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Disciples who contributed to Development of Psychology

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Philosophy, Medicine, Physics, Biology

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Which philosopher believed the mind was nonphysical but present at birth?

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Rene Descartes

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What is Cartesian Dualism?

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The body and mind interact to create both movement and thoughts.

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What is Nativism?

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The mind is nonphysical and present at birth

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What is Tabula Rasa?

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Mind is a blank slate

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What is Empiricism?

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The belief mind is developed through interaction with the environment

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Who is responsible for the ideas of Tabula Rasa and Empiricism?

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John Locke

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Who is responsible for the ideas of Cartesian Dualism and Nativism?

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Rene Descartes

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What is a neuron?

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Brain Cell

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What is a neurotransmitter?

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A chemical that allows communication in the nervous system

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What did Medicine contribute to Psychology?

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Studying the structure of the nervous system, identifying, and naming cells, and understanding how neurotransmitters take part in neural communication.

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What did Physics contribute to Psychology?

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Helped identify the relationship between environment and mind

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What is environment?

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The physical world outside of the body

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What is stimulus?

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A particular part of the environment

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What year did Psychology emerge?

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1879

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What is Nature-Nurture?

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Nature is what a person inherits since birth and Nurture consists of the environment a person grows up in

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What are some examples of stimulus(stimuli)?

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Odors, people, light, sounds, temperature

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Who is responsible for the emergence of psychology?

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Wilhelm Wundt

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What’s Introspection?

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Presenting a physical stimulus to a participant to which they had to verbally communicate their immediate thoughts and the researcher would record their reaction

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Who are two famous Structuralists?

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Wundt and Titchener

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What is stream of consciousness?

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Consciousness is always changing

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What’s functionalism?

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Study of mental operations of the mind their purpose

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Famous functionalist

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William James

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What’s structuralism?

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Psychology should study the mental elements of consciousness and how they combine

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Mental Elements

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Parts/components of conscious experience

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Mental Operations

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Actions/Processes of the mind

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What did Sigmund Freud contribute?

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The beliefs of conscious and unconscious parts of the mind

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Conscious

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Portion of the mind we are aware of including ideas, feelings and sensations

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Unconscious

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Portion of the mind we are unaware of but influences our thoughts and behavior

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Who proposed to idea of Behaviorism?

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John Watson

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Behavior

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A reaction which can be observed and measured

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What’s Behaviorism?

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Psychology should study the relationship between the environment and behavior

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Psychology Model

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Environment, Mind, Behavior, Brain/Body and their connections

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Descriptive Hypotheses

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A hypothesis designed to describe what people do in a particular situation

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Predictive Hypotheses

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A hypothesis with the goal to predict a relationship between people’s behaviors

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Explanatory Hypotheses

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A hypothesis’ goal to propose a cause and effect relationship between the environment and people’s behavior

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Three types of Hypotheses

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Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory

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Research Design for Predictive Hypotheses

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Population, Sample, Random Sampling, Representative Sample, Survey, Dependent Variable

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Research Design for Descriptive Hypotheses

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Population, Sample, Representative Sample, Naturalistic Observation or Case Study, Dependent Variable

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Research Design for Explanatory Hypotheses

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Population, Random Sampling, Sample, Representative Sample, Experiment, Independent Variable, Random Assignment, Control Group, Experimental Group, Dependent Variable

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