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Introduction and History of Psychology Flashcards

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Psychology

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Pseudopsychology

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Erroneous assertions or practices set forth as being scientific psychology

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empirical approach

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A study conducted via careful observations and scientifically based research

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Experimental psychologists

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Psychologists who do research on basic psychological processes- as contrasted with applied psychologists; also called research psychologists

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Confirmation bias

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The tendency to attend to evidence that complements and confirms our beliefs or expectations, while ignoring evidence that does not

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Applied psychologists

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Psychologists who use the knowledge developed by experimental psychologists to solve human problems

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Teachers of psychology

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Psychologists whose primary job is teaching, typically in high schools, colleges, and universities

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Structuralism

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A historical school of psychology devoted to uncovering the basic structures that make up the mind and thought. Structuralists sought the “elements” of conscious experience

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Psychiatry

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A medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders

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What are psychology’s historical roots?

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Modern psychology developed from several conflicting traditions, including structuralism, functionalism, Gestalt psychology, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis.

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Gestalt psychology

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A historical school of psychology that sought to understand how the brain works by studying perception and perceptual learning. Gestalt psychologists believed that percepts consist of meaningful wholes (in German, Gestalts).

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Introspection

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The process of reporting on one’s own mental experiences

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Functionalism

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A historical school of psychology that believed mental processes could best be understood in terms of their adaptive purpose and function

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What is psychology– and what is it NOT?

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Psychology is a broad field with many specialities, but fundamentally, psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

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Behaviorism

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A historical school (as well as a modern perspective) that has sought to make psychology and objective science focused only on behavior- to the exclusion of mental processes

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Psychoanalysis

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An approach to psychology based on Sigmund Freud’s assertions, which emphasize unconscious processes. The term is used to refer broadly both to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and to his psychoanalytic treatment method.

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What are the perspectives psychologists use today?

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Nine main perspectives characterize modern psychology: the biological, developmental, cognitive, psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, sociocultural, evolutionary/sociobiological, and trait views.

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Biological view

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The psychological perspective that searches for the causes of behavior in the functioning of genes, the brain and nervous system, and the endocrine (hormone) system

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Neuroscience

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The field devoted to understanding how the brain creates thoughts, feelings, motives, consciousness, memories, and other mental processes

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Evolutionary psychology

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A relatively new specialty in psychology that sees behavior and mental processes in terms of their genetic adaptations for survival and reproduction

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Developmental view

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The psychological perspective emphasizing changes that occur across the lifespan

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Cognitive view

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The psychological perspective emphasizing mental processes, such as learning, memory, perception, and thinking, as forms of information processing

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Cognitions

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Mental processes, such as thinking, memory, sensation, and perception

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Cognitive neuroscience

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An interdisciplinary field emphasizing brain activity as information processing; involves cognitive psychology, neurology, biology, computer science, linguistics, and specialists from other fields who are interested in the connection between mental processes and the brain

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Biological view

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The psychological perspective that searches for the causes of behavior in the functioning of genes, the brain and nervous system, and the endocrine (hormone) system

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Neuroscience

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The field devoted to understanding how the brain creates thoughts, feelings, motives, consciousness, memories, and other mental processes

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Evolutionary psychology

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A relatively new specialty in psychology that sees behavior and mental processes in terms of their genetic adaptations for survival and reproduction

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Developmental view

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The psychological perspective emphasizing changes that occur across the lifespan

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Cognitive view

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The psychological perspective emphasizing mental processes, such as learning, memory, perception, and thinking, as forms of information processing

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Cognitions

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Mental processes, such as thinking, memory, sensation, and perception

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Cognitive neuroscience

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An interdisciplinary field emphasizing brain activity as information processing; involves cognitive psychology, neurology, biology, computer science, linguistics, and specialists from other fields who are interested in the connection between mental processes and the brain

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Clinical view

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The psychological perspective emphasizing mental health and mental illness. Psychodynamic and humanistic psychology are variations on the clinical view.

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Psychodynamic psychology

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A clinical viewpoint emphasizing the understanding of mental disorders in terms of unconscious needs, desires, memories, and conflicts

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Humanistic psychology

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A clinical viewpoint emphasizing human ability, growth, potential, and free will

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Behavioral view

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A psychological perspective that finds the source of our actions in environmental stimuli, rather than in inner mental processes

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Sociocultural view

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A psychological perspective emphasizing the importance of social interaction, social learning, and a cultural perspective

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Culture

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A complex blend of language, beliefs, customs, values, and traditions developed by a group of people and shared with others in the same environment

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Evolutionary/sociobiological view

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A psychological perspective emphasizing behavior as determined by natural selection

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Trait view

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A psychological perspective that views behavior and personality as the products of enduring psychological characteristics

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Rene Descartes

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1596-1650
I think, therefore I am…
-mind and body = interactive machines
-brain = location for mental functioning
-human minds
•innate ideas (God)
•derived ideas (experience/reflection)

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Charles Darwin

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1809-1882
Theory of natural selection (On the Origin of Species, 1859)
started evolutionary perspective
suggested biological kinship between humans and animals (discoveries about animals can be applied to humans)

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Edward B. Titchener

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1867-1927
Student of Wundt; Cornell University
-founded structuralism
•precursor to biological perspective

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Max Wertheimer

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1880-1943
Founded Gestalt psychology
-"the whole is greater than the sum of its parts"
-perception, learning, thinking 
-precursor to cognitive psychology
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G. Stanley Hall

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1844-1924

  • Student of William James, pioneered study of child development
  • first psychological laboratory in US @ John Hopkins University, 1883
  • Founded American Journal of Psychology, 1887
  • First president of APA, 1892
  • Said academic work would ruin a woman’s health
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William James

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1842-1910
Published The Principles of Psychology, 1890 (first psych textbook)
-Founded functionalism
•precursor to cognitive perspective

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Ivan Pavlov

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1849-1936
Did conditioning experiments with dogs and bell
Influenced behaviorism

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Sigmund Freud

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1856-1939

  • Interpretation of Dreams, 1900
  • Founded psychoanalytic theory
  • Discovered unconscious mind
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Carl Rogers

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1902-1987

Humanist

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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1863-1930

  • Studied with William James
  • denied doctorate by Harvard
  • became first woman president of APA, 1905
  • Founded psychology department at Wellesley College
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Francis Cecil Sumner

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1895-1954
-first African-American to receive PhD in psychology
-established psychology department @ Howard University
-work with African-American girls and self-image (dolls)
•helped with desegregation

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B. F. Skinner

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1904-1990
-Walden II (community run by behaviorist principles)
-Behaviorist • reinforcement
•founded operant conditioning theory

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Dorothea Dix

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Reformed treatment of the mentally ill

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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1871-1939

  • First woman to earn PhD in psychology (Cornell, 1894)
  • studied under Titchener
  • experimental work with animal behavior, motor theory development
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John B. Watson

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1878-1958
-leader of behaviorism, “Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It”, 1913
•observable behavior
-environment = determining factor
-inherited traits, instincts don’t matter
-little Albert study

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Jean Piaget

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1896-1980

Cognitive development theory

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Wilhelm Wundt

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1832-1920
First psychological laboratory in apartment near University of Leipzig
-introspection, psychophysical measurements, reaction time
-analyzed elements of consciousness and mental processes (language, thought) through study of culture
•influenced structuralism

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Who is considered the father of psychology?

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Wilhelm Wundt

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When, where, and by whom was the first US psychological laboratory established?

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1883
John Hopkins University
G. Stanley Hall

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Who was the first president of the American Psychological Association?

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G. Stanley Hall

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Who was the first woman to receive a PhD in psychology?

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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Who was the first African-American to get a PhD in psychology?

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Francis Cecil Sumner

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Who was the first woman president of the American Psychological Association?

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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When, where, and by whom was the first psychology laboratory established?

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1879
Leipzig, Germany
Wilhelm Wundt

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