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Prologue 1-16 Flashcards

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Socrates

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The mind is separable from the body and continues after the body dies.
Knowledge is innate - born within us.

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Psychology

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Plato

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Socrates’ student.

Principles from logic.

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Aristotle

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The soul is NOT separable from the body.
Knowledge is NOT pre-existing, you learn.

Careful observations.

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Rene Descartes

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Father of modern philosophy.
Agreed with Socrates and Plato.
Studied animal spirits and nerves.
Abnormal behavior caused by abnormalities in the brain.

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Francis Bacon

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Scientific Method.
Father of modern science.
Drawing knowledge from natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing a hypothesis.

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John Locke

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At birth- the mind is a Blank Slate or White Paper.

Formed empiricism -

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Empiricism

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The view that knowledge comes from experience via the senses.

Science flourishes through observation and experimentation.

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Established the first psychology laboratory at the university of Leipzig, Germany.

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Structuralism

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An early school of psychology that used Introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind.

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Edward Titchener

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William Wundt’s student.

Introduced Structuralism to U.S. – Used introspection to search for the minds structural elements.

Opened first lab in U.S. , Cornell University.

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Introspection

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Looking In.

Studying Yourself.

Self - Reflective.

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Functionalism

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A school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organisms to adapt, survive and flourish.

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William James

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Mentored Calkins.
One of the first U.S. psychologists.
Developed Funtionalism.
Wrote “Principles of Psychology”

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Mary Calkins

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Became a pioneering memory researcher and first woman American Psychological Association President. (APA)

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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The first woman to receive a psychology P.h.D.

Synthesized animal behavior research in “the animal mind”

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Nature - Nurture Issue

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Controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make the development of psychological traits and behaviors.

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Natural Selection

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Those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations.

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Levels of Analysis

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The differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon.

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Evolutionary Perspective

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How the natural selections traits promotes the perpetuation of ones genes.

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Behavior Genetics Perspective

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How much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences.

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Neuroscience Perspective

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How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences.

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Basic Research

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Pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base.

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Applied Research

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Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems.

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Biological Scientists

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Looking at biological state of body and how it influences behavior.

(brain, genetics, etc.)

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Developmental Psychologists

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Human development across the life span.

Child development ➡️ Adolescence ➡️ Adulthood ➡️ Old Age

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Cognitive Psychologists

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Higher mental processes➡️memory, reasoning, info processing, language, problem solving, decision making and creativity.

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Personality Psychologist

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Describing and understanding individuals consistency in behavior, which represents their personality.

Factors that shape personality.

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Social Psychologist

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Interpersonal behavior and the role of social forces in governing behavior.

Attitude formation, attitude change, prejudice, conformity, attraction, aggression.

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Counseling Psychology

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Assisting people with problems in living.

School, work, marriage.

Achieving greater well being.

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Clinical Psychology

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Studies, assesses and treats people with psychological disorders.

(diagnosis, emotional problems)

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Psychiatry

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Medicine dealing with psychological disorders, practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (drugs) treatments as well as psychological therapy.

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