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Behavior

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Natural process subject to natural law

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Mind

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Sensations, memories, motives, emotions, thoughts,and other subjective phenomena particular to an individual

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Dualism

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Two parts, body and spirit

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Psychology

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Study of behavior

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Brain

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Command center of the central nervous system

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Rene Descartes

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Mind and body are separable

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John Locke

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Created in empiricism,

We have must be learned nothing is innate

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Empiricism

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Acquisition of truth through observations and experiences

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Thomas Hobbes

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Created materialism which greatly influenced behaviorism

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Materialism

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Believes that only things that exist or matter and energy

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Charles Darwin

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Proposed natural selection which turned into the evolutionary theory

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Founder of the science of psychology, Open first laboratory and conducted first experiment

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Edward Titchener

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One of the first to bring psychology to the US, created structuralism and introspection

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Structuralism

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Looking for patterns in thought

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Introspection

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Reflection upon oneself

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William James

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Opposed to structuralist approach, created functionalism

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Functionalism

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How the mind fulfills its purpose

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The eight approaches

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Biological, behavioral genetics, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, psychoanalytic, sociocultural, evolutionary

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The biological approach

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The interaction between me and physiology

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Behavioral genetics approach

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Emphasized that behaviors are attribute to particular, genetically based physiological characteristics

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Behavioral approach

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Study of observable behavior, involves classical conditioning behavior modification and influenced by John Watson BF Skinner and Ivan Pavlov

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Ivan Pavlov

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The salivating dog, created classical conditioning

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John Watson

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Applied classical conditioning to humans in that little Albert experiment, problem with the experiment is he did not counter condition Albert

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BF Skinner

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A behaviorist who developed the Skinner box, such a cleanse to associate behavior with environmental welcome

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Behavior modification

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Set of techniques that physiological problems which are considered to be the product of weird habits

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Cognitive approach

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To Understand people’s behavior, we need to understand how they think

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Humanistic approach

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Studies the rules of consciousness, free will, aims for a holistic view emphasizing personal values and goals involves Abraham Maslow self-actualization call Rogers and unconditional positive regard

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Abraham Maslow

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Created self actualization

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Self actualization

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Excepting yourself and your nature

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Carl Rogers

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Created unconditional positive regard

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Unconditional positive regard

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The need for a positive self-concept

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Psychoanalytic approach

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Involves Sigmund Freud, deals with anything of the conscious and unconscious mind believes in repressed memories

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Conscious mind

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Mental state of awareness that we have ready access to

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Unconscious mind

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Mental processes that we do not normally have exes to but are yet influenced by in some way

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Repressed

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Buried in the unconscious

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Sociocultural approach

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Believes that the environment a person lives in influences how they behave

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Evolutionary approach

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Theories of Darwin, explains how adaptive our behaviors is to survival

Psychology Vocab (33 decks)

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