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1
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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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Psychology that is done according to the rules of science

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Psychology’s scientific study

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Refers to any activity which can be observed

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Behavior

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When did scientific psychology begin?

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1879

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He established the first psychology laboratory and is considered the Father of Modern Psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Field of psychology concerned with studying basic principles

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General Psych

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Field of psych concerned with changes that take place in a persons life span

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Developmental Psych or Genetic Psych

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Field of Psychology that focuses on consistent ways of behaving that characterizes ones personality

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Personality or Dynamic personality

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Field of psychology that studies the nervous system and other organs

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Physiological Psychology

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Field of psychology that studies the influence of other people on individual behavior

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Social Psychology

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Concerned with the classification of mental disorders

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Abnormal Psychology

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Field of psychology that involves lab research

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Experimental Psychology

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Field of psychology that focuses on the diagnosis of psychological disorders

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Clinical Psychology

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Field of psychology that provides services to moderately disturbed people

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Counseling Psychology

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Field of psychology that focuses on issues in business and industry

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Industrial or Organizational or Personnel or Business Psychology

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Field of psychology that is concerned with how students learn in classrooms

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Educational or School Psychology

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Field of psychology that is concerned with adjusting work to human limitations

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Engineering psychology

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Field of psychology that involves legal work

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Legal or Forensic Psychology

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Field of psychology that specializes in the measurement of specific behaviors

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Psychometric Psychology

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Enumerate the Applies fields of Psychology

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Clinical psych
Counseling
Industrial or Organizational
Educational
Engineering
Legal or Forensic
Psychometric

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21
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Enumerate the Basic fields of psychology

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General Psych
Developmental or Genetic
Personality
Physiological
Social
Abnormal
Experimental

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Enumerate the behaviors

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Overt
Covert
Conscious
Unconscious
Normal
Abnormal
Simple
Complex
Verbal
Non Verbal
Rational
Irrational
Respondent
Operant

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The traditional belief that happenings and events are influenced by supernatural creatures

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Animism

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He discovered an area in the frontal lobes of the brain to be responsible for the production of speech.

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Paul Broca

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A psychological approach that emphasizes studying the elemental structures of consciousness, sometimes called “elementarism”

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Structuralism

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The examination of own thoughts, sensation feelings. Also referred to as “introspective psychology”

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Introspection

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A school of psychology that studies the useful functions that consciousness served

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Functionalism

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A broad term that refers to all intellectual processes, perceiving, believing

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Cognition

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He was credited for the development of behaviorism

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John B. Watson

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School of psychology that states that was based in Conditioning and states that overt responses are emitted by organisms. It is also known as S-R Psychology

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Behaviorism

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Any aspect of the outside world that directly influences behavior or conscious experience

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Stimulus

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Anything an organism does such as turning toward or away from the stimulus

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Response

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It means that the child’s mind by birth is like a blank slate or tablet.

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John Locke’s Tabula Rasa

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This school of psychology originated in Germany which emphasized the organization and the quality of wholeness that inheres in both behavior and experience.

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Gestalt

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This approach was developed my Sigmund Freud which focuses on the unconscious mind as a determinant of behavior. It used techniques of hypnosis, dream analysis, and free association

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Psychoanalysis

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This approach views that humans possess an innate tendency to improve and determine their lives by the decisions they make.

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Humanistic Psychology

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This approach of psychology attends to the whole person; body mind and spirit.

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Transpersonal psychology

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What are the 6 approaches of psychology

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Neurobiological
Behavioral
Cognitive
Psychoanalytical
Phenomenological
Eclectic

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An approach that maintains a close link with physiology and perceives the brain and nervous system as the main key to human behavior

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Neurobiological approach

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A conservative approach found by J.B Watson that focuses exclusively on human behavior.

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Behavioral Approach

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An approach that argues that individuals do not passively respond to stimuli but actively process information in their brain before responding

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Cognitive approach

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An approach that focuses on the unconscious mental activities

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Psychoanalytical approach

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An approach that rejects the view that the individual is a passive result of uncontrollable forces. It focuses on the individuals active subjective experience

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Phenomenological Approach

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An approach that incorporates aspects of several theories of psychology

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Eclectic approach

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He is the father of modern philosophy

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Rene Descartes

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He is the father of traditional psychology

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Aristotle

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He was one of the Founders of Gestalt Psychology

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Max Wertheimer (1880-1943)

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It is used to illustrate Freud’s Conception of the Human Psyche

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The Iceberg Metaphor

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Serves as the reservoir of all unpleasant tasks

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Unconscious

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It is found in the unconscious . It has no sense of right and wrong. Operates under the PLEASURE principle

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Id (it)

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Found in all 3 levels of consciousness. Serves as the mediating agent. Operates under the REALITY principle

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Ego (self)

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Found in the unconscious but has contact with reality. Represents standards and laws of society. MORAL PRINCIPLE

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Superego (conscious)

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Who were the leading humanists who developed humanistic approach

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Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

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Who were the precursors of Transpersonal Psychology

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Robert and Clark

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