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Cartesian Dualism

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Rene Descartes “You are born with the contents of your mind”

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Mind & Body, Seperate & Interact

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Rene Descartes

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Nativism

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Rene Descartes

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We are born with the contents of our mind

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Rene Descartes

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Tabula Rasa

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John Locke

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Blank Slate

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John Locke - Empiricism

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Experiences…

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John Locke

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One’s mind is empty at birth

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John Locke - Empiricism

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Empiricism

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John Locke - Tabula Rasa

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Who believes “Interactions from the environment, coming through our senses, creates the contents and processes of our mind”?

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John Locke

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First Lab

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Father of Psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

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First Experiment

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Experimental Method: Introspection

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Structuralism

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Wilhelm Wundt and/or Edward Tritchner

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Who says “The goal of psychology is to determine the Basic Elements of mind and body and how they combine to create our everyday conscious experience”

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Wilhelm Wundt or Edward Titchner

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Student of Wundt

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Edward Titchner

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Structuralism

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Edward Titchner and/or Wilhelm Wundt

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The goal of psychology is to determine the Basic Elements of mind and body and how they combine to create our everyday conscious experience

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Edward Titchner or Wilhelm Wundt

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Who is not searching for the Basic Elements?

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William James - Scientific Method: Functionalism

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Stream of Conciousness

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William James - Functionalism

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The contents of our mind are constantly changing

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William James

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Who believes in Functionalism as a Scientific Method?

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William James

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“Functionalism determines what the mental operations are, how they work and what they do to allow us to survive” Who is likely to believe this statement?

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William James

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Who's methods used Behaviorism?
John B Watson
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Study: environment & behavior
John B Watson, Behaviorism
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The Scientific Method where you present an event, observe behavior. Who uses it and what is it called?
John B Watson - Behaviorism
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said "Can not study the concious mind"
John B Watson
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said "the goal of psychology is to determine the relationship between different environmental stimuli"
John B Watson
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Name the 3 scientific methods
Structuralism Functionalism Behaviorism
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Name the 4 disciplines of Psychology
Philosophy Biology Medicine Physics
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How do we define psychology today?
Psychology is the study of mind and behavior
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Who defined nature vs. nurture?
Francis Galton
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Names the 2 approaches to Psychology
Nativism - We are born with the contents of our mind Empiricism - You are born with nothing and your experiences coming through your senses make up the contents of your mind
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He believed our mind is like a stream, always flowing with thought
William James
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He is the Father of Psychology who developed the first Psych experiment
Wilhelm Wundt
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He believe the mind and body are seperate AND they interact
Rene Descartes
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He believed we should study Psych based on observations of environment and behaviors
John Watson
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He presented the idea of Tabula Rasa (or Blank Slate)
John Locke
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The opposite of Empiricism
Nativism
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The alternative to Structuralism
Functionalism
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The first -method- that came before all others.
Introspection
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The disciplines that came before (led into psychology)
What is Philosophy, Biology, Physics, and Medicine
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The 2 issues discussed (argued) in history's past.
Mind vs. Body and Nature vs. Nurture
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The description of Nativism
When we believe we are born with our mind, its contents and mental processes
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Mental processes developed because they were adaptive
Functionalism
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What Psychology should only study according to a behaviorist
The environment, behavior and the relationship between them
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What Psychologists should study according to a structuralist
Elements of the Mind
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What is the following approach called? Knowledge originates in experience; interactions with the environment
Empiricism
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The description of Nativism
We believe we are born with our mind, it's contents and mental processes
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According to Empiricism, knowledge originates through this.
Experience
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The person responsible for clarifying the definition of Nature vs. Nurture
Francis Galton
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A science rooted in observation
Behaviorism
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There are three basic elements of the mind
Sensations, ideas, and feelings.
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The relationship between two of our historians
Wundt and Tritchner. Wundt was the teacher and Tritchner was the student.
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The theorectical place where sensations, feelings, reasoning, thoughts and memories preside
The mind
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The mind and body are seperate entities that can interact and thus influence one another
Rene Descartes' Cartesian Dualism
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The mind is empty at birth
Tabula Rasa
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The ever changing mind
Stream of Consciousness
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A research method used to study psychology introduced by the structuralists.
Introspection
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What are the 3 categories of the basic elements of consciousness?
Sensation, ideas, and feelings.
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Describe Structuralism
focuses on attempting to understand human consciousness by analyzing its basic components. - basic elements
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Describe Functionalism
focuses on the mind as a functional tool that allows us to adapt to our environments. - adaptation
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Describe Behaviorism
focuses on behaviors being learned through interaction with the environment. - interaction
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Name and describe the scientific method Wundt and Tritchener proposed as a means to study Psychology.
Wundt and Tritchener used a structuralist experimental method called introspection to observe and report on individual sensory experiences and thoughts.
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Who was responsible for the emergence of psychology and what two "firsts" did he contribute?
Wilhelm Wundt was responsible for the emergence of psychology and he contributed the first psychology lab and the first psychological experiment.
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How do we define psychology today?
Psychology is the study of mind and behavior.
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The scientific approach equates experimental studies with (person's name) and the clinical approach with (person's name)
The scientific approach equates experimental studies with Wilhelm Wundt and the clinical approach with Sigmund Freud.
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_________ makes claims that are supposedly based on rigorous science and fact but are not supported by reliable verifiable scientific _______
Pseudoscience; evidence
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Define evidence.
facts and information indicating whether a belief is true
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Is it true that psychological truth is equivalent to common sense?
Psychological truth relies on scientific research and experimentation, while common sense is based on untested, shared beliefs about the world. Psychological sciences stems from scientific testing of hunches or intuition, but sometimes these studies reveal that our intuitions are wrong.
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Name the 4 academic disciplines from which psychology emerged.
Philosophy, biology, medicine, and physics.
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Describe Nature
Nature is rooted in biological factors; heredity.
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Describe Nurture
Nurture is the rooted in external factors; environmental influences like experiences and exposure.
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Name Descartes view of how mind and body function and describe the two elements of his idea.
Descartes view of how the mind and body function is called Cartesian Dualism. The two elements of his idea are that the mind and body are two separate entities and they interact.
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Who was responsible for the emergence of psychology and what two "firsts" did he contribute?
Wilhelm Wundt First Lab First Experiment

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