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Lesson 1 NATURE OF PSYCHOLOGY Flashcards

1
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Psychology comes from two greek work “pysche” means?

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Mind

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2
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“Logos” means?

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Study

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3
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Father of Modern Philosophy

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Rene Descartes

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4
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It is the belief that everything in surroundings is inhabited by supernatural beings

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Animism

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5
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Who believed that human awareness was a continuation of pre-existing consciousness, attested that the soul govern behaviour

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Plato

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A philosopher based his study on mental life of man through observation, experience and memory

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Aristotle

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7
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Making him the first American Psychologist

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William James

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8
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It is the study of human behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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9
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Cognitive Psychology was expounded by?

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Jean Piaget

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10
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Psychology deals with?

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Observable and unobservable behaviors

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11
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The year when Psychology started in Philippines

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1910

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12
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Who was the first to teach psychology in University of the Philippines?

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Dr. Henry Townsend

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13
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Holistic or Whole approach

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Gestalt Psychology

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Deals with unconscious motives and irrational forces embedded within the psyche that is thought to influence behavior

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Psychoanalysis

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Five goals of Psychology

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• to describe behavior
• to understand behavior
• to predict behavior
• to control behavior
• to improve behavior

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16
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Based on the idea that concern of psychology is to analyze consciousness into basic unit of experience

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Structuralism

17
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Structuralism was expounded by?

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Edward Bradford Titchener

18
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Concerned with the utility of how conscious processes function in the adjustment of man to his environment

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Functionalism

19
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Functionalism was established by?

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William James

20
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Who believed that psychology should focus on true-to-life eveyday experience

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William James

21
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Gestalt is a german word that is simply translated into?

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Unified form or Overall shape (configuration)

22
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This school of psychology was founded by Sigmund Freud

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Psychodynamic

23
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Who established Gestalt Psychology?

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Max Wertheimer

24
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Who established behaviorism

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John Watson

25
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Grandfathers of Psychology

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Gustav Theodore Fechner and Harman Von Helmholtz

26
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Father of modern Psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

27
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An anatomist and physiologist began his work that results in the development of the method of measuring the magnitude of sensation particularly the sense of touch

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Enrst Weber

28
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Open the first psychological laboratory in Leipzig German.

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Welhelm Wundt

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