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Define psychology

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The scientific study of the mind and body

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Behavior

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Observable actions

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Who was HM (Henry Molisn)

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Had his hypocampus taken out and he could not form new memories, he had anterograde amnesia

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Anterograde amnesia

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Unable to form new memories

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Retrograde amnesia

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Can’t remember previous things but can form new memories

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Plato came up with

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Nativism

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Nativism

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The idea that we are born with a certain amount of knowledge

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Aristotle came up with

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Tabula rasa (blank slate)
Empiricism

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Empiricism

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All knowledge that we gain comes through experiences

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Franz Joseph Gall came up with…

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Phrenology

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Phrenology

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the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities

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Who was Paul Broca

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He had significant damage to Brockas area and could not speak very well

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What does Broca’s area do

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Allows speech

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What did Herman von Helmholtz do

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studied physiology, stimulus and reaction time

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What did Wilhelm Wundt do

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Founded the first psychological laboratory
Studied consciousness and structuralism

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What is structuralism

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focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components. Researchers tried to understand the basic elements of consciousness using a method known as introspection

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What is introspection

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The subjective observation of one’s own experience

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what did William James do

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applied scientific approach to psychology, use functionalism

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What is functionalism?

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all of our mental processes serves a function to help us survive

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Who was jean-marie Charcot and Pierre Janet?

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hysteria

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a temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions, ususally as a result of emotionally upsetting experiences (multiple conscious selves)

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who was Sigmund Freud?

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used psychoanalytic techniques such as psychoanalysis, came up with the unconscious

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unconscious

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the part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but which affects behavior and emotions

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psychoanalysis

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psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental conditions by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements

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Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers

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humanistic psychology , therapist and client are on equal footing

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John Waston

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Behaviorism

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behaviorism

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approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals

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Ivan Pavlov

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pavlov’s Dogs

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BF skinner

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animals learn by interacting with their environment (beavoirisit)
reinforcement

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reinforcement

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consequences of behavior will determine of we do the behavior again (no free will)

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Gestalt Psychology

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a psychological approach that emphasizes that we often perceive that whole rather that the sum of the parts

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cognitive psychology

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study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning

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sir frederic bartlett

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memory vs actual experiences

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advent of computers

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model for human mind

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Karl Lashley

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removed parts of rat brains, no one section of the brain was responsible for memory, the more brain taken out, the more memory loss

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John Garcia

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our ancestors learning histories influence our learning
evolutionary psychology

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evolutionary psychology

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explains mind and behavior in terms of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection

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Norman Triplett

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bikers rode faster than with others
oru behavior is influenced by the presence of others
social psychology

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social psychology

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how do we change when other people are around us

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cultural psychology

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the study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their members
absolutism vs relativism

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margaret mead

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cultural psychology

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