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A general framework for scientific study; smaller aspects can be tested.

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Theory

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Everything that the mind is capable of doing

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Mental processes

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What does thinking critically means?

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Being objective and not letting the emotions and ideas decide.

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Psychologists who study the origin, cause or results of certain behaviors.

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Research Psychologist

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Psychologists who make direct use of the findings of research psychologists, they deal directly with clients.

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Applied Psychologist

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What is the goal of psychology?

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Understaning the human being.

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In the 1800s, influenced psychology through his theory of evolution,

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Charles Darwin

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The process of looking into yourself and describing what is there.

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Introspection

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The process of making your own system by borrowing from two or more other systems.

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Eclecticism

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Who was the first female president of the APA?

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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Who is credited with coming up with structuralism

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Edward Titchener

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This person father of psychology in the United States taught the first psychology class at Harvard in 1875

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William James

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The following is not the goals of psychology

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Define

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This psychologist discovered classical conditioning by conducting an experiment with dogs, thus proposed that behaviors could be learned via conditioned associations

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Ivan Pavlov

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Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that they

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are medical doctors licensed to prescribe medication.

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This person believed that intelligence is based on genetics and is passed on by parents to their children.

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Francis Gaulton

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Who was the first woman to earn her PhD in psychology?

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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Philosopher that proposed that a link existed between mind and body and that they influence each other to create a person’s experiences.

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Rene Descartes

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A famous psychologist who studied how people function and adapt to their environment.

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William James

20
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Sexual and aggressive impulses control behavior.

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Pysychoanalysis

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Behavior viewed as a product of various internal sentences, or thoughts.

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Cognitive Psychology

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Behavior viewed as a product of learned responses.

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Behaviorism