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Who was Plato?

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Student of Socrates, nature side of debate, mind is separable, knowledge is innate

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Define Psychology

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Scientific study of behavior and mental process

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Who is Socrates?

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Teacher of Plato, the mind is separable from the body, continues after the body dies, knowledge is innate, nature

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Who is Aristotle?

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Soul isn’t separable from mind, knowledge is observed, pre-existing, grows from experience stored in memory

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Who is Descartes?

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Mind is separable from body, spirit animals, nerves enable reflexes did dissections, father of modern philosophy, mind and body distinct and inseparable,

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Who is Francis Bacon

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Scientific method, observation and hypothesis, nurture side of debate

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Who was John Locke?

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Mind at birth is a blank slate “tabula rosa”, coined empiricism

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What is empiricism?

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Coined by Locke, view that knowledge originates due to experience via senses, sciences flourishes through observation and experimentation

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Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

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“Atoms of the mind”, did the 1st experiment, 1st laboratory, he tested balls and looked at roses

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What is structuralism?

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Early study of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the mind, Titchener coined

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Who was Edward Titchener?

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Coined Structuralism, student of Wundt,

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What is Introspection?

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Looking forward

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What is functionalism

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School of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function, how they enable the organisms to adapt, survive, and flourish, coined by William James

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William James

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Founder of Functionalism, he let Mary Calkins study (1st to let a girl study at Harvard) disliked structuralism, conscience serves a purpose

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Who was Mary Calkins?

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Graduate student of William James, earned a Ph.D, 1st APA, American psychologist association president

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Who was Margaret Floy Washburn?

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1st Ph.D at Harvard, the animal mind

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What is humanistic psychology?

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A perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people, used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of growth
Ex. Freud, Carl Rogers, and Abraham Moslow

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What is the Nature-Nurture Issue?

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Debate over if genes and experience make to development of psychology traits and behaviors

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What is natural selection?

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The best traits will be past on, Charles Darwin

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What is levels of analysis?

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Differing complementary views, from biological, to psychological, to social culture, for analyzing a phenomenon

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Stone Age?

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Trephining or chipping holes in he skull to let evil spirits out

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What is the evolutionary perspective?

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How the natural selection of traits promote the perpetuation of ones genes!

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What is behavior genetics perspective?

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How much our genes and environment influence our individual differences’

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What is the neuroscience perspective?

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

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What is the psychodynamic perspective?

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Hidden unconscience motives/desires

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What is the behavioral perspective?

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Observable behavior rather than the hidden mental

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What is the cognitive perspective?

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How the mind organizes and makes sense of information and experiences, studies all aspects of thinking, problem solving, memories, and language

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What is the social-cultural perspective?

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Studies how social surroundings and culture shape thinking and behavior

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What is basic research?

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Pure science used to increase the scientific knowledge base

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What is applied research?

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Scientific study aimed to solve practical problems

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Who is biological psychologists?

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They study kinks between the brain and the mind

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Who are developmental psychologists?

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Studying the changing abilities from womb to tomb

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Who are cognitive psychologists?

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Experiment sigh how we perceive, think, and solve problems

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Who are personality psychologists?

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Investigate out persistent traits

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Who are social psychologists?

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The explore how we view and affect one another

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Who are counseling psychologists?

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Assist people with problems and give them advice and medicine

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Who are clinical psychologists?

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Studies, assesses, and treats people with clinical disorders

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What is Psychiatry?

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Branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders, physicians who provide treatment

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What is phrenology?

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Franz Gall, the reading of bumps on ones head to determine their personality!

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