Intro To Psych In Historical Context

Question 1

Empiricism

Answer 1

All ideas come from 5 senses and we are not born with ideas

Question 2

Who found emiricism?

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John locke and Thomas reid

Question 3

Why empiricism is important

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Statement in psychology (thoughts, feelings, actions)
Claim about epistemology (what knowledge is and how to require it)

Question 4

What is empiricism in rhe context of epistemology

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We weed go itno the world and understand it

Question 5

Physiology

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Study if organ systems and what they do

Question 6

Hermann von helmholtz

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First to measure speed of newrve impulse and did a lot with sensory physiology

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Psychophysics

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Study of relationship between physicsl properties of a stimulus snd psychologicsl effects it evokes

Question 8

Wilhelm Wundt

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Was the firet psychologist and ran the first research lab. He tried to institutionalize psychology

Question 9

Functionalism

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Philosophy of mind

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G stanley hall

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Did the study of adolescents and popularized the term.

Question 11

James mckeen cattell

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Did the study if individual experiences and tried to measure intelligence. He thought that intelligence was genetic

Question 12

Behaviourism

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Undertandinf behaviours of humans and other animals

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John watson

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Coined the term behavourism. Thought that psycologists should stop studying consciousness since it cant be observed like behaviours

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Frederic bartlett

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He was interested in memory and looked at obervsnle behaviour

Question 15

Who made rhe first intelligence test?

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Alfred binet

Question 16

Six perspectives

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Psychodynamic, physiological, behavioural, cognitive, social cultural, evolutionary

Question 17

Psychodynamic

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Unconscious process and unresolved past conflicts as influences on behaviour

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Physiological perspective

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Idea of our mind is peoduct of out activities

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Behavioural perspective

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Focus on learning and what triggers certain behaviour

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Neural impulse

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Electro chemical signal that enables neurons to communicate

Question 21

Introspection

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Method of focusing on internal processes

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Consciousness

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Awareness of ourselves and our environment

Question 23

Structuralism

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School of americal psychology that sought to describe the elements of conscious experience

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Individual differences

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Ways in which people differ in terms of their behaviour, emotions, cognition, and development

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Eugenics

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Practice of selective breeding to promote desired traits

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Gestalt psychology

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Attempt to study unity of experience

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Cognitive psychology

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Study of mentsl processes

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Flashbulb memory

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Highly detailed and vivid memory of an emotionally significant event

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Tip of the tongue phenomenon

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Inability to pull a word from memory even though there is the sensation that the word is available

Question 30

Scientist practitioner model

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Model of training of professional psychologists thst emphasizes the development iv both research and clinical skills

Question 31

Scholar practitioner model

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Model of training of professional psychologists thst emphasizes clinical practice