History of psychology

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Psychology

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The study of mental processes and behaviour

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Angles of investigation into psychology

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Measuring, scientific inference, and sensation

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How is psychology a science

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Empirically investigating questions using experiments, the scientific method and theories

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Measuring

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Using physics and numbers to get accurate measurements and make observations

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Scientific inference

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using the scientific method to create evidence based theories

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Sensation

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how people experience their reality

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Main goals of psychology

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Describe, explain, predict, and control

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Describe

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Specific descriptions of mental processes and behavior in scientific terms

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Explain

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Why is something happening

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Predict

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to be able to say when somthing will happen

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Control

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ablility to change or control a behaviour or mental process

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Socio-cultural

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The influence that society and culture has on our behaviour. A field of study focuing on how everything around us changes us and how we change it.

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Wilhelm Wundt

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A structuralist and a founder of psychology.

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Structuralism

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The investigation into the sensory experience using a technique called introspection.

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Introspection

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The major flaw of structuralism, this technique involves looking inward to break down the basic parts of mental processes. But it is unreliable because observations are different from person to person

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Functionalism

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Function of mental processes and why the ability evolved. The investigation into how different people view the same thing differently.

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William James

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wrote principals of psychology to shift views to functionalism from structuralism

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The content

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Methods of psychology that explore the cognitive or content of the mind.

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Bartett and Piaget

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Researched the cognitive process of learning

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Frameworks

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Ways of viewing humans and how we study them.

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Psychoanalysis

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The study into the unconscious mind and it’s influence

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Emotions according to psychoanalysis

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Dives, feelings, and affect. Emotions are a combination of learned physical and sensory responses.

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Psychoanalytic theory

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The theory that describes the mind like an iceburg with us not being aware of most of our decisions.

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Behaviouralism

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The study of the observable response to a observable stimulus.

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Ivan Pavlov

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Behaviouralist who studied conditionaling

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Edward Thorndike

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Behaviouralist who started using animals as models for human behaviour.

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John Watson

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Pionner of behaviouralism

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B.F. Skinner

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Behaviouralist who studied reinforcement

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Albert Brandura

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Behaviouralist who studied role models

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Humanistic

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The study of the desire to self-improve

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Social-Cultural by Lewis

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The study into how society interactions affect an individual.