history and approaches

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psychology

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science of behavior and mental processes

Question 2

empiricism

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born with a “blank slate”

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structuralism

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a way to analyze the human brain and behavior

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introspection

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trained people to report how people felt about simple things. Unreliable

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functionalist

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explorations of down-to-earth emotions, memories, willpower,etc

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psychoanalysis

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therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating conscious and unconscious mind

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behaviorism

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the view that psychology should be objective science and study behavior without reference to mental processes

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cognitive-revolution

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supported ideas developed by earlier psychologists

Ex: how the mind retains memory

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nature vs. nurture

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controversy over relative contributions of biology and experience

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Person:

Socrates

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He believed the mind is separate from the body. Teacher to Plato

Question 11

Person:

Aristotle

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knowledge is not preexisting, grows from experiences

Question 12

Person:

John Lock

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Mind is a blank slate “tabula rasa”

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Person:

Charles Darwin

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evolution of the mind

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Person:

Wihelm Wundt

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Preformed first psych experiment

Question 15

Person:

William James

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made functionalism based off of Darwin. First psych book

Question 16

Person

Mary Whiton Calkins

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First woman accepted at Harvard for psy, didn’t accept degree

Question 17

Person

Margaret Floy

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First woman to accept degree

Question 18

Person

Sigmund Freud

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developed psychoanalysis. survived holocaust

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Person

B. F. Skinner and John Watson

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first behaviorists. Science should be obserbation

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Developmental Psychology

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the scientific study of physical, cognitive, and social change through the life span

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educational psychology

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the study of how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning

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experimental psychology

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the study of basic psychology processes, like learning, memory, cognition, etc

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clinical psychology

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the branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders

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counseling psychology

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a branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living and in achieving greater well-being

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personality psychology

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the study of an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

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psychometric psychology

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the scientific study of the measurements of human abilities, attitudes, and traits

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human factory psychology

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the study of how people and machines interact and the design of safe and easily used machines and environments

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industrial organizational psychology

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the application of psychology concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces

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social psychology

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the scientific study that aims to solve practical problems

Question 30

psychiatrist

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a mental practitioner