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Chapter 1 - Psychology Flashcards

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Psychology

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Biopsychology

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Biological bases of behavior that involves neuroscience

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Biopsychologist

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look for a medical cause for a mental disorder

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Cognitive psychology

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study of thoughts and awareness via the mental process

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Developmental/human development psychology

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study of a lifespan (womb to tomb) that involves physical, cognitive, and psychosocial areas

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Personality psychology

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study in unique patterns of behavior over time to see if they are a stable or unstable part of your personality on basis of nature vs nurture

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Health psychology

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study the link between psychological factors and physical health (aka stress leads to hair loss)

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Clinical psychology

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Diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders with the help of the DSM

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Social Psychology

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study how people are affected by others; social interaction whether it be real, implied, or imaginary people

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Cross-cultural psychology

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social psychology across cultures and ethnic groups

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Evolutionary psychology

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Influence of our genetic heritage on our behavior based on Darwinism

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In the early years, scientists would perform a specific procedure on the brain called what?

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trephining

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What is trephining?

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trephining is making a hole in the skull to let the brain bleed out for the purpose of getting rid of demons

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Most of the time, what did trephining lead to?

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death because it was so dangerous

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What did Rene Descartes state?

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Rene Descartes states that there were evil spirits that possess your “hollow tubes” and that there was a link between the body and the mind

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What is phrenology (not a science)?

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the study of the shape and size of your skull that indicated character and mental abilities

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When was structuralism discovered?

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1879

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Who discovered structuralism?

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William Wundt

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What did structuralism state?

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the mind was broken down into individual elements that did not work together so that it could format perception

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What profession did William Wundt have?

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he was a psychologist and a physician

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What technique did William Wundt use on his patients during his research?

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introspection and looking at pictures

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What is introspection?

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the examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes

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Who developed the first psychology lab?

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William Wundt

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What happens if you introspect too much?

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you can get depressed because of overthinking

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When was functionalism discovered?

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1895

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Who discovered functionalism?

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William James

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What is functionalism?

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the idea that all parts of the brain work together for survival and the thoughts can’t be contained, more so they are a “stream of consciousness”

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What technique did Freud use in his study?

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free association

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What is free association?

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talking about something and saying whatever came to your mind

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What is the problem with doing the stream of consciousness/functionalism?

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the problem is that you can get too aware, some things are too private, altering your thoughts

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What is gestalt psychology?

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the parts are different than their sum

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What did gestalt psychology assume?

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that people saw things as a whole

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Who discovered psychoanalysis?

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Sigmund Freud

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What was Sigmund Freud’s profession?

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neurologist

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What was Sigmund Freud interested in?

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psychosexual development

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What did Sigmund Freud observe in his patients?

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they were getting nervous disorders without any apparent physical cause

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What did Sigmund Freud say about the unconscious part of the mind?

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it repressed the threatening urges and desires since we may do things without thinking stem from the old brain (hypothalamus)

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What does psychoanalysis focus on?

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your unconsciousness

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Who discovered behaviorism?

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John B. Watson

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What does behaviorism state?

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phobias are learned and we aren’t born with them

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What was the famous experiment associated with behaviorism?

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the Little Albert Experiment

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What happened in the Little Albert Experiment?

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He would sound a loud startling gong sound and present the creature to little albert–toddler became fearful whenever he heard the gong sound→ was be able to learn phobias through behavior

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What did Ivan Pavlov state?

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you can condition someone to behave a certain way or condition something out of them with the concept of reinforcement

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What experiment is associated with conditioning?

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the Dog and Bell experiment

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What happened in the Dog and Bell experiment?

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behavior can then theoretically can be UNLEARNED
study salvation in dogs —> digestion and noticed every time he went to feed the dogs he would ring the bell → dogs would start to salivate to the sound of the bell

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What are today’s perspectives?

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humanistic, neuroscience, psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral

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What is the humanistic perspective?

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that we have free will as long as no harm is done to others and that everything is good (unconditional positive regard)

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What is the neuroscience perspective?

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Biological bases of behavior - subfields: biopsychology, developmental psychology

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What is the psychodynamic perspective?

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Inner, unconscious forces

-looks at conflict; clinical psychological adopt this perspective

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What is the cognitive perspective?

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Higher mental processes (thinking, reasoning)

cognitive psych, social psych, developmental psych, clinical

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What is the behavioral perspective?

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Environment and observable events - all behavior is learned

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What is a perspective?

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approach that you take to researching and understanding psychology→ used more than once in pairing with subfields

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What are the three steps to research in psychology?

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question, literature, hypothesis

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How can you measure variables?

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self-report surveys and observation

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What are the problems with self-report surveys?

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Wording of questions - go into study being objective and without bias
Socially acceptable responses
relying on memories

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What is the problem with measuring variables with observations?

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even though there are more people watching, the Public may = unnatural behavior - adhere to social norms

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What is an implicit measure?

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Assesses attitudes that participants are not aware of having (getting around observation and surveying)
Reaction time
Implicit (not outwardly said, but understood) Association Test (IAT) 🡪 measures extent to which 2 concepts are associated

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What did Wil Cunningham & Uli Schimmack do?

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measured reaction time and how closely related two variables were with one another

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What is correlational research?

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measures direction and strength of relationship

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Is correlation causation?

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NO

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Does the correlational research manipulate variables?

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no

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What’s a positive correlation?

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both variables going in same direction

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What is a negative correlation?

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both variables going in the opposite direction

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What are experiments?

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look for cause and effect

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What is the independent variable?

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the variable getting manipulated

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What is the dependent variable?

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the variable getting measured

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What is random sampling?

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everyone in population has = chance of being in study

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What is random assignment?

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everyone in the study has an equal opportunity to have a change of assignment to a condition

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What is evolutionary psychology based on?

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Darwinism

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