Prologue

Question 0

Plato

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Greece, Socrates student, thought mind and body were separate, knowledge is born with us

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Psychology

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Scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Socrates

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thought mind and body were separate, knowledge is born with us

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Aristotle

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logic and observation, soul and body were one, knowledge isnt preexisting but comes from experiences

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Descartes

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1595-1650, believed ideas were distinct from body, questioned how mind and body communicate, thought nerves were hollow and allowed brain fluid to flow

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Francis Bacon

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founder of modern science, from Britain, thinks brain searches for order and patterns, believed in superstitions

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John Locke

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British philosopher, mind is born a blank slate, tabula rosa

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Empiricism

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the view that knowledge originates in experience, science should rely on observation/ experiments

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Wilhelm Wundt

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created experimental machine, measured time between hearing and action, wanted to measure atoms of the mind, started first psychological lab in germany

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structuralism

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early form of psych that used introspection to explore structure of the mind

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Edward Titchener

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introduced structuralism and introspection

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introspection

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looking inward, reporting elements of experience, proved unreliable

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functionalism

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focused on mental and behavioral processes of a function and how they allow an organism to adapt, survive, and flourish

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william James

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considered functions of thoughts and feelings, tutored mary calkins, wrote principals of psych, an american

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Mary Calkins

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Harvard PHD, American psychological association

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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Wrote animal mind, second female president of APA, first PhD recognized but second person

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Humanistic psychology

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Perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people, personalized methods to study personality and foster personal growth

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Nature- nurture issue

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Controversy over contributions genes and experiences made to psychological traits and behaviors

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Natural selection

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Charles Darwin, inherited trait values that contribute to reproduction and survival will most likely be based on, nature selects the best traits

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Levels of analysis

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Different complementary views from biological to psychological to social culture for analyzing given phenomenon

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Sigmund freud

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Influenced self understanding about unconscious effecting behavior

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Evolutionary perspective

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How natural selection of 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 images

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Psychodynamic perspective

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How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts

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Behavioral perspective

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How we learn observable responses

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Cognitive perspective

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Hoe we encode processes, store, And retrieve information

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Social-cultural perspective

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How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures

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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 psychologists

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explore links between brain and mind

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developmental psychologists

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study our challenges and abilities from womb to tomb

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cognitive psychologists

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experiment with how we perceive think and solve problems

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personality psychologists

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investigate our persistent traits

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social psychologists

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explore how we view and affect one another

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counseling psychology

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branch that assists people with problems in living and achieving greater well being

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clinical psychology

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branch that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders

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psychiatry

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branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders, practiced by physicians who can provide medical treatment and psychological therapy