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Known as the “founder of psychology”

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Wilhelm Wundt

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What is the root word of “psych”

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Soul

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Nature VS nurture

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genetic inheritance VS environment and experience

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Principal contributors to Behaviourism?

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John B. Watson, Ivan Pavlov, B. F Skinner

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Subject matter of behaviourism?

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Effects of environment on the overt behaviour of humans and animals

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Basic premise of behaviourism?

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Only observable events (stimulus-response relations) can be studied scientifically

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Principal contributors to psychoanalytic theory?

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Sigmund freud, carl jung, alfred adler

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Subject matter of psychoanalytical theory?

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unconscious determinants of behaviour

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Basic premise of psychoanalytical theory?

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Unconscious motives and experiences in early childhood govern personality and mental disorders

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Principal contributors to humanistic perspective?

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Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow

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Subject matter of the humanistic approach?

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Unique aspects of human experience

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Basic premise of humanistic theory?

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Humans are free, rational beings with the potential for personal growth, and they are fundamentally different than animals

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Principal contributors to cognitive approach?

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Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, Herbert Simon

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Subject matter of cognitive approach?

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Thoughts, mental processes

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Basic premise of cognitive approach?

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Human behaviour cannot be fully understood w/out examining how ppl acquire, store and process info

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Principal contributors to Biological perspective?

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James Olds, Sperry, Hubel and Wiesal

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Subject matter of biological psychology?

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Psychological bases of behaviour in humans and animals

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Basic premise of biological perspective?

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An organisms functioning can be explained in terms of the bodily structures and biochemical processes that underlie behaviour

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Principal contributors to evolutionary perspective?

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Buss, Daly, Wilson, Cosmides, Tooby

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Subject matter of evolutionary perspective?

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Evolutionary bases of behaviour in humans and animals

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Basic premise of evolutionary perspective?

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Behaviour patterns have evolved to solve adaptive problems; natural selection favors behaviours that enhance reproductive success

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Cognition

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mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge. cognition involves thinking or conscious experience

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Applied psychology

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branch of psychology concerned with everyday, practical problems -> psychologists who provide professional service to public

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Clinical psychology

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branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems

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James Mark Baldwin

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Opened the first experimental laboratory in Canada. It was established at UFT in 1891.

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“i think therefore i am”

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descartes

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(beginnings of psych) Structuralism

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studied diff structures of mental processes -> inner workings of the mind. Used introspection -> self examination and looking within

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Functionalism

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Need to know how consciousness was formed and how they function together -> not what the mind does but instead its purpose

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focus on how unconscious mental processes direct behaviour

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psychoanalytic perspective

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we are born as a blank slate and the environment prints upon us what we are to become

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behaviourism

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individuals motivated by a need for self-actualization -> to be the best and all u can be

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humanistic perspective

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mental processes involved in knowing -> ideas and thoughts are more important than behaviour

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Cognitive perspective

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behaviour and biology interact in important ways

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biopsychological

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focus on cultural diversity

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Cultural psychology

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focuses on how social factors affect both behaviour and mental processes

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social perspectice

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behaviours that help organisms adapt will be passed on to successive generations

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charles darwin

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