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Foundations: History Flashcards

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Psychology

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The study of behavior and the mind

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Behavior

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Observable actions of a person or an animal

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Mind

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The sensations, memories, motives, emotions, thoughts, and other subjected phenomena particular to an individual or animal that are not readily observed

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Dualism

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Divides the world and all things in it into two parts: body and spirt

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Brain

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Command center of the central nervous system

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Empiricism

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The acquisition of truth through observing and experiences

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Tabula rasa (blank slate)

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Humans are born knowing nothing

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Materialism

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The belief that only things that exist are matter and energy

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Natural selection

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All creatures have evolved into their present state over long periods of time

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Structuralism

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Looking for patters in thought, which are illuminated through interviews with a subject describing his or her conscious experience

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Functionalism

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Seeks to understand how the mind functions

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Biological psychology approach

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Field of psychology that seeks to understand the interactions between anatomy/physiology and behavior

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Behavior genetics approach

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The field of psychology that explores how particular behaviors may be attributed to specific, genetically based psychological characteristics

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Behavioralist approach

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Psychology is the study of behavior

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Classical conditioning

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Basic form of learning in which a behavior comes to be elicited by a formerly neutral stimulus

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Operant conditioning

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Subjects learn to associate a behavior with an environmental outcome

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Cognitive approach

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The idea that to understand people’s behavior, we must first understand how they think

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Humanistic approach

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The philosophical tradition of studying the roles of consciousness, free will, and awareness of the human condition

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Self-actualization

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The news for individuals to reach their full potential in a creative way

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Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approach

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Our behaviors and mental processes are influenced by our past experiences

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Sociocultural approach

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The environment a person lives in has a great deal to do with how the person behaves and how other perceive that behavior

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Evolutionary approach

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Behavior can be explained in terms of how adaptive that behavior is to our survival

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Biopsychosocial approach

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Emphasizes the need to investigate the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors in contributing to a behavior or a mental process

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