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Foundations Of Psychology Flashcards

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1
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What is nativism?

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Born to have knowledge

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Who founded the idea of Nativism?

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Platon

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What is philosophical emprirism?

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Knowledge is accumulated through the environment

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Who founded the idea of philosophical emprirism?

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Aristotle

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What is the concept of Dualism?

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Person is made of 2 parts; spiritual (soul) and material

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Who founded the idea of dualism?

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Descartes

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What is the part in the brain associated with the soul, according to Descartes?

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The pineal gland

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Who goes against the idea of Dualism

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Hobbes

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What philosophical idea did Hobbes have?

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Materialism (aka monism)

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What philosophical idea did John Locke have?

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Philosophical realism

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What philosophical idea did Immanuel Kant have?

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Philosophical idealism

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What is the study of influence of nurture without changing the DNA (nature)?

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Epigenetics

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What are the two types of Aphasia?

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1) expressive
2) comprehensive

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14
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Give me an example of expressive Aphasia

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Broca and his patient “tan”

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What is the experimental school of thought by Wilhelm Wundt?

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Structuralism

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What is the experimental school of thoughts by William James?

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Funtionalism

17
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What is the name of the concept where someone is asked to analyze their own thoughts?

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Introspection

18
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Who is the founder of psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

19
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What mental illness was studied with psychoanalytic theories?

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Hysteria

20
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What is hysteria

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Unconfronted trauma resulting in a loss of function and physical symptoms

21
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What is the image associated with psychoanalytic theory?

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The iceberg of awareness

22
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What are the three parts of the iceberg if awareness?

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1) ID=instincts
2) Ego=reality/reason
3) Super-Ego=morals

23
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Who is the founder of behaviourism?

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John B. watson

24
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Who did John B. Watson experiment on?

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His own child, Little Albert and the white rat

25
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Is the experimentation with Pavlov’s dog a classical or operant conditioning?

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Classical conditioning

26
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What is the concept of operant conditioning?

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Letting the subject of experimentation work for a specific result

27
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What idea emerges that goes against psychoanalysis and behaviourism?

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Humanism

28
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Who are Carl Rogers and Charles Maslow?

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The founders of humanism

29
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What philosophical idea emphasizes on the idea of self actualization?

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Humanism

30
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What revolution brings back the study of the mind?

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Cognitive revolution

31
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Why did the cognitive revolution happen (2)?

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1) people are not lab rats
2) behaviourism could not explain complex behaviour

32
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Which country is Gestalt psychology from?

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Germany

33
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What is the difference between cognitive psychology and neuroscience?

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Psycho studies mental processes while neuroscience studies the biological factors

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