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History & Perspectives Flashcards

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1
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Psychology is the study of ____ and ____

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Behavior and mental processes

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Official titles for Nature vs Nurture

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Nativist vs Empiricist

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How would you empirically study gravity

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Drop an object to see if it falls

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Father of psychology

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William Wundt

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What is introspection

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Recognizing self emotions and mental processes

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Established first American laboratory

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G Stanley Hall

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Published first American psychology journal

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G Stanley Hall

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Had a heavy hand in the APA

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G Stanley Hall

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How would a structuralist study consciousness

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Studying the structure of the brain and its effects

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How would a functionalist study consciousness

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Why people do/ have things

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Major contribution of William James

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Wrote a psychology textbook

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First female psychologist

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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Summarize Gestalt psychology

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Laws of Simplicity/Grouping

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Freud is responsible for what perspective

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Psychoanalysis/ Psychodynamic

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Who’s main focus was sex and aggression

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Freud

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Father of behaviorism

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John B Watson

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What is the major focus of behaviorism

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All behaviors, especially ones learned

18
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Memory, critical thinking, problem solving

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Cognition

19
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Free will and self actualization

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Humanism

20
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Who and when was evolutionary psychology established

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Charles Darwin- the late 1980’s

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What was the premise of evolutionary psychology

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Behavior patterns and survival

22
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What is the difference between school and education psychology

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School psych promotes school and works with individuals whereas educational psych tests theories on education as a whole

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Psychology that works in diagnosing, evaluating, and treating

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Clinical psychology

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Psychology that handles lower level psychological issues

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Counseling psychologists

25
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Where would an Industrial Organizational psychologist work

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Business/ Human resources

26
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Criminal justice; suspects mentality, cases

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Forensic psychology

27
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These psychologists create personality and aptitude tests

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Psychometric psychologists

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True or False: a psychiatrist cannot prescribe whereas a psychologist can

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False

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