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Socrates believed..

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Mind is SEPERATE. From the body

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What is psychology

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The science of behavior and mental process

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Plato believed

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Mind and body are SEPERATE.

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Aristotle

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Mind and body are not separate knowledge is pre existing

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Rene Descartes

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Father of modern philosophy, abnormal behavior= brain abnormalities, mind is separable.

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Francis bacon

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Introduced scientific method

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John Locke

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Humans are born as a blank slate and learn who we are from experience, he formed modern empiricism

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Empiricism

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View that knowledge comes from experiences via the senses

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Opened 1st lab in Leipzig Germany

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Edward titchener

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Homies with Wilhelm Wundt brought structuralism to us cornell university

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An early school of psychology that used interception to explore the element structure of the human mind.

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Structuralism

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Interception

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Self reflection

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Functionalism

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A school of psychology that focused on how mental behavior process function

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William James

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One of the first psychologists FUNCTIONALISM

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Mary calkins

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Student of James first female American psychologist association president.

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Margaret Washburn

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1st woman to get a PhD in psych

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Humanistic psychology

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Looked at study of healthy people

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Nature nurture issue

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Debate between genes and experiences relate to behavior

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Natural selection

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Charles Darwin. Survival of the fittest

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Levels of analysis

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Biological psychological sociocultural

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Evolutionary perspective

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Interest in the role a psychological structure has in how something adapts.

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Behavior genetics perspective

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

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Neuroscience perspective

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Looking for causes of abnormal behavior primarily inside the individual

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Psychodynamic perspective

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Systemized study and theory of the psychological forces that underline human behavior conscious and unconscious

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Behavioral perspective

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Cognitive perspective

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How we encode process store and receive info

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Social cultural perspective

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How behavior and thinking vary across situations and culture

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Basic research

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Pure science that aims to increase scientific knowledge base

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Biological psychologists

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Exploring the links between brain and mind

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Developmental psychologists

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Studying our abilities from womb to tomb

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Cognitive psychologists

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Experimenting with how we perceive think and solve problems.

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Personality psychologists

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Investigating our persistent traits

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Social psychologists

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Exploring how we view and affect each other

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Applied research

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Scientific study that aims to solves practical problems

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Counseling-
Clinical-
Psychiatric-

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  • Branch of psych that assists people w living problems (school work and marriage)
  • branch of psych that studies assesses and treats people w psychological disorders.
  • branch of medicine dealing w psychological disorders

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