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Chapter 1 - History of Psychology Flashcards

1
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Four main goals of psychology

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Description, explanation, prediction, control

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3 different psychological lenses

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The brain, the person, the group

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Father of psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Wilhelm Wundt contributions

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First psych lab and journal

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G Stanley Hall

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Brought psychology to America
First psych lab and journal
Established APA

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James Baldwin

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First canadian psych lab

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Structuralism

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Consciousness should be broken down into smaller parts and analyzed (opposite of Gestalt)

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Introspection

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Looking inwards on your own consciousness

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Edward Titchner

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Created term introspection

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Functionalism

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Function of consciousness is to adapt to changing environments (stream)

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William James

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father of functionalism

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Gestalt Psychology

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Meaning is lost when it is broken down

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Psychoanalysis

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Out unconscious motivations drive us to make decisions

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Preconsciousness

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Thoughts that are not conscious but can be recalled

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Sigmund freud

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father of psychoanalysis

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Behaviorism

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research should focus on the observable behavior of people

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Ivan Pavlov

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discovered classical conditioning

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John B Watson

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emphasizes nurture vs nature

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Little Albert experiment

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shows that people can be classically conditioned

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BF Skinner

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developed operant conditioning

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Albert Bandura

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studied social learning

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Humanistic psychology

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we have the capacity for positive growth and can choose destiny

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Carl Rogers

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created client-centered-therapy

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Abraham Maslow

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discovered self-actualization (pyramid)

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Jean Piaget

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created fevelopmental stages

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Cognitive psychology

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compares brain to computer - solving problems

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Behavioral neuroscience

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brain structure and genetics can influence behavior

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Donald Hebb

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founder of behavioral neuroscience

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Cultural psychology

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studies how socio-cultural environment effect cognitive processes

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Cross-cultural psychology

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cognitive processes that are universal regardless of culture

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Main branches of psych

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clinical and counselling
academic psychology
applied psychology

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