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Psychology

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The scientific study of behavior and mental process

Must have 1 of these:

1) Natural Observation
2) Survey
3) Case Study
4) Correlation Study
5) Experimental Research -> most effective

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Behaviorist

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Psychologists that study only things they can see

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Cognitave

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Thinking

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Rods

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part of the eye that carries black and white colors to the brain
in the outer parts of the eye

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Cones

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part of the eye that carries color to the brain
in the inner parts of eye

2 types:

1) Red Green
2) Blue Yellow

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After Image Effect

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  • Brain creates a new color by using opponent colors
  • a mistake
  • cones or rods burn out so eye produces the opposite color
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Opponent processes of the Human Body

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If one thing happens in extreme (in the body), shortly after the opposite happens

e. g. -drinking too much alcohol then hang over
- sugar rush then crashing

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Homeostasis

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body wants to balance

opponent process of the human body

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Trephing

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(2000 BCE)
Putting holes into people’s heads

used for draining out tumors

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Thinking about the mind - Greeks

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(350 BCE)

Plato - Nature, mind continues after death
Aristotle - Nurture, mind dies with body
Socrates - Introspection

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Introspection

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You think about your own body

guessing

(350 BCE) - Socrates

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Phrenology

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(1600)
Study bumps on heads to predict occupation
all wrong

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John Locke

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(1700’s)

Mind is blank at birth - Nurture
Empiricism

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Empiricism

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To study the mind, record observations

keep data

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Wilhem Wundt

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(1879)

Father of Psychology
Studied reaction time
Psycho/Physics

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Psycho/Physics

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Dropping a ball from a ladder and timing how long it takes for people to react to the ball hitting the ground

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Edward Titchner

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(Early 1900’s)

  • Teacher at Cornell
  • Structuralism
  • Task of psychology is to identify parts of the brain you’re using
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Structuralism

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parts of the body do different things

use introspection

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William James

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(Early 1900’s)

Teacher at Harvard
Functionalism

wrote Principles of Psychology - still used today

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Functionalism

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outside world controls body
still around today
turns into Behaviorism

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Stanly Hall

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(Early 1900’s)

Started A.P.A - American Psychological Association

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Mary Whiton Calkins

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(1905)

1st Female president of A.P.A

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John B. Watson and BF Skinner

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Behaviorism

used rewards and punishments to condition people

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Ken Clark

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(1954)

Doll Study

 - took black and white dolls around US and talked to     children
 - asked questions about which doll was better
      - subjects always picked the white doll
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Freud

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(1960)

Psychoanalytic Theory

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Psychoanalytic Theory/Psychodynamic Theory

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unconscious controls you

unconscious - what you can access in your mind

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Neuroscience

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blood and body chemistry drive you to be the way you are

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Evolutionary

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You are like your ancestors because it worked for them

survival of the fittest

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Behavior Genetics

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Genes program you

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Psychodynamics

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unconscious causes it

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Behaviorial

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Environment causes it

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*Cognitive

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You do things because you thought about it

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Social Cultural

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you act a certain way because of your culture

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Stability vs Change

Continuity) vs (Discontinuity

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personality doesn’t change throughout life

change personality changes one or more times

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Human rationality vs Human irrationality

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Homosapian - wise human

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Nature vs Nurture

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Born the way you are or taught to act a certain way

ongoing debate

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