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Chapter 1: Psychology and Scientific Thinking Flashcards

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The study of the mind, brain and behavior is known as

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Psychology

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Challenges of Psychology include:

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-some concepts are difficult to determine
-its difficult to predict behavior
-influences may be unknown
-individuality and culture play a role
-people differ in terms of emotions, thinking etc
-psychological influences are rarely independent to eachother

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Freud believed that

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a psychopath had only ID and EGO

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The ID is

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being completely unconscious

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The EGO is

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our thinking, planning, and protectiveness of oneself

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the SUPEREGO is

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our morals and self imposed behavior

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Freud spoke a lot about

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sex and aggression

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conflict between the ID and EGO causes..

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psychological disturbances

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a normal person should have ID, ____ and ___________

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EGO;SUPEREGO

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what helps us deal with conflict bewteen ID, EGO and SUPEREGO

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defense mechanisms

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the Father of Modern Psychology is

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Structuralism states that

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the goal of psychology is to identify the most basic elements of the mind and to determine how they combine with each other
-the breaking down of structures

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Functionalism states that..

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functionalists focus on investigating the function or purpose of consciousness
-what is the function or purpose?

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what was Wilhelm’s research tool?

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introspection

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Science is an..

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-approach to evidence
-helps to control bias
-helps show us cause and effect relationships
-begins with empiricism (knowledge should be acquired through observation)

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A psychologist that deals with depression, mental disorders

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Clinical Psychologists

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A psychologist that deals with temporary problems like stress

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Counselling Psychologists

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A psychologist that works with students

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Educational Psychologists

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A psychologist that studies ages, how babies are developed

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Development Psychologists

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A psychologist that works with the police

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Forensic Psychologists

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Workplace Psychologists

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Industrial Psychologists

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Patternicity is

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the human tendency to see meaningless data

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Naive Realism is..

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the tendency to believe that our perception of the world is how it truly is

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Confirmation Bias means…

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we seek info that confirms what we believe and immediately deny or dismiss info that contradicts what we believe

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the tendency to stick to our beliefs even when evidence contradicts them is known as

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Belief Perseverance

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An attempt to understand how thoughts feelings and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual imagined or implied presence of others
-why we do what we do
is known as

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Social Psychology

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An example of cognitive psychology is

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priming

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Priming is to be..

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exposed to something that impacts our behavior later but we don’t realize it ex. subliminal messages

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in the biological approach we ask ourselves..

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what impact does the brain have on behavior, looking at the brain itself

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is looking back at the past to understand why we behave a certain way an example of this is Central premise which are traits passed down through DNA

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Evolutionary Psychology

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Metaphysical claims are claims about that world that

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cannot be tested

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A scientific theory is

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a general statement about the relationship between 2 or more variables

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a good scientific theory is..

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1, supported by evidence
2.testable and falsifiable
3. an explanation
4.generate predictions for things that haven’t been observed

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a testable prediction or statement designed to be tested by experiment, express and cause and effect relationship, and can confirm or dis confirm a theory is a

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Hypothesis

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