Prelim Lesson 1

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It is an educational Psychologist

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John Watson

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Was the 1st Major school of thought

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Structuralism

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study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think about information

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Cognitive Psychology

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might study how people perceive various shapes, why they remember some facts but forget others, or how they learn language.

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Cognitive Psychologist

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A movement that took place in response to behaviorism.

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Cognitive Revolution (early 1950s)

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• belief that much of human behavior can be understood in terms of how people think.
• a synthesis of earlier form of analysis, such as behaviorism or Gestaltism.

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Cognitivism

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Study animal brains and human brains, using postmortem studies and various psychobiological measures or Imaging techniques

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Psychobiological Research

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THREE METHODS

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Self report
Case studies
Naturalistic observation

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an individual’s own account of cognitive processes.

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Self report

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in-depth studies of individuals.

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Case studies

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detailed studies of cognitive performance in everyday situations and non laboratory contexts

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Naturalistic Observation

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First major school of thought in psychology.

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Structuralism

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• suggested that psychologists shouldfocus on the processes of thought
  rather than on its content.
• seeks to understandwhat people do and why they do it
• study of emotions.

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Functionalism

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held that the key to understanding the human mind and behavior was to study the processes of how and why the mind works as it does.

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Functionalist

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can alert us to danger and trigger our body’s fight or flight response, protecting us from harm.

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Fear

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• Integrative Synthesis

-like functionalism, was more of an influential way of thinking than a rigid school of psychology.

-examines how elements of the mind, like events or ideas, can become associated with one anotherin the mind to result in a form of learning.

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Associationism

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EXAMPLE OF ASSOCIATIONISM

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• similarity
• contrast

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associating things that show polarities, such as hot/cold, light/dark, day/night.

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Contrast

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• AnExtreme Version of Associationism
• focuses only on the relation between observable behavior and environmental events or stimuli.

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Behaviorism

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• father of ‘radical behaviorism’.
• believed thatpsychologists should concentrate only on the study of observable behavior

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John Watson

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believed that virtually, all forms of human behavior, not just learning, could be explained bybehavior emitted inreaction to the environment.

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B.F. Skinner

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• TheWhole is More than the Sum of Its Parts
• webest understand psychological phenomena when we view them as organized, structured wholes.

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Gestalt Psychology

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Understand the process of the mind

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Functionalism

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Is an example of associationism which associate things similar

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Similarity

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Focuses only on the relation between observable behavior and environment

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Behaviorism

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States that we understand psychological phenomena when we view them as organized, structured, whole

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Gestalt Psychology

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Credited to Jean Piaget

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Cognitive theory

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Completing a jigzaw puzzle is an example of?

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Gestalt Psychology

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Seeks to understan what people do and why they do it

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Functionalism

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Argue that emotions play a significant role in human adaptation to the environment

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Functionalist

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Triggering our fight or flight response to protect us from fear is an example of?

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Functionalism

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Examines how elements of the mind, like events or ideas, can become associated with one another in the mind to result in a form of learning

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Associationism

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Extreme version of associationism

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Behaviorism

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Practical applications of cognitive psychology is to provide help coping with?

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Memory disorder