

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Relativism

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Psychological phenomena are likely to vary considerably across cultures

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Cross cultural mental health

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The cultural and ethnic context of mental disorders their treatment.

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Wendigo psychosis

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  • Reported in Northern Algonquin language group
  • Usually reported in winter
  • Poor appetite, nausea, vomiting
  • Delusions of being transformed into human flesh-eating Wendigo (preoccupation with cannibalism)
  • Linked to delusional paranoia
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Koro

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  • China + Southeast Asia
  • Sexual organs retreat into body which led to premature death
  • Caused by unhealthy sex + tainted foods
  • Similar conditions in cultures with strong emphasis on fertility and procreation
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Amok

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  • Brooding period, followed by violent behaviour
  • Amnesia after violent behaviour, followed by return to premorbid state
  • Malaysia
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Anorexia and bulimia

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  • Impacted by Western ideal of female body type

- Girls from Fiji didn’t generally get EDs until exposure to sexy soap operas and seductive commercials

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Psychometrics

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Development of psychological tests

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Personality psychology

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How personality affects behaviour

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Forensic psychology

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Intersection between law and psychology

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Developmental psychology

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Usually applies to children

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Clinical psychology

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How to treat mental illnesses

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